RE: United Way Supports Anti-Nukes

[M Nivas <motnivas@YAHOO.COM>]

Peter you are exactly correct!  When I was @oak ridge

national lab - this is exactly the way united way

worked. You could earmark your donation for one

charity and they would take the  other people's

unspecified amounts and donate itfill fil  in that gap

that they already apportioned for.



One question for all who worked at national

labs.(please respond off-line) Was anyseverelyerly

pressured to give to the UW by esection-headhead (and

division head)?  At ORNL they wanted 100% of their

people to give and usually got it.  If not you were

particularly harassed by numerous others in their

section.  This was especially true in the late 1970 s

and 1980s.



This is why I donate only to groups I want to , not to

the united way.



By the way isn't protesting nuclear power plants

lobbying the government?????



--- "Vernig, Peter G." <Peter.Vernig@MED.VA.GOV>

wrote:

> I hesitate to mention it.  But a scandal of a few

> years ago was that the

> United Way was not, in fact honoring their donor's

> wishes.  That is if a

> donor said they wanted 100% of their donation to go

> to the American Red

> Cross the following happened.  If ARC was in UW's

> opinion or intention to

> get either 1% of total contributions or say $1M, the

> contributions of our

> ARC friend would be applied to ARC and subtracted

> from the total dollars

> allocated and the none ear marked donations would

> them be split up according

> to UW's master plan so the ARC would be no better

> off because their friends

> had designated all or part of their contributions go

> to them.  

> 

> I am unsure if this was the whole US United Way or a

> Regional subdivision

> possibly just Colorado but my impression was it was

> either national or a

> major region.

> 

> United Way's image was greatly tarnished by that and

> the concurrent issue of

> the Director's compensation and perks.  Those two

> scandals led to a dramatic

> decline in contributions for at least a couple of

> years.

>



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