Posted on 11/25/2004 5:34:53 AM PST by truthandlife
You're probably right. Since I give only to local organizations and mainly the boy scouts my next step is to see how much money they actually receive.
I know I could give directly to them, but I also know I tend to forget to do so.
UW sucks...lots of money away from good causes.
They use over 50% of donations on overhead to pay "staff members." Most of what's left goes to really lame organizations, and yes, they don't like the scouts because they won't let gay men in the tents with the kiddies.
Good call by CFI
" Target is suffering from the new age of litigation. If they allow the Salvation Army to solicit they may not be allowed to refuse other causes which might offend their customers."
And some give up not firing a shot...
I HAD to donate to UW at work, even though I was also giving 10% to my favorite charities. I did it under protest, and I told my supervisor as much.
I also do not shop Target, and WILL NOT shop Target...They refused to allow the Toys For Tots program by the Marines about 10 years ago, and that was when I said they had all the money they were going to get from me.
Target and UW are inferior in my book, and I think Wal-Mart should be run out of town. And don't ask me to elaborate on THAT! ;-)
Shop where you see the Salvation Army bell ringers.
In our local supermarket, there are Salvation Army donation coupons at the checkouts, rather than bell ringers outside. I'm not sure what the reasoning is, but they are still visible, so it's a good thing.
My husband faced the UW situation for the first time last week.
We found out that the Atlanta chapter DOES support the Boy Scouts, and doesn't support any abortion groups. We gave a small directed donation to several Boy Scouts groups (DH is an Eagle Scout) and a crisis pregnancy center.
Just another way that Georgia beats California.
thanks.
so, you're saying the dayton family are conservatives?
Good for Georgia!
I think we can ALL beat California. With one hand tied behind our backs!
Outstanding Story!
Good story! Thanks.
I worked for a company in the early '80s whose Chairman of the Board was the head of United Way for a year. Talk about putting the 'strong-arm' on the employees! There was no way that he was going to allow HIS company to be anything less than 100% in donations.
Homosexual Agenda Ping. I know a little something about the United Way - a friend who USED to work for a large corporation was highly pressured (I would say forced, except he refused to go along with the program) to donate lots of money to UW, attend special functions to promote it (functions which were morally repugnant to him), and basically spend quite a bit of work time promoting UW - often with his own money. He refused.
He is now fired.
Let me and ItsOurTimeNow know if anyone wants on/off this pinglist.
I've read on FR that Target donates quite a bit of money to "gay, lesbian, transgendered etc etc" causes. FYI.
Target invited the Salvation Army to get charitable dollars the way they do for many other organizations, which is directly.
Target gives out millions monthly to charity. IMHO, to boycott Target simply cuts off one's nose to spite one's face.
......great story!....made my Thanksgiving Day even brighter.
Because Target has a no soliciting policy, and for years they made one and only one exception, for the S.A. Other groups are wanting that same exception. So Target said no to all, since it couldn't reasonably make only the one exception.
Check it out at Snopes, the rumors are not true.
United Way gives support for ABORTIONS!!!
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