Writer's Block: Philanthropy
Apr. 27th, 2009 02:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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I am a lousy philanthropist.
I donate a portion of my paycheck to the United Way here at work each year. I do this for a number of reasons.
The first is because the United Way does a lot of good in the community, helping the less fortunate. That is the good reason.
I also do it for tax purposes, since I get a portion of that donation back each year. The past couple of years, we have also gotten Angel Days at work, which are a bonus vacation day that we only get if we donate a certain amount of our pay to the UW each year. I think it's equal to a single day's pay.
I appreciate that day, and wish they'd offered it to us earlier.
I also do it for the convenience. It's $20 off my pay each pay period, no muss, no fuss, don't even see it. I do nothing on my end, except having an actual opportunity to tell those less fortunate that I gave at the office.
Cynra & I also give to charity during the holidays as a gift. Usually the local food bank, but also to the Heart & Stroke foundation and the thing where you buy livestock or immunizations for people in the third world.
Man, it feels really weird to talk about this stuff for some reason.
I am a lousy philanthropist.
I donate a portion of my paycheck to the United Way here at work each year. I do this for a number of reasons.
The first is because the United Way does a lot of good in the community, helping the less fortunate. That is the good reason.
I also do it for tax purposes, since I get a portion of that donation back each year. The past couple of years, we have also gotten Angel Days at work, which are a bonus vacation day that we only get if we donate a certain amount of our pay to the UW each year. I think it's equal to a single day's pay.
I appreciate that day, and wish they'd offered it to us earlier.
I also do it for the convenience. It's $20 off my pay each pay period, no muss, no fuss, don't even see it. I do nothing on my end, except having an actual opportunity to tell those less fortunate that I gave at the office.
Cynra & I also give to charity during the holidays as a gift. Usually the local food bank, but also to the Heart & Stroke foundation and the thing where you buy livestock or immunizations for people in the third world.
Man, it feels really weird to talk about this stuff for some reason.
