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Latest Updates Background: In February 2016 TPI issued a disqualification announcement regarding The Wounded Warrior Project based on four consecutive years of WWP’s failed and declining performance evaluation scores. Accordingly, WWP was barred from accreditation by...

Latest Updates Today (June 14th) commemorates an important day in our nation’s history in which our unwavering military presence began. The United States Army was founded as the Continental Army on June 14, 1775, in order to defend against the British and unite the...

Latest Updates San Diego, California – June 9, 2016– As widely reported by the national media, Presidential Candidate Donald Trump claimed that the delays of grants to dozens of nonprofit military organizations were substantially the result of needing to fully vet the...

Latest Updates ORT WORTH, Tex. — The dinner crowd was sparse for a downtown steakhouse, a handful of families and couples lost in conversations. Ryan Lundeby, 32, an Army Ranger with five deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, took in the scene from his table, seemingly...

Latest Updates Over $1.3 Million Now Given to Military Nonprofits Rancho Santa Fe, California- May 9, 2016 – The Patriots Initiative (TPI) announced its latest round of grants to military nonprofits totaling $70,000 to support America’s wounded and disabled veterans....

Latest Updates FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Army veteran Joe Aguirre opens a restaurant door, then steps aside to let his golden retriever take point. "Clear," Aguirre commands, and 3-year-old Munger pivots right, left, then right again, sweeping the room for potential...

Latest Updates San Diego, California– April 8, 2016 – Yesterday, California State Senator Joel Anderson awarded The Patriots Initiative (TPI) with the CA Senate Certificate of Recognition. This award was given in honor of TPI’s outstanding community service,...

Latest Updates By Lucy Schouten Due to the announcement of the Wounded Warrior Project firing their chief executive officer and chief operating officer, Christian Science Monitor reached out to The Patriots Initiative for clarity and insights on the matter. "Donors...

Latest Updates Reporter: Robert Burns “It’s going to take [the Wounded Warrior Project] a while... to regain the public’s trust and confidence, but it is important that they do,” stated Greg Hillgren, TPI’s chairman to Fox 5 News reporter Robert Burns. In this...

Latest Updates Statement by Greg Hillgren, Chairman of The Patriots Initiative San Diego, California– March 10, 2016– As reported by CBS News, the New York Times, Fox News and other media, the Wounded Warrior Project's CEO, Steven Nardizzi, and COO, Al Giordano,...

Latest Updates The Patriots Initiative has been on the forefront of media coverage throughout the beginning of 2016 due to the Wounded Warrior Project’s spending controversy. The Wounded Warrior Project is under immense scrutiny over their usage of funds, and The...

Latest Updates A San Diego nonprofit that evaluates military charities and recommends them for support is criticizing spending practices at the Wounded Warrior Project. The Patriots Initiative, which relies on both qualitative and quantitative research to judge the...

Latest Updates By Jeff McDonald of the San Diego Union Tribune The Wounded Warrior Project charity has been under much speculation due to their spending habits and usage of charitable donations. Since ABC news broke the story in late January, The Patriots Initiative...

Latest Updates The Patriots Initiative Disqualifies Military Charity from Donor List Media Contact:Eric Beach(949) 300-3342ebeach@frontlinestrat.com San Diego, California - February 19, 2016 - Amid new allegations of misuse of funds, The Patriots Initiative has...

Latest Updates Military Nonprofit Begins National Awareness Campaign Expanding its One-of-a-Kind Services to All 50 States San Diego, Calif.- July 4, 2015 - The Patriots Initiative (TPI), the only 501(c)(3) nonprofit of its kind to develop a proprietary process for...