To: Coleus
The Boy Scouts were formerly recipients of United Way funding. I don't know if they still are as I stopped donating to United Way long ago as they could offer no real documentable proof that my money was not going to some of the left wing organizations they support. Anyway, I doubt the Boy Scouts are still part of United Way.
Rather than contribute to United Way which funds many left wing, anti gun groups I suggest you tell the United Way how you feel about their member organizations and that all further contributions you would have given to UW will go to the Boy Scouts in the future.
To: nomorecameljocks
Yes, but why is this council in NJ allowing gays into scouting? For Money $$$. They are bucking National BSA and formed their own policy so they can fudraise easily and not deal with the issue at hand.
70 posted on
11/27/2002 8:57:12 PM PST by
Coleus
To: nomorecameljocks; Coleus
The Boy Scouts were formerly recipients of United Way funding. I don't know if they still are as I stopped donating to United Way long ago as they could offer no real documentable proof that my money was not going to some of the left wing organizations they support. Anyway, I doubt the Boy Scouts are still part of United Way.There are 1600 local United Way chapters in the U.S. About two dozen of them, or about 1.5%, have stopped funding BSA Councils over this matter. The rest are still doing so.
My own local Council is an exemplar of this. Eleven UW chapters have historically provided funding to our Council. One of them stopped doing so over this issue. The other 10 still provide funding to our Council, over $116,000 this last year.
71 posted on
11/29/2002 4:49:50 PM PST by
RonF
To: nomorecameljocks
Many have stopped or considerably recduced funding. You would be better off in just giving to the individual councils or troops.
75 posted on
11/29/2002 6:00:08 PM PST by
Coleus
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