Donations for children of veterans are a profit pipeline for chain of thrift stores

The suit alleged the foundation put 10 collection bins in parking lots in northwest Arkansas.The suit accused Renfroe and Taylor of violating the state's Deceptive Trades Practices Act. It said the donations collected under the name Children of Veterans Foundation were sold to Taylor's for-profit company, Give Back to Freedom."The actual use of the donated items to support a for-profit organization is not consistent with the intent of the donors.The company already has established relationships with a number of large brand-name chains,Wedding stationery giving itself an in at thousands of well-known locations across the U.S., and it recently launched Payment Code to allow for better integrations with merchants' existing systems. ... The containers are diverting donations from legitimate charitable organizations," the lawsuit stated.The attorney general said neither Children of Veterans nor Give Back to Freedom was registered with the state, a violation of law."Renfroe and Taylor have used their positions with Children of Veterans to improperly divert goods … meant to aid veterans," the lawsuit said. "Rather than help veterans, these funds have been used to personally enrich themselves." 

Renfroe and Taylor would not discuss the case. Davidson said they are trying to "get to the bottom" of what happened.Commissioner McCammack met him with general comments Catsuits, "I'm all for this dock; working together we can make it happen, but does it have to be this fall?"But only a handful of unmanned ground systems were shown,Leather Corsets and they were based on technology half a decade old."We've got that working through our attorney here in town," Davidson said.Davidson is not named in the lawsuit, which is ongoing.Charity watchdog groups say clothes and donated household items are hard to track and easy to abuse.Borochoff said some non-profits collect clothes in the name of causes only to sell the items overseas, where there is a strong market for used clothes. He said clothes that can't be sold are marketed to wholesale companies that buy the clothes in bulk and sell them to make rags. He said the people profiting from these transactions have little overhead because the clothes were donated. 

Borochoff said there is nothing wrong with profiting from the sale of clothes overseas, so long as the profit from donations ends up with the charity soliciting the donations."When you donate stuff, you get the impression that you are donating to a charity," Borochoff said. "The people who could feel as if they are getting ripped off are the people who think they are donating to a charity ... not a business."Davidson acknowledged that his companies profit from overseas sale of clothes."What does not sell in stores, Epic sells to Atlas in bulk by the pound for in turn selling to the wholesaler market," he said in his statement. "The surplus, non-usable items get recycled and provided to wholesalers to purchase, such as the wipers rags and grinders industries."