Charity: To Give or Not to Give
It seems, at every turn, that someone is asking for money. From change jars on counters to phone calls at dinner, everybody wants their piece. With the start of the school year just around the corner, I am not looking forward to the cookie dough, wrapping paper, magazine, and coupon book catalogs that will soon litter the break room counters. Anyone with a child knows how traumatic this can be. You promise you will not do it for them, and then you realize how bad they want to earn that ducky coin purse, and off you go, hocking their wears so the PTSA or boosters can get their piece of the pie. The problem is they really need that money! All of the organizations do. From programs for at-risk youth to Cancer research. So what do you do? Do you give until it hurts, or do you just ignore it? You want to give, but you can't give to every organization. Here are some points to ponder. First, quite literally eve...