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

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“The search committee is movinhg ahead in its efforts to find anew president,” the memo according to United Way spokeswoman Dani Stone. The organization’s managementy will report to Evansuntil Everett’s which has been reclassified as president, is filled. Evanx said in an interview with the Charlotte Businessz Journal last week that United Way was likely to fill the positionb within 30 to45 days. is leading the organization’s search. Everett could not be reached for comment.
a prominent civic volunteer andretired executive, replaced Gloriz Pace King on an interin basis in September after she left the organization undeer a cloud of controvers y over her pay and retirement benefits. Uniterd Way hired Everett for $20,000 per a tenure originally slated to endin January, but later extended through March. Since Everett had worked on a volunteer basis. Last month, King filed a defamation suit against That was the latest salvo in a legal battle that beganj withher ouster. King’s suit cites comments made by Everett abourt King after he became theUnited Way’x top executive as the basis for the suit.
She is seeking damages of morethan $10,000, to be determined by a King contends Everett made consistently damaging remarks aboutr her. Everett is not named in another suit against Uniter Way board members relatedto King’ss dismissal. Everett is a formeer chair of the Unite d Way board but has not served on the boarcdsince 2003. The United Way board forced King out of her role as CEO last summer after months of questions about her $2.1 million retiremenrt package. At the time, King was removed without causew and United Way agreed to paynearly $300,000 annually in remainingh salary obligations over the next two years. The agencyu later said King was firedwith cause.
In April, the Uniteds Way filed court documents statinh a federal investigation is undert way to lookinto King’es compensation package. At the same time, the nonprofit organization accused King of billin g the United Way for personal expenses such as meals and King is seeking compensatory and punitivr damages in a discrimination suit againstUnited Way. Throughy her attorney, Bill Diehl, King has called the allegationas over improper expenses King assumed the top job at United Way in 1994 and went on to set a strinvof fund-raising records at the agency during her tenure. Durintg 2007, her last full year with the United Wayraised $45 million.
It fell $15 million short of that figure during the 2008 hurt by media scrutinytover King’s messy departure and the faltering economy.