Re: United Way
Thats not neccesarily true, suedeavids, United Way may take 1 percent but does a lot of work, in making sure that the charities it supports are legitimate, use their resources effectively, offers help for those charities beyond jsut financial endorsements to streamline their work to allow for more effecient running of specific charities. Some charities take off in excess of 80 percent of every dollar donated to go towards 'administrative costs' and some charities are jsut not well plot out, sometimes harming those they're trying to protect, are you going to take the time to look into where your 1 dollar donation is going to? For the most part peoples answer to that is no, so United Way does that for you. They may take their middleman cut, but that middleman cut is more like an investment than anything else. United Way provides more in services and accountability to local charities than that 1 percent would have gotten them anyways.
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