Phil Power: United Way 211's a great thing
The other day I got a call from some folks at the Michigan Association of United Ways saying they wanted to come and talk.
My reaction was, well, OK. But I wasn't all that excited. As I saw it, United Way folks have been an amiable standard-bearer and fundraiser for human services all over Michigan.
True, they've been high atop the list of do-gooder agencies. But they haven't exactly been blazing a new path in philanthropy. They've been kind of slow and a little old-fashioned. They've had a bewildering number of local chapters, especially in metropolitan Detroit.
So when Scott Dzurka, the head of the Michigan Association of United Ways, and Nancy Lindman, their communications director, walked in the door — well, frankly, I didn't expect much.
But guess what: An hour and a half later, my head was spinning with admiration. United Way officials really are getting their act together.
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The 211 program is good but could be better - it is also UW monopoly that in the long-term will damage social services. I can still walk down the street and find 20 out of 20 that have never heard of 211.
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