Editing Elaine Chao (section)

===Between Bush administrations===
Following her service in President George H.W. Bush's administration, Chao worked from 1992 to 1996 as president and CEO of United Way of America.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.philanthropy.com/article/Elaine-Chao-Leaves-United-Way/168461|title=Elaine Chao Leaves United Way|date=May 30, 1996|work=The Chronicle of Philanthropy|access-date=March 26, 2017|archive-date=July 30, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200730230304/https://www.philanthropy.com/article/Elaine-Chao-Leaves-United-Way/168461|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://secure.unitedway.org/pages/history|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170327081858/https://secure.unitedway.org/pages/history|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 27, 2017|title=History {{!}} United Way|website=secure.unitedway.org|language=en|access-date=March 26, 2017}}</ref> She was the first Asian American to hold that role. She is credited with returning credibility and public trust to the organization after a financial mismanagement scandal involving former president [[William Aramony]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Associated Press |date=November 15, 2011 |title=William Aramony dies at 84; United Way chief executive |url=https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-william-aramony-20111115-story.html |access-date=July 24, 2023 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US |archive-date=January 26, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240126235948/https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-william-aramony-20111115-story.html |url-status=live }}</ref> From 1996 until her appointment as Secretary of Labor, Chao worked at a [[Conservatism in the United States|conservative]] [[think tank]] in [[Washington, D.C.]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.biography.com/people/elaine-l-chao-214142|title=Elaine L. Chao|website=Biography|language=en-us|access-date=March 26, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141221034347/http://www.biography.com/people/elaine-l-chao-214142|archive-date=December 21, 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> She was also a board member of the [[Independent Women's Forum]].<ref name="ronnee">{{cite book | last1=Schreiber | first1=Ronnee | chapter=Pro-Women, Pro-Palin, Antifeminist: Conservative Women and Conservative Movement Politics | editor1-last=Aberbach | editor1-first=Joel D. | editor2-last=Peele | editor2-first=Gillian | title=Crisis of Conservatism?: The Republican Party, the Conservative Movement, and American Politics After Bush | date=2011 | publisher=Oxford University Press | location=Oxford | isbn=9780199764020 | page=135 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1hribbv8dCYC | access-date=February 18, 2015 | archive-date=January 27, 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240127000115/https://books.google.com/books?id=1hribbv8dCYC | url-status=live }}</ref> She later returned to think tanks after leaving the government in January 2009.<ref name="know">{{Cite news|url=http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2016/1129/What-you-should-know-about-Elaine-Chao-Trump-s-pick-for-transportation|title=What you should know about Elaine Chao, Trump's pick for transportation|last=Hoover|first=Amanda|date=November 29, 2016|work=The Christian Science Monitor|access-date=March 26, 2017|issn=0882-7729|archive-date=November 8, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201108132502/https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2016/1129/What-you-should-know-about-Elaine-Chao-Trump-s-pick-for-transportation|url-status=live}}</ref>

Chao delivered a speech at the [[2000 Republican National Convention]].<ref>{{cite web |title=THE REPUBLICANS: PERSONALITIES AND IMAGES; Worth Watching |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/31/us/the-republicans-personalities-and-images-worth-watching.html |website=The New York Times |access-date=April 28, 2023 |date=July 31, 2000 |archive-date=April 28, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230428053617/https://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/31/us/the-republicans-personalities-and-images-worth-watching.html |url-status=live }}</ref>