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Re: 3 Things You Need to Know Before Giving to Charity

Craig Weinrich — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:41:49 -0000

My organization has a document title "How to Read the Form 990 and Understand What it Means" which may be a good addition to your resources.
Find it at: http://www.npccny.org/Form_...

Re: 3 Things You Need to Know Before Giving to Charity

Anonymous — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 04:04:06 -0000

I am very interested in a charity, i donate money often,mostly for poor kids. Your tips about tax deduction are very useful.

Re: 3 Things You Need to Know Before Giving to Charity

Steve — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:55:31 -0000

Thanks for the comments, and thanks to Flexo for the opportunity to guest post on Consumerism Commentary!

Re: 3 Things You Need to Know Before Giving to Charity

Curtis — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 11:16:13 -0000

I find that there is a lot of pressure at work this time of year to give to charities. There are company drives and goals of "100% participation" for charity giving and even matching company gifts. People can sometimes get down right nasty if you don't participate.

Me, we have our charities we dontate too annually and those that work often offers are the large national type that we don't support. We will stick with our local free zoo and our local Humane Society thank you very much!

Re: 3 Things You Need to Know Before Giving to Charity

FinanceIsPersonal.com — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 11:04:50 -0000

This is some Grade A advice. I have a very hard time giving money to an organization and saying do what you want with it, because there's no accountability with how the money's spent, so I've found that giving money to specific individuals for specific causes has been a lot better way to be generous.

Re: 3 Things You Need to Know Before Giving to Charity

V Sio — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:33:17 -0000

To Saving Freak

Hmmmm... I think even you don't have enough money to donate, but still can be a better person by visit their center like orphanage. Which can be an amazing experience for your life too.

Re: 3 Things You Need to Know Before Giving to Charity

The Saving Freak — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 09:21:12 -0000

If you are fortunate enough to have money it is important to give some of that away to charity. It makes you a better person in the long run and,if nothing else, it makes you feel really good in the short term.