“When the Boy Scouts controversy hit the fan, I wrote a response to the annual appeal telling them why I would not give any money to the United Way. I assume many many others did too. By the next year, the United Way was out and all employees could personally select from a list of hundreds of organizations to give money to, and the firm would match.
Now, instead of going to the Boy Scout hating United Way (which kept about 30% of donations for “overhead”), my donation goes directly to my town’s volunteer ambulance corps.
The Boy Scout controversy basically killed the United Way and allowed real charities to avoid paying the charity tithe to those liberal parasites. “
I did the same thing. In fact, I wrote a check direct to our local Boy Scout council. United Way was big in the 1990s now they are trying to reconfigure how they do business. Proof that individual action does have an effect.
So did I. Prior to my retirement, I went to some trouble to identify a Boy Scout Council that just happened to be in Idaho. The donations amounted to about $400 per year and were matched by my employer. United Way can be as liberal as they want. But they get to do without my support.