{"id":1271,"date":"2008-06-09T16:06:06","date_gmt":"2008-06-09T14:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/general\/brian-a-gallagher-of-the-united-way-is-responsible-for-giving-away-4bn-per-year.html"},"modified":"2008-06-09T16:06:06","modified_gmt":"2008-06-09T14:06:06","slug":"brian-a-gallagher-of-the-united-way-is-responsible-for-giving-away-4bn-per-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=1271","title":{"rendered":"Brian A Gallagher of the United Way is responsible for giving away $4bn per year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"zemanta-img\" style=\"margin: 1em; float: right; display: block;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Image:Uwa_logo_for_electronic_presentation.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/e\/e6\/Uwa_logo_for_electronic_presentation.jpg\/202px-Uwa_logo_for_electronic_presentation.jpg\" alt=\"United Way of America\" style=\"border: medium none ; display: block;\"\/><\/a><span class=\"zemanta-img-attribution\" style=\"margin: 1em 0pt 0pt; display: block;\">Image via <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Image:Uwa_logo_for_electronic_presentation.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/span><\/span>I just had lunch with Brian A Gallagher, President and CEO of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_Way_of_America\" title=\"United Way of America\" rel=\"wikipedia\" class=\"zem_slink\">United Way<\/a> and I was surprised to find out that United Way gives away $4bn per year of which half of that money is given away outside of the United States.  As you may know America as a country is extremely stingy when it gets to US <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aid\" title=\"Aid\" rel=\"wikipedia\" class=\"zem_slink\">Foreign Aid<\/a> as a percentage of GDP.  The European Union is a much larger international donor than USA.  But what I wonder is how the figures would add up if you start including as US foreign aid US private donations.  I certainly think that the efforts of United Way, or <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bill_%26_Melinda_Gates_Foundation\" title=\"Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation\" rel=\"wikipedia\" class=\"zem_slink\">the Gates foundation<\/a> should be added to the US foreign aid figures to make them more realistic.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Zemified by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixie.png\" alt=\"Zemanta Pixie\" style=\"border: medium none ; float: right;\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<div id=\"mainphotoarea\"><\/div><div class=\"theme-buttons\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=1271\" data-send=\"false\" data-layout=\"box_count\" data-width=\"71\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-font=\"arial\" data-locale=\"en_US\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image via WikipediaI just had lunch with Brian A Gallagher, President and CEO of the United Way and I was surprised to find out that United Way gives away $4bn per year of which half of that money is given away outside of the United States. As you may know America as a country is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 5.0.3 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"max-image-preview:large\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Martin Varsavsky\"\/>\n\t<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=1271\" \/>\n\t\t<meta name=\"generator\" content=\"All in One SEO (AIOSEO) 5.0.3\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Martin Varsavsky in English\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Brian A Gallagher of the United 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