The Two Boots Word Vault
Words from Minnesota's Timothy Young, poet, essayist, and social thinker.
The Two Boots Word Vault
A Frogtown Editorial December 4, 1986 United Way Cuts Funds
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Timothy
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Season 3
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Episode 14
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After five years working in Frogtown, and helping establish the Frogtown Community Association, I had to find other projects to work on. The United Way cut the FCA's share of funding for this impoverished neighborhood. Other funders followed the United Way's lead. Frogtown was the poorest and most heterogenous community in the Twin Cities metropolitan area. Hundreds of neighbors had volunteered at the center. One year 4,000 of the 13,000 residents put in 40,000 volunteer hours at the center. The moneyed interests abandoned the area much too soon.