A few months ago, I mentioned that I had donated to Donor’s Choose, a non-profit that matches donors with teachers at schools in need of resources.  It’s a very neat website in that the teachers submit their projects (which are of course reviewed and approved by Donor’s Choose), and the donors can browse and donate [...]

As I mentioned earlier, one of my goals this year is to give more money to charity.  But I want to be sure that I’m giving to charities that are worthwhile and perhaps have some personal meaning to me.  Over the weekend, I was surfing around the Donors Choose website.  Donors Choose is an organization [...]

I heard a very sad story yesterday, but it had a heartwarming ending.

There is a family in my hometown with five little kids who had signed up for adopt-a-family this Christmas.  They’re a hard-working family, a blended family with five children under ten years old.  Because everyone has fallen on tough times, they just didn’t [...]

The other day, I was talking to a friend who was thinking of making a donation to charity in his brother’s name as part of his Christmas gift.  I asked if he had thought about giving a gift card for such a donation.  He hadn’t heard of such a thing, so I offered to send [...]