What happened a while back with the national United Way guy who took money, Bill Aramony?
Many people still mistakenly believe that local United Way’s are chapters of United Way of America. That is not true nor has it ever been true. Each local United Way is, and has always been, run by local volunteers. Each United Way raises money locally and distributes that money to fund local programs that help people in their communities. United Way of Central New Mexico was founded in 1934 as the Albuquerque Community Chest. Since that time local volunteers have run the organization for the sole benefit of the people of this community. Bill Aramony did more to harm local communities than can be easily measured. In 1992 he was President of United Way of America, a national trade association for 1,100 local United Ways across America. He was fired and later convicted of misusing national funds for his personal benefit. He was sent to prison for 7 years and was released in September 2001. Though none of the misused funds came from our community, unfortunately, local United Ways continue
