In our research NATIONAL VETERANS SERVICE FUND comes at 8th number to be the America's Worst Charity (We look at the details and Rank the Charities on the basis of Cash that they paid to Solicitors in the past decade).
Lets see why ...
OUR RANK: # 8
National Service Fund Veterans posts on its website that "War does not only ends on the battlefield." The site continues to say, US veterans and their families were left without help they need to overcome psychological problems at home and critical health.
National Veterans Service Fund said that they offer proper guidance to veterans to help them qualify for the aid they otherwise would lost. It also boasts the "limited medical assistance" the organization provides to veterans in need.
These promises helped to convince donors contacted by telephone and emails to provide $ 70 million over the last decade. The profit paid solicitors who raise this money kept more than half. On average, the charity gave assistance of value at approximately $ 500,000 per year for vets in need.
The percentage given to professional solicitors increased much over time. In 2011, the charity has raised approximately $ 9 million and professional solicitors kept around 82 percent of the total amount.
Philip Kraft, chairman of the National Veterans Service Fund, said that his charity provides grocery store gift cards , buys wheelchairs and pays rent for veterans in need. But no details of the subsidies are reported in an annual IRS filings, which only relate to expenditures on "aid veterans and relief."
The only cash grant which was mentioned in 2011 IRS filings is that the charity doanted $ 60,000 to the birth defect group for children in Orlando.
Betty Mekdeci, president of the Florida charity, said that the grant was a great help.
Kraft was paid $ 118,800 in the year of 2011. He is leading the group since 1989. He defended the use of professional solicitors to raise money for the National Veterans Service Fund. According to him "Blaming a charity for the price paid to our fundraisers is like to blame a driver for the price of gas".
Kraft said his organization has another full-time employee and three part-time partners to help veterans across the country. Despite of the millions raised in the charity's name, the charity does not help veterans in need to seek help on its website. It is not affordable, Kraft said.
Actually it all depends on the social workers to help us suggest worthy recipients and considers itself last resort assistance. Kraft said in an interview.
He further said that "We must have somebody at their (the veterans) site who make sure that they would receive all the resources in their region, with names and proper reasons for rejection, before you even think to refuse to help."
04/16/2016 7:48 pm