I'm sure there are plenty of
great small charities as well, I just haven't had the time to search for them.
Not exact matches
If the Canadian Cancer Society or the Heart and Stroke Foundation has an especially successful fundraising year, it likely means some other
charity (or perhaps a
great many
small charities) will have had comparatively miserable ones.
Although I dislilke proselytizing, I learned an interesting «take it to the bank» fact about Catholic
charities: it is this: because good and decent people who are priests and nuns take vows of poverty and are given only
small allowances, Catholic
charities in general deliver a far
greater percentage of your donated dollar to the work you wanted done with it.
Second, you will need written receipts for every contribution
greater than $ 250 and proof of any
smaller contributions (a bank or credit card statement would do, as would a receipt from the
charity in question).
Blumberg presents the following quandary: Should you give to the biggest
charities, because they are already well - funded or would you be better off giving to a
smaller organization and help them to actually turn from mediocre to
great?
If I'm allowed a general comment on the chosen
charity, much as I admire medical colleagues who devote their careers to helping a
small number of individuals it is clear that the
greatest benefit comes from public health improvements i.e. clean water, sanitation and nutrition.
They are of three types: (1) self - help programs; (2) «cutting costs by cutting competence» programs, by way of
greater use of, students, paralegals, and «unbundled» legal services, wherein the client does more with the intended result that the cost will be lower because the lawyer does less; and, (3) pro bono
charity, which, albeit commendable, is too
small to have any significant impact upon the volume of legal services needed.
They are of three types: ( 1 ) self - help programs; ( 2 ) «cutting costs by cutting competence» programs, by way of
greater use of, students, paralegals, and «unbundled» legal services, wherein the client does more with the intended result that the cost will be lower because the lawyer does less; and, ( 3 ) pro bono
charity, which, albeit commendable, is too
small to have any significant impact upon the volume of legal services needed.
Giving a life insurance policy to a
charity — or naming a
charity as a beneficiary on a policy — can be a
great way for a charitably inclined client to leverage a relatively
small current outlay into a sizable future donation.