{"id":1185,"date":"2010-12-01T07:00:37","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T12:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/?p=1185"},"modified":"2014-09-28T07:38:28","modified_gmt":"2014-09-28T11:38:28","slug":"1185","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/1185\/","title":{"rendered":"Extra: Tis the Season for\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/dollar-sign.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-685\" title=\"dollar sign\" src=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/dollar-sign.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"141\" \/><\/a>&#8230;charitable fundraising. With the Christmas spirit rising and the tax write-off deadline looming, generous and astute people are considering making monetary donations to charitable causes. If you\u2019ve ever given to anything (and I hope you have) the downside of that gift is that we are both on mailing lists for worthy causes. The worthy causes (some of whom I personally solicit for) have learned that people are more likely to make a donation right before January 1. So we get mail. I don\u2019t begrudge needy people and good causes their just donations, but I do know that our personal pot of money is only so deep. Over the years we have developed several criteria for giving money away:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Tithe, meaning give 10% of our income away (church support, charities, causes, political candidates, etc. They all count. (This frees us from the pesky question of \u201cAre we giving enough or too much?\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Give priority to causes we are personally involved with.<\/li>\n<li>Give priority to causes that are local, that not everybody may know about, and small enough that our little donation can make a difference, i.e., leave the big diseases and global causes to those who have deeper pockets and aren\u2019t aware of the more specialized projects we are committed to.<\/li>\n<li>Give to walks, runs, rides, etc. when someone we have a personal relationship with, asks.<\/li>\n<li>Give to any child who is selling something door to door. Been there, done that.<\/li>\n<li>When in doubt check\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charitynavigator.org\/\">Charity Navigator<\/a>. This organization evaluates the health and ratio of proceeds actually going to the needy<br \/>\nfor over 5,400 of America\u2019s largest charities.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>For additional ideas check my website enrichment exercise: <a href=\"http:\/\/susanvogt.net\/EnrichmentEx.htm#DonatingwithConfidence\">Donating With Confidence<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;charitable fundraising. With the Christmas spirit rising and the tax write-off deadline looming, generous and astute people are considering making monetary donations to charitable causes. If you\u2019ve ever given to anything (and I hope you have) the downside of that gift is that we are both on mailing lists for worthy causes. The worthy causes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-1185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beyond-stuff","category-extra-fun","tag-money"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1185"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3623,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions\/3623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}