[snippy_about_it]

Thanks WaterDragon for the ping to another good read in Oregon magazine. I don't understand why these large charity foundations allow their directors to get PAID such large salaries. Can't they find anyone to volunteer to help. So many of them are in it for the wrong reasons.

I'd rather stick to local places and of course the Salvation Army.

[WaterDragon]

I'd rather stick to local places and of course the Salvation Army.

That's my thinking, too, snippy. The more local, the more personally involved we are in giving to charity, the more we benefit spiritually and the more those who are helped receive the added benefit of knowing people, individuals, care about them and so are encouraged. Separating the giver and receiver with well-paid, massive charity bureaucracies, diminishes the value of the gift and does not affirm the value of the person receiving it.