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Ddays said:
When you see how much actually goes to the overhead & administrative costs and what gets to the folks in need, thats a big negatory for me. Local charities for me as well
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We used to have a strong push every year while I was in the Marine Corps for the Combined Federal Campaign. It was strictly voluntary but 100% mandatory to contribute. Got a booklet each time that broke down who you could contribute to and the percentage that went to said organizations overhead. That was enough to make me realize that contributions when the plate was passed each Sunday morning at church was a much wiser investment.
I still gave the voluntary required minimum to the CFC, but begrudgingly so.
 
Aceisback said:
We used to have a strong push every year while I was in the Marine Corps for the Combined Federal Campaign. It was strictly voluntary but 100% mandatory to contribute. Got a booklet each time that broke down who you could contribute to and the percentage that went to said organizations overhead. That was enough to make me realize that contributions when the plate was passed each Sunday morning at church was a much wiser investment.
I still gave the voluntary required minimum to the CFC, but begrudgingly so.
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In private business, "donations" to United Way were/is a thing. Almost all employers seem to participate in this. I still remember at my first (small) employer, a co-worker was provided with my private pay data and informed me of my "fair share" contribution. I turned in my form (since it was mandatory) but did not contribute since I was very poor.

Later at a (very large) employer, there was a mandate that all employees had to turn in their United Way contribution forms. The vice presidents had a competition for who's organization would make the largest percentage contribution (with penalties for the losers). I failed to turn in my form and was hounded by HR and management (for several weeks) untill I saw that it could be bad for my future job prospects and turned it in.

Charity organizations which operated independent of United Way had a really hard time given the almost monopoly on the charitable giving, and United Way's hostile actions against organizations which were not yet members of their umbrella organization.
 
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