btw— the NFL is a huge supporter of United Way, we should NICELY ask them to contact United Way and ask them to join us in our request...
Stopped giving to the UW way back when they caught whathisface flying around in luxury jets on the money I gave him.
Did you notice that ACORN on the second link stands for Alachua County Organization for Rural Needs, Inc.?
Good idea. I believe United Way also gets taxpayer dollars which are then doled out to various organizations.
I haven’t supported the United Way since they took the Boy Scouts off their partner list. Now I contribute directly to the Boy Scouts.
There’s a chick in my company heading a United Way campaign drive. I can’t wait until she asks me to donate.
Any organization (United Way) that wont support the Boy Scouts and supports Planned Parenthood in NYC and SF will never get my money.
Who supports the United Way?
Stopped donations to United way years ago, more money goes to the UW administration operations than to the people who need it the most.
Salvation Army is my choice now.
The company my husband used to work for used to encourage (hassle) the employees at the annual United Way meeting to donate from each pay check. So he would put down 5.00 just so they wold leave him alone.
I would make him cancel it each time also. I told him there is no way I’m donating to a company like that when the top people there are making 300K-40K + a year on our hard earned money.
I’m in Central Florida- have already emailed United Way! Thanks for the thread- time to put on the pressure!
I just did a quick google of who donates or has donated to ACORN and the list is getting longer and longer. Rotary clubs, women’s groups, Bank of America, SEIU, and just getting started. Is it worth making a list of smaller groups like Rotary Clubs?
The United Way is played for fools by everyone.
We've watched people who are able to contribute thousands through UW and stipulate a non-profit group to receive these funds with no record and without publicity with impunity.
Isn't this like money laundering? Because, the money is then invested in projects that directly benefit a "for profit" corp saving much expense that makes for better profits.
For example, a Land Trust or Conservancy is stipulated by an employee/employer to receive specific contributions. In turn the Land Trust/Conservancy acquires choice river front and then writes for a grant from Cal-Trans because they just upgraded a bridge upstream and some of our gas tax goes to "evironmental mitigation" by law.
With all that money mixed together, the L.T./Conservancy develops a whitewater rafting launch site for the local rafting corporations that pretty much makes this public land unuseable by the general public.
So, probably, the same type "revenue stream" has been flowing from United Way, secretly into the coffers of ACORN for malicious mischief making!!!
Two decades ago, the corporation I worked for began to turn very liberal at the top.
One of the things they pushed was the UW campaign. Cards to allow payroll deductions for UW were handed out by middle and top management in union thug manner at meetings. They didn’t even want you to take the card home. You were supposed to fill it out then and hand it back.
I refused and told my boss that neither my wife or I made any financial commitment like this to any charity without talking to each other. I got glares from my boss, his boss and the national boss when I refused to sign at that time.
I ended up sending the card in for a $/week deduction, the minimum.
The company’s headquarters were were in NJ and that was where the money went. We found out later that a large amount ended up in UW’s home office in Virginia. Then the scandal broke:
“A scandal tarnished the United Way’s image in 1992. William Aramony, the president of United Way of America since 1970, was indicted on charges of appropriating at least $600,000 of the association’s money to support a lavish lifestyle, including limousine rides and relations with a mistress. Hundreds of member agencies temporarily cut their ties with the national organization. In the wake of the scandal, United Way of America adopted a code of ethics and created a committee to monitor the agency’s conduct. It also implemented tighter financial controls. In 1995 Aramony was convicted on 25 felony counts and sentenced to seven years in prison.”
I mailed a copy of an article exposing the scandal to payroll and told them to cancel my weekly deduction with copies to my bosses at all levels.
Afterwards, I carried copies of that article and a copy of our legit IRS charity donations to have if I was challenged for not donating. The next year when the annual thug hit for UW was coming at a meeting, I gave my new boss at the time a copy of the above and asked to be excused from the meeting. I was excused and not bothered.
Since then the gays who run UW have done terrible things to the BSA. Planned parenthood gets money, and who knows if Acorn has been funded.
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just checked my local UW... partners include Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, and Salvation Army. No Acorn.
I’m in Ga.
We need to keep the pressure up - I suspect United Way supports ACORN and other organizations just as corrupt.