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haele Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-30-05 08:11 PM
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2. United Way is an umbrella organization.
You might check some of their local lists; many of the local charities they run are for things like local "stop gap" type charities: low income emergancy/critical care programs; at risk teen programs; programs for local children, disabled and/or elderly dealing with their welfare, advocacy, or education; emergancy shelters for domestic abuse; emergancy housing and housing services for the suddenly homeless or working poor; or for hospices and home care services.
The list also includes things like policy statements of the charity (I.E. - a charity will list what other organizational ties - religious or political and what sort of requirement the recipient of the charity needs to fulfill before they can recieve help) and how much of what they recieve ends up in overhead as opposed to how much gets disbursed to those who need the funds. Many of the local organizations United Way supports require a lot more than what they can recieve from United Way.

There might still be some concerns about use of money collected by the United Way, but I'm thinking that their listings might be of some interest to you.

Haele
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