Lowell Sun Online - Local Nonprofits take tough stand against United Way

Lowell Sun Online - Local: "Nonprofits take tough stand against United Way
By MICHAEL LAFLEUR, Sun StaffLOWELL Explain where contributions come from, where they are sent and why they are allocated in that manner.
That's what members of the Non-Profit Alliance of Greater Lowell, an advocacy organization encompassing about 30 Lowell social-service agencies, want to hear from top officials at the United Way of the Merrimack Valley.
After a speech by fiery United Way critic Robert Hatem, formerly a major United Way fund-raiser, the alliance yesterday voted to invite Timothy Schiavoni, the United Way's board president, James Karamourtopoulos, the board chairman, and Ray Anstiss Jr., the board treasurer, to its Feb. 5 meeting to do just that."