just read this on another board.
united way of america has a national donation number assigned to the brady center.{brady bill bunch}. your donations to the united way are helping fund the brady guys.{along with your taxes but that is another story}.
can you believe that crap! i read it on the marlin board under big bores. i went over there to see the ingobwetrust story. geez.
i worked for fedex for a number of years and every year they came in with there song and dance. world wide fedex has an option for employees to have thier donation taken out of thier check every week. couple a bucks here and there.
no mention ever to me from the salesman for united way that they were using my money to help the government remove my rights and my guns. i am pissed.
please forward this to any board you might think can use it.
adios
woofer

I stopped giving anything to the United Way once they stopped supporting the Boy Scouts. I also stopped giving anyting to Make A Wish, once they stopped giving dying kids a chance to go on the hunting trip of their dreams. (And yes, I used to give to both of them.)

I've always said no way to the United Way as it is an organization that sees itself as having a monopoly in the charity business. It frequently edges out all other legitimate charities, particularly if they are of some religious affiliation, when they dare encroach on UW turf by trying, themselves, to help people. The UW, while it does provide some good services, is all about raising millions of dollars every year in its "corporate coercion campaigns". I wouldn't be surprised if they're somehow in bed with the Brady Center.

There is something suspect in "helping" being a primary motivation; it first assumes to know the better of any condition. The human element is too easily lost.

They also give your money to PETA !

Not to mention how they pad their pockets with portions of the donations. Look at how many problems they have had with CEOs, management, and the mysterious disappearance of money. Maybe I'm wrong, but there just seems to be something wrong about someone making hundreds of thousands of dollars while working for a supposed charity organization. I refuse to give them my money!

Makes me mad as HELL!!! After nearly 26 years in the military I can tell you firsthand about their coercive tactics and "corporate" manipulation. Talk about corruption, just investigate how much of the monies contributed actually ever gets to the needy versus how much goes into their own coffers to 'cover administrative costs.' if you think Enron was crooked really take a look at these people. It's been years since they got a penny of my money and it'll be a cold day in 'you-know-where! before they ever get another red cent. Enough said on this subject! Questions anyone!

Garry (NM Bassman)

I'm with Calif on this one... I used to give my "fair share" and more every year... until they with held funds from the Boy Scouts because they wouldn't let homosexuals participate. To me, a charitable organization is not supposed to attempt to promote a political agenda, nor are they supposed to engage in "social engineering".. They haven't gotten a dime from me since... and every time my company comes to me and asks for my money.. I tell them "no way" and explain exactly why. I get all kinds of excuses, like "well, this money all goes to our LOCAL chapter, and they don't support the same things the NATIONAL chapter does".... this is not good enough for me.... until the United Way publicly renounces their political agenda, I will never give to them again. We need to be more aware of where our "charitable donations" are going.....

Back in the 1990's I dont remember exactly what year when the UW had the scandal about missuse of funds I cut out the article from the paper. Then when the company came around pimping for the UW that piece of paper was my donation. Jim.

This information was told to me by someone who supposedly knew, so take it for what it is worth (speculation and 3rd hand information).
I mentioned that I designated by contribution so I KNEW where it was going. I was told that the local committee sets up the percentages they plan to give to each organization and "designated" dollars are just shuffled accordingly.

If we talk about funds being abused/siphoned, many of the organizations we donate to would likely be found guilty of "significant" administrative costs!

LouisB

A national law that made all organizations solicting funds for charity, state in the first line of the solicitation what their administrative costs were would be nice. I guess creative accountants and lawyers could take care of that rather quickly!

All just opinions of course.

I also withdrew my contributions to our (H.A.L. ) corporate annual "Employee Charitable Contribution Campaign" when the United Way joined the persecution of the morally straight, but this year found out that my payroll deductions could be directed to whatever group I chose and 'the company' would cover any administrative costs. So, I restarted my contribution and mandated that ALL of the money go directly to the local Boy Scout Council. I saved all of the documentation stating that none of my contribution will go to the United Way(ward) and will be checking with the folks at the council to be sure that it happens.

I'm not sure I wouldn't be happy to catch these degenerate creeps in an(other) fraud; in any case, the young men in the Monterey Bay area will have a well funded opportunity to learn the value of honor & duty (and have a little boyish fun).

I have just spoken with my representative at the local American Cancer Society, as they want me to sponsor their annual walk again.

According to that representative, they ARE NOT an arm of the United Way.

Happily, I shall continue to sponsor all of their walks provided they too do not put monies towards the anti-constitutionalist crowds.

With United Way, you can indeed designate where your money goes. This gives the convincing illusion that something has changed, when, in fact, it has not.

This does NOT change the amount of money that various recipients get. It just lets them claim that none of YOUR money went to Brady. Brady still gets the same amount, and, regardless of whatever fiction they issue, your money is commingled with whatever Brady got.

A few years ago one of the UW reps was at my work location to solicit funds for our local UW and I asked the question how much of my money gos to the charity I designated to and he said 100% but what he didn't say was the portion that my company matched my donation was used to pay for adminstrative costs then any left would go to the general pool,(of course I fount this out later).
and also this rep said that all the charities they solicit funds for only get a certion % of the total received in the local UW, so if one charity gets designated say 50% of the donations they do not get 50%, they only get the % set for this charity by the local UW. I havent given to UW since the late 70's. I give my donations directly to the Charity.
Albert

Someone mentioned not contributing to the Make-A-Wish Foundation and I thought I would give an option. I support Make-A-Wish for what they do but will not give them any money becasue of their anti-hunting rules. If you want to make a difference for kids, consider the Hunt of a Lifetime Organization. It hasn't been around for very long but they are doing excellent work picking up where Make-a-wish left off. They specialize in hunting and fishing related wishes for terminally ill children. Check out the website at www.huntofalifetime.org. It's good to see someone willing to be unpopular and just grant wishes to kids.