March 12, 1998
Overlap in Numbers Makes It Hard to Total Up On-the-Job Donations
Figuring out how much money is really raised each year through on-the-job fund-raising drives is more complicated than it might first appear.
That is because competing organizations sometimes lay claim to the same dollars when reporting their totals.
United Way of America, for example, says that its network of roughly 1,400 independent United Ways raised $3.25-billion during the 1996-97 campaigns, and that preliminary estimates indicate that United
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