"JohnH" wrote in message
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On Thu, 11 May 2006 23:38:19 GMT, Don White
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JohnH wrote:
On Thu, 11 May 2006 21:46:47 GMT, Don White
wrote:


JohnH wrote:


Don, have you seen the Race for the Cure site lately? Unreal!

http://www.active.com/donate/varace4cure/RacingforRenee
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'Til next time,

John H


Quite impressive...
You must be 'putting the bite' on your whole town.


Well, not quite, but there are a lot of caring, compassionate people out
there. I feel good about it because it's one of the very few things I,
as a
father of a daughter with breast cancer, can do. It puts a smile on her
face!

As of now, there've been 71 donors. The race is day after tomorrow. Sure
wish we could reach the goal by then.

I *was* surprised that more people didn't take me up on my offer to
double
(or triple!) their donation!

http://www.active.com/donate/varace4cure/RacingforRenee
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'Til next time,

John H


If it's anything like here...there's always someone at the door...on the
phone, hanging around supermarket entrances with good causes looking for
money. Mom & dad used to give about $25.00 to each request. Next thing
you knew..hundreds of letters started showing up. A lot of charities
'sell' their donation lists to other charities. When I give...it's a
modest amount and I don't want receipts. The small tax savings aren't
worth the hounding.

I don't blame you. Once my wife delivered envelopes to people in the
neighborhood asking for a donation to one of the big charities, soon we
were getting calls from 8-10 different charities to do the same thing. Now
we don't do it for any, but I always tell them why when they call.

The church my wife attends (and sometimes me) provides free day care to
the
needy, food, and English as a second language classes, along with programs
for teens, etc. It gets a chunk of change every year, but I don't give to
the folks who come to the door, unless it's for the local high school
band.
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'Til next time,

John H


We support a very few causes that are meaningful to us and pretty much
politely refuse most other requests.
I figure if everybody did the same, all the causes would get their share of
donations. Maybe this is wrong, but you can't support everything.

The only donation I regret .... no, regret is not the right word ... the
only one I was somewhat disappointed in was a rather sizeable donation to
the American Red Cross shortly after 9/11. Like many, we got caught up in
the emotional need to "do something". The controversy that arose over the
subsequent months regarding how the 9/11 donations were dispersed (or not)
was a bit disappointing. Not to bash the ARC, but I think their leadership
misread the public's intentions.

RCE