Charitable Giving

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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Double (or Triple) Charitable Contributions with Matching Gifts

March 3, 2009

Do you make charitable contributions each year? In addition to our church tithes, my husband and I like to make small contributions to our alumni universities and a few other small charities. Although, we are unable to give too much money, we can double our contribution just by doing a little bit of …

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Giving Items to Charity

November 12, 2008

This time of year, with the holidays coming, we usually take time to remember those who are less fortunate. There are food drives for Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners, toy drives for Christmas, etc. I fully support participating in those drives to help others enjoy Thanksgiving and Christmas. However, I also believe in giving year-round. Especially [...]

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