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chloe
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I just don't trust that my money goes the way they say. Im pessimisstic. United Way must have some good deal with the companies & vice versa......
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I don't like to donate money to any group, but my company always pressures me to give to United Way so I end up doing to because of the high personal pressure. Id rather give to individuals myself or give items I no longer need. i gave a fax machine to a rehab for women & children and some furniture & clothes. Im really controlling about my donations.....he he
At my most recent company (in England) we used to have what I thought was a brilliant scheme. I wonder if something similar exists in the US.
I used to give £30 (about $50) a month from my net salary to something called the Charities Aid Foundation. Because I was a high rate taxpayer, the tax paid on that would be reclaimed by CAF, making my donation equivalent to £50. My company would then match this donation, turning the total monthly donation into £100.
CAF would send me a checkbook, and I could then write a check to any registered British charity for any amount up to the total amount my CAF account was in credit.
I always used to save the donations up. When I left England in June, I wrote checks to a local school my children had attended ($5000), an after school play group they went to that received very little in the way of funding ($2000) and the British Diabetes Association ($3000).
It only cost £30 a month, but the feeling I got when I wrote out those checks was one of the best I've ever known.
They HIGHLY encourge us to donate to the United Way where I work too, I wonder if companies get some kind of reward if they have a lot of employees donate? Not that I mind, I've given to the Lupus Foundation every year, my sister in law and my friend from high school have both died from Lupus.
United Way was really corrupt a few years back. I never trusted them, or needed them to make my decisions for me anyway.
That's a great way to do it. There are similar programs in the US.
At my most recent company (in England) we used to have what I thought was a brilliant scheme. I wonder if something similar exists in the US.
I used to give £30 (about $50) a month from my net salary to something called the Charities Aid Foundation. Because I was a high rate taxpayer, the tax paid on that would be reclaimed by CAF, making my donation equivalent to £50. My company would then match this donation, turning the total monthly donation into £100.
CAF would send me a checkbook, and I could then write a check to any registered British charity for any amount up to the total amount my CAF account was in credit.
I always used to save the donations up. When I left England in June, I wrote checks to a local school my children had attended ($5000), an after school play group they went to that received very little in the way of funding ($2000) and the British Diabetes Association ($3000).
It only cost £30 a month, but the feeling I got when I wrote out those checks was one of the best I've ever known.
You don't happen to know what they are called by any chance? I might look into it.
I LOVE LOVE LOVE that idea! You know exactly where your money is going, and it's being matched by your company! And I bet they loved getting those checks! Nice!