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Strategies & Market Trends : The Residential Real Estate Crash Index
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To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (186067)2/23/2009 6:28:16 PM
From: TommasoRead Replies (1) of 306849
 
RE: Charities

I think it's hard to go wrong with the Salvation Army, though George Orwell would have violently disagreed. But his experience was with the British version.

Dealing with some nonprofits can lead to rage. Maybe the most absurd thing I ran into was that years ago I became a life member of a Friends of a Library organization. Over the years (many) the free annual dinner that life membership included became more and more valuable, rising from $10 to over $50. At that level I was getting a 10% annual return on my life membership, and someone actually began to worry if they should report this as income to the IRS. Next thing they would have taken out withholding on my free dinner!
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