Charitable Giving

Swagbucks: Donate Swagbucks to Help Japan + New Member Registration Code

March 26, 2011

Did you know that you can donate Swag Bucks to help Japan, too? Now through 4/8, Swagbucks is collecting Swag Buck donations to help Japan.  To date, they have raised enough Swag Bucks to donate over $14,000, and there’s still time to make your donation too, with as little as 5 Swagbucks. If you’ve never [...]

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Japan Tsunami Relief: Comment for me to Donate

March 14, 2011

Update: I will be closing comments at the end of the day on 3/31 and making my donation on 4/1/11.  I will now make a donation of $1 per comment, up to $250. As I saw video and images and read stories of the deadly earthquake and tsunami in Japan, my heart went out to [...]

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Feed it Forward: Free Restaurant.com Gift Certificates

November 26, 2010

Now through 12/31, you can give up to 40 FREE $10 Restaurant.com gift certificates per day, until Restaurant.com has given out $40 million in combined gift certificate value. All you need to do is provide a valid name and e-mail address to “Feed It Forward” to a friend. Restaurant.com has been participating in this program [...]

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FREE Ideas to Donate to Charity

February 5, 2010

Several companies are helping you donate money to those in need for FREE…it just takes a few minutes and the click of your mouse. Swagbucks – they have a new $5 gift card that you can purchase for only 45 Swagbucks where you can choose which charity to donate the $5 to.  There are over [...]

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Haiti Relief = Tax Deduction for 2009 Taxes

January 28, 2010

Normally, a charitable contribution must be made during the tax year (1/1 – 12/31) in order to claim it on your taxes.  However, on January 22, President Obama signed HR 4462 into law. Basically, taxpayers  can choose to deduct any charitable contributions made to help the earthquake victims in Haiti on their 2009 tax return [...]

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Feed it Forward: Free Restaurant.com Gift Certificates

November 28, 2009
Holiday

I received this e-mail on Thanksgiving, and I think it’s a great idea.  Here’s an opportunity to Feed It Forward to others this Christmas season: The gift of giving lifts spirits, spreads joy, and strengthens communities. Feed It Forward™ provides you the opportunity to help give away up to $30 million in free restaurant gift [...]

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Holiday Mail for Heroes

November 11, 2009

Have you ever seen the movie The Christmas Card?  It’s a great movie (my in-laws probably watch it about 15 times around Christmas), and in the movie a soldier receives a Christmas card from a woman that touches him so much that he visits the town she’s from when he’s on leave. While it’s fiction [...]

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Give to Others in Need {for less}

October 14, 2009

Even if you don’t have much money, you can still give to others in need in others ways.  You could contribute your “free” or “almost free” items that you’ve purchased from the drugstores or you can give your time. Faithful Provisions compiles a list of Food Donation Deals each week on her blog from a [...]

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