Throw Your Money Into The Street
My employer just sent out the following message to all employees. Your employer might send out a similar message:
2004 United Way Campaign...Count yourself In!
Our United Way campaign has started! I encourage you to give from the heart to make our communities safer and healthier because supporting United Way provides an easy, efficient, reliable way to lend a hand to those less fortunate in our communities....
Your gift can mean:
Aid to those - including [employees] - who have been battered by one hurricane after another in the southeast.
Transportation for senior citizens to their medical appointments.
Affordable child care for young families struggling to make ends meet.
Job training for bright youths who need a hand up.
Communities that are better, safer, healthier places for us to live and work.
United Way has the expertise that ensures that the right resources are deployed and lives begin to improve - person by person, community by community....
Thanks for all you are doing!
And it also means happy puppies, I'm sure.
For some reason, I believe that it is more efficient to give aid directly to the organizations that you want to receive the aid, rather than giving it to someone else and letting THEM decide where your money will go. If you give to one of these distributors, such as United Way, you might not get the results you anticipated:
The leader of Prince William County's Boys & Girls Club accused local United Way officials of betraying their commitment to help fund a new facility in Manassas by not giving the group any money from last year's local United Way fund drive....
In a letter sent to Anne Terrell, chairwoman of the Prince William United Way, and copied to local political leaders, Borello said it was unfair that most of the money raised went to only four agencies in the county and that the decision will place "many kids back into areas of at risk."
"It was also the United Way who told the City of Manassas that a large amount of what is collected in Manassas will support the Boys & Girls Club. My board of directors and I find it very disturbing that we held up our end of the deal and the word of the United Way was meaningless. That's a tragedy," he said in the July letter.
Local United Way officials said Tuesday that they have funded the club's Manassas facility to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars in previous years and that they would have loved to do so again but couldn't because last year's fundraising was a bust....
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