D.C. UNITED WAY
December 29, 2005 | Read Time: 1 minute
About 150 nonprofit organizations were dropped from the United Way fund-raising campaign in the Washington metropolitan area this year or decided not to reapply after the organization tightened enforcement of its admission standards, reports The Washington Post. The United Way said it had repeatedly notified the charities of omissions in their applications or lost paperwork before excluding them from the drive, but some organizations complained they had never been warned about their applications’ shortcomings. “It’s devastating for us,” said Elaine Rogers, president of the USO of Metropolitan Washington, which expects to lose about $100,000 because it was excluded from the United Way campaign.
