United Way is the biggest scam in charity outside the Clinton Foundation. They are just a middleman getting their 15% cut in exchange for some corporation getting a seal of approval. In the age of the internet there is no reason for the United Way to exist.
Good riddance to sever ties with the United Gay. They lost my support over a decade ago.
The SA needs to tune up the tubas and mount focus on street-corner evangelism.
United way keeps 85% of all money to run itself and fund-raise for more money...
I despise United Way. When I was in the USN back in the Seventies, they pressured us to give money to the United Way, and young sailors didn’t make that much. I very much resented it.
Love the Salvation Army, though...
Another reason not to donate to United Way, but to go directly to the Salvation Army, with its extremely low overhead.
United way is a terrible way to donate. Give direct to the charities you support.
We never give to the United Way. Their overhead is far too high.
The United Way is never deserving of anyone’s money. They are a middleman between the donor and the service provider. And they have dramatically moved very far away from their original purpose, which was to simply consolidate the fund raising efforts of several large charitable service providers, to effect an organizational efficiency and eliminate duplication of fund raising efforts.
I’m disappointed to learn SA took any money from United Way.
My last, 50-person company discussed setting up a UW drive. The reaction was strong - No, No and No. Some people were surprised at the animosity to UW, especially the young people. The older majority had been through the high-pressure drives in big companies before, and wanted nothing to do with it.
The BSA helped form United Way, and they were the first to get shivved. Now the SA. Interesting it wasn’t Red Cross. They are another outfit that isn’t up to par.
Years ago I was talking to my management team about making donations. I said we should give to SA, the one openly gay guy was vehemently opposed to that. Fags hate the Salvation Army. That right there spoke volumes to me. All donations went to Salvation Army. Do not give a penny to united way. It is a scam.
Easy to figure. Salvation Army = Christian charity. United Way = Secular scam that is increasingly hostile to Christianity.
Salvation Army should cut ties and find better partners.
The United Way runs their Charity organization like the Mafia. When I worked for hourly wages in my youthful and reckless years, they used the company management as a tool to demand participation and it was not optional. The threat that was leveed was that your non participation would be noted during your annual review.
Years later I told a Partner at a firm I was working at that I wasn't going to give to United Way because I had a penniless relative that need the money more. The Partner put me down for $2,500 that I never pledged. I never paid it, but they still tried to squeeze it out of me.
There's a long list of expletives I'd like to add here but I like Free Republic and will respect the rules.
United Way...big a scam as the Clinton Foundation
Give direct
This is why I donate directly to the Salvation Army and give nothing to United Way.
Why is the Salvation Army partnering with the United Way in the first place. . .like everything else these days. . .they have forgotten their roots. I have noticed their Salvation message waning over the years.
Funny how reality keeps proving us right. Have always favored SA or United Way!