Homeless Advocate can’t account for funds donated

This gets me very angry. I tried for the last couple of years to raise enough in donations to cover my expenses the right way and ended up losing. I traveled a lot, but now I don't go unless someone pays for me to come. I just can't afford to do it anymore. The money I paid out of my pocket ended up being a deduction for the organization I belonged to and I couldn't find any financial support. That is why the PayPal link is gone. I am still not sure if I'll open another account or attempt to have a non-profit of my own ever again. I lost over a $1,000 every year but here is someone accused of doing it the wrong way but getting support. Maybe it is true that it is not what you know, but who you know because even if he knew how to work the system, he would have to have had someone supporting him, giving him publicity and connections to raise funds. So who was behind this charity giving him support and how do they feel about this report?

Homeless Advocate can’t account for funds donated to help the Homeless – Part-1
March 27, 2011 posted by Terry Richards

ST. PETERSBURG, FL – The Rev. Bruce Wright, a well-known local Homeless Advocate who has been soliciting donations for many years under the guise that they were IRS 501(c)(3) Tax-Exempt Charities whose programs are supposed to help the poor and homeless, including homeless Veterans, who when asked by this Reporter, could not or would not produce IRS Forms 990 or any other Financial Statements nor any kind of Registration of these Charities with the IRS and Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDOACS) WHICH IS REQUIRED BY IRS AND Florida Charity Laws. The responses I received from Wright are set forth below at the end of this story.

A search for Wright’s most recent 2011 Incorporated Non-Profit called the REFUGE COLLECTIVE found that it’s only registered with The Florida Secretary of State as a Non-Profit Corporation but is not registered with the IRS or FDOACS.

Additionally, a search for Refuge Ministries and The Refuge for which Wright is well-known in associating, and advertising and soliciting donations, are not registered with the FDOACS or IRS. And Sanctuary Youth Center which Wright advised me in one of his e-mail responses below are not listed under the auspices of the Florida Baptist Convention which Wright told they were.

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Homeless Advocate can’t account for funds donated