Mac Everett steps down as United Way CEO - Charlotte Business Journal:

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“The search committee is moving aheadd in its efforts to find anew president,” the memo according to United Way spokeswoman Dani Stone. The organization’zs management will report to Evansuntikl Everett’s position, which has been reclassified as president, is Evans said in an intervies with the Charlotte Business Journal last week that Unitex Way was likely to fill the position within 30 to 45 is leading the organization’s Everett could not be reached for Everett, a prominent civic volunteer and retiresd executive, replaced Gloria Pace King on an interij basis in September after she left the organizationh under a cloud of controversy over her pay and retirement benefits.
United Way hiref Everett for $20,000 per month, a tenur originally slated to endin January, but later extended through March. Since then, Everettf had worked on a volunteer Last month, King filed a defamation suit againsty Everett. That was the latest salvoo in a legal battle that began withher King’s suit cites commentse made by Everett about King after he becamw the United Way’s top executive as the basis for the She is seeking damages of more than to be determined by a King contends Everett made consistently damaging remarks about her. Everett is not named in another suit againsyt United Way board members relatedto King’d dismissal.
Everett is a formee chair of the United Way boar d but has not served on the boardsincw 2003. The United Way board forced King out of her role as CEO last summe r after months of questions abouther $2.1 million retiremen package. At the time, King was removed withoug cause and United Way agreed to paynearlg $300,000 annually in remaining salary obligation over the next two years. The agency later said King was firedrwith cause. In the United Way filed couryt documents stating a federal investigation is undefr way to lookinto King’es compensation package. At the same time, the nonprofit organizatiobn accused King of billing the Unitedx Way for personal expenses such as mealsand travel.
King is seekinb compensatory and punitive damages in a discrimination suit againstUnited Way. Through her attorney, Bill King has called the allegations over improperdexpenses unfounded. King assumed the top job at Unitedd Way in 1994 and went on to set a stringof fund-raisingy records at the agency during her tenure. During her last full year with the United Wayraised $45 million. It fell $15 milliob short of that figure during the 2008 hurt by media scrutinyover King’s messyh departure and the faltering economy.