pmaguire
Registered: 07/18/08
Posts: 14
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An employee of a large grocery chain in Orlando Florida that has a reputation for "strongly encouraging" its employees to give to the United Way asked UWUW what we thought of the United Way in his area. Here's our response:
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You'd be smart not to support Heart of Florida United Way (Orlando area) and send any gifts you can spare directly to your charities instead. According to HFUW's latest tax return, for the year ending June 30, 2007, they took in $22,297,184. But of that amount they only sent $11, 706,185 to local charities. That's an effective overhead rate of almost 50 percent!!!
Where's the rest of the money? Let's see. President & CEO: $213,973 salary, $39,442 benefits, $14,400 expense account. Etc.
Here's something else interesting. More than 40 percent of its donors don't trust HFUW to make the allocation decision for them. United Way allocations account for only $6,849,719 of the $11,706,185 sent out to local charities. Donors designated $4,105,930.
That fact probably explains why, if you go to http://www.hfuw.org, you'll see that beginning this fall the Heart of Florida United Way is abandoning the old allocation to United Way member charities model and moving to the new model suggested by United Way of America that we talk about on the web site (www.theuntiedway.org). Meaning, for anyone giving this fall, that United Way won't tell you in advance what charities will benefit. Charities now have to request grants, like the foundation model, and United Way will only fund grants in two categories of service next year. That means that a whole lot of charities you used to support with your United Way gift will now lose that support.
I've attached the relevant pages of the tax return documenting the above. Feel free to share it. Your colleagues are being sold a bill of goods and deserve to know the facts.
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