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Article: Salvation Army Cuts Local Link To United Way
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- The Washington Post
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- July 20, 1996
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The Salvation Army's National Capital and Virginia division
said yesterday that it is severing ties with the local United Way
because recent changes in United Way fund-raising undercut
traditional inner-city social services.
The decision ends a 48-year relationship between the agencies,
said Lt. Col. Warren Fulton, the Salvation Army division's
commander.
Under United Way's new system, more nonprofit groups qualify
to draw on the pool of donations, and individual donors are
permitted to restrict their gifts to a favorite charity or to one
geographic location. United Way says the approach is more inclusive
and responds to what donors wanted.
But the impact on traditional social ...