Yes. I'd rather donate directly to organizations with a real interest in making every dollar count, instead of paying ever-higher taxes for the government to run the same programs with 90% less efficiency.
Specifically? I donate to organizations that help family members of policemen killed in the line of duty.
I donate all my old clothes and assorted crap to the Salvation Army
I sponsor a disdvantaged kid to go to private school in NYC
I sit on the board of a charity that gives away about $50K/year
I volunteer with my local ambulance corps.
I donate to Goodwill every year. Mostly old clothes & stuff. It's great because at the place we donate, they just sign, date and hand you a blank reciept every time you drop something off. Makes filing my taxes a whole lot easier every year
Northwest Harvest (supplies WA food banks)
Seattle Times Fund for the Needy (paper pays all fundraising costs then distributes 100% of funds collected to local charities)
united way, salvation army, fund for the arts, hospice.
you wouldn't believe the kinds of services hospice offers:
free medicine, free in home care, free hospital bed, free counseling/pastor for those grieving, free nurse...and it goes on and on and on.
Originally posted by: DWW
I donate blood every 56 days.
I donate my time every Sunday at the hospital rather than sit through a boring church service. Yeah I'm a bad Protestant
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