From: Lonnie Carter, CEO Santee Cooper
Board Chair, Trident United Way
Bill Moody, Community Investment Chair,
Trident United Way
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As Chairman of Trident
United Way's Board of Directors and Trident
United Way's Community Impact Committee,
respectively, we wanted you to have all the facts concerning Trident United Way's
(TUW) relationship with the ScoutReach program of The Coastal Carolina
Council, Boy Scouts of America.
It is not typical that
TUW comments publicly on programs that it does not fund. However the Boy Scouts
are engaged in a systematic campaign to discredit TUW's outcome-focused grant
making process and to seek direct contributions through our campaign. This
requires us to state our position publicly, particularly since no one at the
Boy Scouts has contacted either of us.
TUW demands high levels
of fiscal accountability and program measurement from all the programs that we
fund. That is the "value add" and the reason that so many people like you
support TUW.
The attached fact sheetis an accurate chronological description of the way TUW volunteers went through
our difficult decision-making process. For decades TUW has funded the Boy
Scouts' ScoutReach program. We have great admiration and support of the many
wonderful Boy Scout volunteers who make scouting available to kids in our
community.
If you have questions or
comments you can always contact us or Chris
Kerrigan, President and CEO, Trident United Way at ckerrigan@tuw.org.
More information.
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