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i n rs Chronicle OA lO FORSYTH CNJY R.JB NC ROOM 66G W 5TH ST n 3 WINSTCN-SALEM NC THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1998 A Directors troubled over one - shot contributions * ? . 'j<rs ..i', . ; . A ?.V ' --V - . . .> jV/--:-.,. ' '? , _ "j . *t.-: -V V ,V ^ By VERONICA CLEMONS i 'Chnmicie Staff Writer ? ^ ? ' ? ? > United Way agency directors are questioning the method used by Floyd Davis to reach this year's $11 million fund raising goal. Davis, United Way president and CEO, said the one-shot contributions strategy is nothing new, and, although final figures are not yet available, the amount of these donations will barely exceed $230,000. "This is nothing unusual, " he said. "One-time contributions have been used by this United Way and United Ways all over the country. "Each time a person gives there is no guarantee they will give a gain next year." Directors are concerned that one-shot contribu tions is not a viable fund raising strategy. Tm glad they made it," said Experiment in Self Reliance Director Robert Law. "But, I would have preferred it strictly through donations rather than one-shot contributions." Murray Greason, Jr., immediate past campaign see AGENCY page 13 ?;?. v . . we've started out in the hole next year..." AmM ?Bert Grisant . .This is nothing unusual ... it's used all over the country . . ." ? Floyd Davis ?k?? waf nol i involved,' wbohad ^?Bi fetsw Dubbed the ? iiAiMuUi CIAA No Boon to ..." ? ' ?? -A, . .? ?* . ?.?- v. - ?. ; ' ? ? ' ' *. ? ? ? v - '? j* Black Community A Minority businesses say event, for them, has little economic benefit By DAVID L. DILLARD CArwridt Staff Writer r ' majority of 4he $8 million gener ated by the QAA Tournament last year did not reach the coffers of black businesses. CIAA officials said they do not know how much business was done with local Macks* Camille Roddy, who woiks with the Chamber of Commerce and the local CIAA committee, said black-owned businesses only received catering and printing con tracts last year. So far, black businesses have received die same contracts this year. Roddy said efforts were made to promote black businesses through a brochure last year, but the concept was dropped due to mt &AA page / 3 Farrakhan Cited Most Effective Leader in the Black Community A Black newspaper poll of 1300 picks Muslim leader choice among its readers By WILLIAM REED NNPA Director of Communications Louis Farrakhan is the person the majority of readers of black newspapers rate as the most effective African-Ameri can leader. A "Your True Voice" national poll among black readers also reveals that "The most pressing problem where they live" is not racism but the lack of economic development. Over 70 percent of the respondents feel only "Somewhat" or "Not safe at all" in their neighborhoods, and drugs are rated as causing crime and forc ing residents of inner-city areas to be afraid of being murdered or robbed. More than 1300 readers of The Black Press returned filled in copies of polls that were in their local publications to the National Newspaper Publishers Associa tion to record their true voice to issues an4^ people that affect their lives in America. The poll was undertaken because African see FARRAKHAN page 9 CLASSIFIEDS This Week in Black History^ Febemrj II, 1961 Robert Weaver s%m mas administrator of the Howt$ and Home Finance Agnes, highest federal post to dateh/abbek American. Janet Wheelet, president of Phi On* fa, for., presents at ike official opening of the secmd phase of to Arms Apartments. See story P*8?7 ? GOAL Program Puts Lives Back on Tract A Two homeless men working toward new life By DAVID L. DILLARD Chronicle Staff Writer Herb McClcllan and Clayton Loweiy are two middle aged men who were on separate paths of destruction. They were both independent men earning good salaries, until drugs and alcohol rendered them homeless. Lowery, 40, worked at Shaw Food Services and got in see GOAL page 4 Clayton Lawtrj (ttUmg) mm 4 H*rt McCltOon work am m cwmpmtrrpragrmm wktootWSSV',Hmoi^wUUB^WWimmmm*mmWt I Iti fa*? I FEBRUARY IS BLACK HISTORY MONTH ? TO SUBSCRIBE CALL 91 0 722 8624 ?
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