[anton]

United Way does not honor your requests for gifts to be specifically designated. If the donor named organization is a member of the local United Way chapter, the designated gift is simply part of the previously allocated amount. If the donor named organization is not a member of teh local United Way chapter, the gift goes to United Way's general fund.

Each member agrees not to engage in competitive fund raising with United Way as the price of membership. thus they become utterly dependent upon United Way. Where is the anti-trust aspects of this addressed? Nowhere!

[RonF]

Each member agrees not to engage in competitive fund raising with United Way as the price of membership. thus they become utterly dependent upon United Way.

Actually, they just agree not to fund raise during the time of year that the UW is running it's fund-raising drive. The rest of the year they are free to fundraise.