Donations to Charities
I have a few favorite charities I like to support. That said, they evidently sell your contact info to every last Tom, Dick and Harry who will give them a penny! Every day I get two to five pieces of mail begging for their causes. Now I have decided that if I can't make a cash donation, I will not make any. From this day on, the landfill will be getting ALL of the junk mail.
Rant over!! :x
Rant over!! :x
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Use the paid envelope they send you to send them back their junk. 
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filled out in the name and address of some one you don't like...........Chief Shaway wrote:Use the paid envelope they send you to send them back their junk.
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Its disappointing....I've given a couple of foundations a few bucks. Now I'm buried in a blizzard of mail label stickers, note pads and cheesey diploma looking documents to proudly frame and hang on my wall. I've stopped giving except to the Salvation Army at Christmas. When I shipped out to Basic Training fifty one years ago, the Salvation Army handed ever guy a bag with basic stuff....tooth brush, tooth paste...etc.
I've never forgot that and they never charged for donuts and coffee where ever you were..unlike the Red Cross.0 -
One day my wife said, "I sent some money to a charity so they won't have to put some puppies to sleep. They sent me a picture."
"Who?" I asked.
She looked it up in her checkbook.
"SPCA!"
"They are antihunting!" I screamed. "Make out a check for the same amount and send it to the NRA!"
We both made mistakes that day.
Those 2 scammers hounded us for years. I'll bet they each spent $1000 on postage alone.0 -
Here is a VERY helpful website to help you pick - or avoid - charities
https://www.charitynavigator.org/0 -
I have given up on most of the big charities. It seems way to much goes to staff salaries and advertising. Thursday night Judy will be going to "Pink Night Palooza" which is a fundraiser and thank you to all who have contributed to the Breast Cancer Navigation Fund. I won't be going this year as I get a little uncomfortable being thanked by the strong young cancer survivors. I am happy being the guy in the background helping out. None of the funds raised are spent on this banquet. No paid staff, no paid advertising. 100% goes toward helping the ones in need. If I keep my money and efforts local I can see the results and monitor the spending easier. Bob 0 -
I support those that helped me out when I was injured and down and out during one point in my life which is...NONE!! 0 -
I give to three organizations with a credit card.
The Nazarene Fund, The GOA and SAF. (Use my anti-gun Costco Citibank Visa to give to the GOA and SAF)
Other charities are local and are always with cash and anonymous. Don't want to be on a mailing list or have anything reported to Uncle Sam.0 -
The pediatric oncology folk are pretty good about not selling or trading your personal info and data - they will throw out a line that points to not violating the hippa act - or vjolatinv patient medical privacy rights...
I give them and chop and the Shriner's quite a bit of my personal time - as well as the pediatric oncology ward...
Wounded warrior - purple heart...
Not a lot anymore.
And I do spend a bunch of time making calls and writing emails and sending letters asking their companies to donate some product of a small cash donation - discontinued and factory second or returned items are often sent after being fixed up.
In the last 3 months I got assorted school backpacks from Walmart ( left overs and closeouts and returns or over runs...
I got canal back light hydration shoulder packs along with a 20oz filter bottle...
aldi and Cree Lightest sent some really nice LED tac lights...
Victornox sent shoulder packs and an assortment of the little travel size folders (scissors and tweezers and a small blade and a file and tooth pick - assorted translucent gem colors )
Skull candy sent some entry level headphones and universal charging cords and rechargeable phone power booster packs...
Target sent oversized extra tall bright primary color breathable pocket t-shirts and a bunch of strange and silly patterned heavy padded oversized long socks with no slip textured billows and heels...
The local home depot built a new heavy duty poker table that cAn be broken down for storage or transport...
Domino's sent a bunch of $12.00 a d $20.00 gift cards
Acme donated a pallet of Skippy peanut butter and store brand ginger ale cans and assorted nutrition bars and Fiji water and 4 1/8 ounce bags of pretzels and heat retaining microwavable or bakeable towels and baby wipes...
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Chief Shaway wrote:Use the paid envelope they send you to send them back their junk.
That is EXACTLY, what I do.
Only I stuff all kind of stuff in with it. I save up their drivel, until it is worthwhile. (They get charged by weight.)
I write, "REMOVE ME FROM YOUR MAILING LIST," with a sharpie, on everything.
It usually stops.
Mike, while I like the commercials "Wounded Warrior," produces and what they have to say, and what the Veterans featured on their ads have to say, they are rated very poorly on the % amount given, that actually goes to a needy Veteran. (Very low, from what I recall.)
If I am incorrecet on this, Guy's please school me. I would like to feel like that charity is worthwhile/worth giving to.0 -
We used to do the money thing but after I retired we quit,, We quilt as a hobby,,the wife has always made tops and I started running the longarm for her..when we have a nice quilt but just not what we were wanting we donate it,, I have a list from the VA to women's shelters I send them too. Nothing beats the look on a child's face that has lost everything or been uprooted when you give them a nice warm quilt and tell them its theirs to keep.. I gave this one away recently to a little girl whose family home had burned down. 0 -
I give to the biggest charity in the world every year.
It's called the IRS and the government distributes my contribution to countries that hate us and millions of people that are to lazy to work for a living.
It leaves with with a warm/fuzzy feeling I'm doing so much good for so many people and now the Democrat candidates for Potus want to make sure we all give even more to help the "less fortunate." :twisted:0 -
I gave to the Salvation Army, VFW and a couple local. As a poor kid, very poor, I remember with great joy the Salvation Army bringing us toys when I was a little one. An Army captain brought us things for 4 years in a row. Hell yea, I still give to them. 0 -
We quit doing charities many years back,for several reasons. 0 -
My church, any VFW or American Legion, St. Judes Childrens Hospital and Wounded Warrior is my limit of giving, everybody else can keep going in the trash can 0 -
It is good to give I agree, but never ever put your return address on the envelope. Make one up or use there return address. And anything that says annual drive, fund raiser, or says return by a certain date, it is a scam, that goes for even the well known charities as well. And if they send me a package that says " a gift for you" I blank out my name and wright return on the package and drop it off in the mail or post office, and I never donate to them again,
They are trying to GUILT you in to giving, SHAME ON THEM.
Giving is a wonderful thing, but don't be taken in by con artist.0 -
we too quit giving to the bid ones, I would much rather slip someone I know really needs it a $50 or $100 bill and tell them to pass the favor on when you get back on your feet........
had a truck driver do this for me over 30 years ago when our house was flooded, only knew him to say hi as he delivered at work and would just talk and joke when he dropped by. He told me when I got back to work and tried to give him his money back to pass it on, he had had an old neighbor do the same for him years ago and he had been doing it since, I have done it numerous times and will continue as long as I can.0 -
The Charity navigator website that Rocky listed is REALLY good.
And yep- I got one of those little bags from the Salvation Army back when I took the Queen's shilling. Still slip a $50 in the kettle at Christmas. I write checks to our local volunteer fire and rescue squads.
One national charity that I will plug- Fisher House. They provide group living and meals for families visiting with servicemen at military hospitals. Listed as one of the 10 best charities in the US. You can also donate Frequent Flyer miles- airlines will often match them.0 -
+1 I had the wife promise to give some of my life insurance to Fisher house, she has stayed free for my heart surgery and by last heart attack, both about 10 days of intensive care each time, they gave her free lodging and a lot of local restaraunts donate food, she had things to eat if she wanted, but because of circumstances she didn't have much of apitite.......but we did leave a little in the collection box when she left each time, just would like to be able to give more11b6r wrote:The Charity navigator website that Rocky listed is REALLY good.
And yep- I got one of those little bags from the Salvation Army back when I took the Queen's shilling. Still slip a $50 in the kettle at Christmas. I write checks to our local volunteer fire and rescue squads.
One national charity that I will plug- Fisher House. They provide group living and meals for families visiting with servicemen at military hospitals. Listed as one of the 10 best charities in the US. You can also donate Frequent Flyer miles- airlines will often match them.0 -
Quick&Dead wrote:I give to the biggest charity in the world every year.
It's called the IRS and the government distributes my contribution to countries that hate us and millions of people that are to lazy to work for a living.
It leaves with with a warm/fuzzy feeling I'm doing so much good for so many people and now the Democrat candidates for Potus want to make sure we all give even more to help the "less fortunate." :twisted:
Well, you beat me to it. I was going to say I have an uncle named Sam who does all my charity work for me. He takes what he pleases from me & then doles it out as he pleases.0 -
We have a local charity (Crusade for Children) that we contribute to. 0 -
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I really hate getting 'junk mail' !!!
The only charities I give too is :
St. Judes & SAF !!!!
Thanks !!!0 -
Gideons International, and salvation army are good orgs with good records and works... 0 -
+1 again!One national charity that I will plug- Fisher House. They provide group living and meals for families visiting with servicemen at military hospitals. Listed as one of the 10 best charities in the US. You can also donate Frequent Flyer miles- airlines will often match them.
Fisher House and St. Jude.
I wouldn't go near wounded warrior based solely on the scandal from a few years ago.0 -
Well said, Q&D. 0 -
Salvation Army is our number one donation and I remember they back from my Army service and where I worked we would be out working a fire or other disasters and Salvation Army would be there giving out coffee and other items and the Red Cross would be charging for the same items 0 -
I have given directly to people in need enough times. I don't want to send my hard earned money to get spent on a golf course and I can't make a habit out of it.
one time at work someone was going around collecting money for a Bosnian there whose mom died. he needed a plane ticket to go back there for the funeral. dude had some dollars, a few fives and a ten in his hand. I reached in my pocket and all I had was a 100. so I gave it.
another time we were sitting at the picnic table outside work smoking. again someone's mom died (here in town) someone was collecting to pay for the funeral. dude across me looked pained to have to dig in his pocket and cough up four bucks. I dug into my pocket and pulled out whatever I had. plunked down all the ones. stared at him. plunked down a fiver. stared at him. plunked down the rest of the fives. stared at him. plunked down the tens. stared at him. reached in my other pocket and plunked down the three 20's that was in it. left my hand on it until he looked away.
that was all the money I had on me.0
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