if indeed at all
I ask because I have been playing some of the most recent call of duty with my little brother (so yes I know activision, call of duty ugh but it's my little brother) and recently there has been some event to do with the aforementioned charity that apparently aids veterans and I was wondering if anyone here has any knowledge about this
I am also asking as someone not from the USA
Not at all lol, it's a wholly useless puff piece.
Here is CODE's 990 for 2022. Page 11 has the charitable grants and contributions.
Most of the money is going organizations that claim to be helping vets. Would need to dig more into the various charities to see if they actually accomplish more than 'bringing awareness' to an issue.
They paid out more than a million dollars for 'consultation' by various orgs (Page 7) but none of the board members or trustees are receiving any pay (Page 6).
3 million in admin expenses vs ~10 million in grants paid out. How legit is that? No idea without more research, but I would not trust any company with Bobby Kotick at the helm.
All of it went to veteran job placement organizations. While commendable, is the type of charity where the money goes towards service based operations. Any vocational training I assume would be done thru partnerships which can also be very incestuous.
two big orgs they gave millions to Hire Heroes USA pay their CEO 350k and COO 270k. While VetJobs compensation missing either the top guys are doing it for free or the information is not available their revenue is 3.9 million while expenses are 3.5 million. Pretty much spending as much as they take in.
For the purpose of job placement for vets. I don't want to go into the logistics of it but from what I read from their pages it's job placement. VetJobs offers training but not vocational, more transitional. Again I'm assuming from the ten minutes I looked into it bulk of their expense goes to staffing.
What's my point, none really, I'm not a fan of charities to began with and charities providing services rather than goods is the ideal way to funnel money and provide jobs to some useless art major who happens to be some congressman's daughter, who'll owe you a favor.
Not calling them scams, but job placement for vets when most companies have policies and initiatives, not to mention government incentives, to hire vets, it's like hosting a summer camp for NBA players to improve their layup.
I think a lot of these charities also only reach out to helping veterans who've recently come out of active service. Like within a year.
Which leaves a lot of veterans from previous active service out of luck, even if they've received any kind of serious injuries or damage from conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
And I'd wager that a lot of these charities "only" became a thing long after those conflicts had started to settle down.
Always assume any charity pimped out is a Komen.
St Jude and Ronald McDonald are okay. Medical procedures and research for kids who can’t afford it, and paying for families to stay at hotels near their hospitalized kids.
If a charity doesn’t score like 99% on any random charity rater, it’s a grift.