I loved the local reaction to United Way campaign drives when living near Detroit. The local "rural" UW chapters would remind their members to designate where their monies went...the local UW chapters, not the Detroit ones filled with HIV positive crackheads.
Well, I don't object to the idea of a non-profit clearinghouse for local charities,
in theory.
The problem is that liberals, dirty commie thieves that they are, smell that money and latch onto those organizations like stink on a monkey.
We donate as directly as possible now.