
For a long time, from summer of 2002 in Orlando, past the Las Vegas conference, the first trade a long, to the second one, on to the third one and so on....alot of people who believed in the slogans would ask.....Where are the donations? This blog has been asking that question since the first day it was published....Where is the beef? Then along came Peregine Charities and PFG and everything was going to be handled by "them'. Two workshops in 2005, one in Denver and one in the Lone Star state brought us these letters that were proudly posted on the WoodiesCCIClub website to show the world that it wasn't someone in the cookie jar.

Wow, it looked great, finally we saw for the first time in over 3 years that..YES, indeed money was going to help the kids as promised. Well, that was 2005 and it's now 2008 and in the last 3 years.....silence......so being the guy who asks questions since the brown shirts in the Woodies CCI Club went out of their way to make my life a living hell, I thought.....maybe I should take a look and see what is out there...in this little cyper world we live in. The first stop was to check out the charity on the letterhead. Peregrine Charities is registered in Illinois so I started there.

Anytime you want to read what is in the pictures, just click them on as you follow along......yes they are good to go......

Well, well you can actually see their filings and also their annual report that is filed with the State of Illinois. For the period starting on 01/01/05 right to the end of the year...12/31/05, so we have the right return anyways....now you can visit the link at the top of each picture if you want to check it out yourself.....

We come to Part XV, the supplementary information and listed are two charities that Peregrine Charities gave money to, Don Duncan Family Foudation in Las Vegas, NV and of course the Make-a-Wish Foundation in Phoenix, AZ. But wait, I thought the letter were from Denver and Irving not the MAW of America. Hummmm, that doesn't add up, I mean why won't it have been entered as giving $11,625.66 to the Denver chapter and
$14,141.45 to the North Texas chapter instead of the main office in Phoenix. Just a question, but I have to think you would be very careful on what you would put on an annual report to the government and sign it....won't you?
So I went one step more and checked out the Don Duncan Family Foundation in Neveda and got this email back after spending an hour and not finding anything about it in Neveda......

YIKES.....no entries.......which means that they "COULD" possibly be in our archival database for "FAILING TO FILE" for more then 10 years....no that doesn't sound good does it? So let's check out the Make-a-Wish database on donors......

Make-a-Wish ends their year on August 31st, so that means that any donation made after August 31, 2005 would be in their 2006 annual report. Both workshop and letters were after that cut off date and according to the annual report filed with the State of Illinois the amount was $35,392.00, but, looking at the 2006 donors list for contributions of over $25,000.00 there is "NO" mention of this donation. Now I know what you might be thinking, yea...I bet they are in the 2005 report and he is just bad mouthing our hero....he wouldn't do this. Well, check it out dude....check it out.
So what do you believe, who is telling the truth, who is using smoke and mirrors to squrriel away cash from the workshops. You can visit the Make-a-Wish annual press releases by typing in "make a wish 2006 annual" or even "make a wish 2005 annual" and it's was the third one down on my google search engine. Why isn't there any mention of either Peregrine Charities, (which up to this point, I thought was beyond reproach(, Ken Woods or the Woodies CCI CLub. And now, everyday the push is on to get everyone to buy the DVD box set so that the money can go to the kids......and I ask WHO'S KIDS????
WAKE UP FOLKS.......if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, most likely it ain't going to lay you a golden egg anytime soon.