A tech firm donated half a million dollars in Montgomery County, Maryland, to help homeless vets get off the streets. TISTA Science and Technology Corp is an information technologies professional group which serves the government, the armed forces, and the healthcare community. Its founder Ahmedur Ali is a navy veteran who was disabled in the […]
Survivor Winner Mike Gabler is donating his whole million dollar prize to veterans. Mike Gabler won the 43rd season of the hit reality show Survivor on Wednesday night. Moments after his win he showed his real quality, announcing that the million dollar prize, every penny of it, would be donated to help veterans in need […]
Handmade wood canes help restore dignity to veterans, with the generosity of an Indiana couple. Joe Ferrell and his wife Sue have long family trees buried in soldiers’ cemeteries, including Sue’s son, Donald, who joined the army after 9/11 and died only a year after coming back from his final deployment. Donald, like many veterans, […]
Joe Walsh, who played in the 1970s hit band the Eagles, has created a new charity that will benefit U.S. military veterans. The charity, called VetsAid, will fund organizations that provide physical, mental, and emotional care to service members and their families. Giving veterans the support they need is an issue that hits close to […]
Photo credit: Joseph Sohm / Shutterstock.com Back in January, instead of attending a debate, Donald Trump held a fundraiser for veterans’ charities. Supposedly, it raised about $6 dollars, with Trump having donated $1 million himself, though until very recently, most of that money had yet to be given to any charities. Trump’s campaign manager claimed […]
Military veterans are, sadly, some of the most in need of support from nonprofits, but lately there have been a number of veteran’s charities coming under fire for not doing right by the people they’re supposed to be helping. The Wounded Warrior Project has seen the most press, after the CEO and COO were fired […]
Image via Joseph August / Shutterstock.com Former President George W. Bush charged a veterans’ group, Helping a Hero, $100,000 to speak at an event held in 2012. His wife, former First Lady Laura Bush received $50,000, and they were flown there in a private jet which cost another $20,000. All told, the charity spent $170,000 to […]
Quadriga, a direct-mail fundraising company that sent solicitations on behalf of a disabled veterans charity but took in most of the money raised, will pay $9.7 million in damages, re-organize its board, and reform its practices as part of a $24.6 million settlement, according to the state attorney general’s office. The Disabled Veterans National Foundation […]
Bob Woodruff is perhaps best known as a co-anchor of World News Tonight, a position he took up just shortly before the near-tragedy that almost took his life. While reporting from Iraq, Woodruff was injured by a roadside bomb. He experienced a near-fatal brain injury, spent over a month in a coma, underwent several surgeries, […]
