Don’t forget the Salvation Army in your Thanksgiving and Christmas charity

They do a good work.

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If you're not familiar with their Angel Tree program at Christmas, check it out.
Fun to get a few names and play Santa. They have brothers and sisters if you ask.

Can't miss their Christmas tree at Crabtree Valley Mall and I'm sure they have locations all over NC /SC.
It's the one time of year that I enjoy going to the mall.
 
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If you're not familiar with their Angel Tree program at Christmas, check it out.
Fun to get a few names and play Santa. They have brothers and sisters if you ask.

Can't miss their Christmas tree at Crabtree Valley Mall and I'm sure they have locations all over NC /SC.
It's the one time of year that I enjoy going to the mall.
Wea are actually doing 3 this year. Since we buy what we want all year we dont do gifts to each other.
 
In my history course, American 2, Salvation Army comes up. I always take a little extra time to talk about SA and the good they do.
Yeah, other organizations do some good things, but when you look at CEO salaries, and how much of what is donated actually goes to the cause - SA is the clear winner here and is where I donate to the most and donate my clothes etc
 
The Chick-fil-a article was on Drudge last night, and then it wasn’t. It’s sort of buried at WRAL, and doesn’t seem to appear at the N&O, at least on the headline front page you can see as a non-subscriber. Drudge was linking some obscure web news outlet, but WRAL was linking AP.

They had multi year commitments giving to multiple faith based organizations. $2.4MM in 2017, and 2018 to Fellowship of Christian Athletes, and $165,000 in those years to The Salvation Army. A third organization was mentioned that I didn’t recognize.

If the reporting was at all accurate the decision by the Salvation Army’s president (who has been with them for 40 years) was based on the heat they have been getting internationally because these organizations do not support gay marriage.

The whole thing saddens me that an organization would be shunned on a global scale (not that it hurt their sales, in the US at least) for their philanthropic efforts.
 
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My family has a few generations of history with the salvation army - first on the receiving end, then on the volunteering end, now my sister and her husband are on the "take a vow of poverty and run a church/community center" end.
They take a LOT of heat from people who don't understand much. people on all sides even. to the point where my bro-in-law has been called a nazi for having tattoos BY the people he was actively helping at the time.
Believe me, the people running the centers are NOT getting rich off your donations. They struggle to keep their head above water, and that's WITH their house being owned/paid for by the church (they can be relocated to any place in the world at any time the org decides they're the right ones for that spot). Their oldest (of 2) kid just turned 18 so they lost some of their money for having a minor dependent. Bless that boy for getting a part time job to help out and going to a small local college instead of the large out-of-state college he was accepted to. He's a good kid. so i bought him all the parts to build his own Aero rifle and then taught him how to build it for his 18th.

For fun stories, take a SA captain out to dinner and ask for stories about kettle workers - not enough people volunteer to stand out and ring the bell, so sometimes they have to open up temp jobs - and then deal with workers trying to steal the money constantly, getting drunk and passing out and leaving the kettle unattended, getting reports of hired bell-ringers doing all sorts of awful things, etc.

And yeah, it absolutely sucks that "The Sal" is taking so much heat for having a biblical view on homosexuality, but not even factoring it in to who they help.
 
The Combined Federal Campaign "newspaper" of charities might be a better place to get info on charities than a meme on Facebook.
It gives a description of the charity, what categories of services it offers, as well as a number (the AFR) representing the percentage of donation dollars that cover administrative costs.
The pdf posted here is the one specifically for the Carolinas region. It contains info on some smaller localized charities of the Carolinas along with the big national level charities.

If you selflessly give unto others, may God bless you tenfold.
 

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How could you possibly forget them, they have forward positions outside the grocery store and ring those bells like they want to be a 1930s fire engine when they grow up.
 
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