Wounded Warrior cuts workforce by 15 percent in wake of drop in donations

[TexasTowelie]

Wounded Warrior Project laid off 85 employees this week, including 32 at its home base of Jacksonville, as it sought to bring expenses in line with a more-than-20-percent plunge in donations.

The layoffs equated to about 15 percent of the non-profit’s nationwide workforce. While the overall number of employees is down, Wounded Warrior’s restructuring will be boosting staffing levels for certain programs such as mental-health services.

“A loss of any individual is a big blow,” CEO Mike Linnington said Friday. He said he does not think further reductions will be needed.

“We’re right-sized for the revenue we have,” he said. “We’re focused in the areas we want to be focused in. Now, it’s about continuing to focus on the warriors and do our very best to deliver the valuable programs and services they need.”

Read more: http://jacksonville.com/news/metro/2016-09-02/story/wounded-warrior-cuts-workforce-15-percent-wake-drop-donations

[LeftyMom]

1. Context:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/wounded-warrior-project-accused-of-wasting-donation-money/

[Lee-Lee]

2. They need a total revamp

They have been careless with donors money for a long time, and have stretched the definition of "wounded warrior" so far they are still wasting.

They need to be focused on core need of real wounded warriors and their families. Instead they are taking pretty much anyone with any military related illness and doing far more stuff like vacations and gatherings while many of the wounded and families struggle to pay bills- buy WWP is more geared around those junkets and trips.

I know someone who has been to a ranch in Wyoming for a weekend, for a week of cooking lessons from famous chefs in NYC, Disneyworld, and probably a dozen other places on WWP trips. He never deployed, and is "wounds" are a badly burned hand that was a direct result of him mishandling and misusing field cooking equipment in Georgia.