Trash it

An easy way to make your donations more effective | Joel Belz

If things are really bad for the economy in general for the year ahead, one component may have it even worse. Those are the folks who manage the charitable and non-profit organizations of our society.

Your mailbox has probably already been cluttered with the panic messages. Giving is drastically down! Our needs are dramatically up! Please dig deep! Whatever you gave last time, would you please consider doubling it this time around?

I have an alternative suggestion: When you get the next request like that, trash it.

I first proposed this here a couple of years ago. I repeat the suggestion now—and even enlarge on it—both because the times call for it and because several friends have urged me to do so.

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