-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Scouts may see a windfall Gwyneth K. Shaw of the Sentinel Staff Posted March 8, 2001 The controversy about the Boy Scouts’ anti-gay policy appears to be helping the local council -- at least with donors to Heart of Florida United Way. When it’s all added up, the charity thinks the Scouts will receive more than $330,000 from people who earmarked all or part of their United Way donation for the group. The council asked only for $325,000. "They’re going to get slightly more than they requested for their programs," United Way spokeswoman Michelle Herbold said. Donors made their decision to give directly to the Boy Scouts last fall, when it looked as though the organization might be completely cut off from future United Way money because of the charity’s policy barring any of its agencies from discriminating. While the Scouts still don’t meet those requirements, last month the United Way board agreed to allow the group to continue to receive only dollars dedicated by donors. A bigger windfall has come from Dr. Phillips Inc., home to two of the region’s oldest and most generous foundations. For the next three years, the investment proceeds earned by nearly $1.5 million Dr. Phillips has handed to the United Way will go to the Scouts. Dr. Phillips didn’t make a contribution to United Way’s fall campaign because of the board’s initial decision to pass the nondiscrimination policy. Jim Hinson, president of Dr. Phillips, said he hopes the fund will yield 5 to 6 percent of the original sum for the Scouts. That could be more than $225,000 over three years. The combination has the Scouts smiling -- but top officials know that when the publicity from the United Way flap fades, so could the flood of designations. For example, during the fall 1999 campaign, donors pledged $80,000 directly to the Scouts. But the organization got $310,000, with the difference coming from the general pool of donor dollars. That kind of gap won’t be made up under the terms agreed to by the United Way and the Scouts last month. Beginning this fall, United Way will take the money donated straight to the Scouts, take 13 percent for overhead, then hand it over. Even though the 2000 campaign -- which raised $20 million in Orange, Seminole and Osceola counties -- ended in November, the amounts designated by donors are only now becoming available. Tico Perez, president of the local Scouts council, said he is pleased at the money coming in. But the Scouts have to plan for a time when that river runs dry, he said. "The key to that is going to be that the people who designated to this campaign continue to designate to us in the future," Perez said. "Hopefully, our donors will continue to remember us. We certainly hope that people will not forget." Nationally, pressure is building on the Scouts from governments and a number of organizations that give grants. Locally, Orlando Sentinel Communications, parent company of the Orlando Sentinel, said it will no longer give grants to programs run by the Scouts that discriminate because of sexual orientation or religion. The company gave $16,000 to the Scouts last year through money raised by the newspaper’s Sentinel Santa program. The company encouraged the Scouts to reapply for grant money, but only for programs that do not discriminate. Hinson said helping the Scouts build a nest egg was the intent of the Dr. Phillips board in offering the proceeds from the $1.5 million. "They need to take these new dollars that are coming in and begin to create their own longstanding endowment to create income for themselves over the years," he said. Gwyneth K. 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