Katrina donations - doubly matched

In article <[email hidden]>,

Bob (this one) said:

I went to the web site and it's up there.

Pastorio
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Barry Manilow Relief fund

http://www.manilowfund.com/
"Barry and the Manilow Fund for Health and Hope have both agreedŠ.
You donate $1.00Š Barry will match your $1.00Š and the Manilow Fund will
match another $1.00Š. so your one dollar becomes $3.00.
Barry and the Manilow Fund will match up to a max of $50,000 each just
like before so we can reach our goal of $150,000."

B-b-but...
Barry Manilow SUCKS! :-(
They have used his music for torture!

None the less, thanks for posting that link. :-)
--
Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-[censored]." -Jack Nicholson

OmManiPadmeOmelet said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Bob (this one) said:

I went to the web site and it's up there.

Pastorio
--------------------
Barry Manilow Relief fund

http://www.manilowfund.com/
"Barry and the Manilow Fund for Health and Hope have both agreedŠ.
You donate $1.00Š Barry will match your $1.00Š and the Manilow Fund will
match another $1.00Š. so your one dollar becomes $3.00.
Barry and the Manilow Fund will match up to a max of $50,000 each just
like before so we can reach our goal of $150,000."

B-b-but...
Barry Manilow SUCKS! :-(
They have used his music for torture!

Yeah, but think of it this way: every dollar you donate to the
hurricane victims means another dollar Barry doesn't have. Revenge for
elevator music! Who would have thought?

--
Josh

"This is a devastating storm. This is a storm that's
going to require immediate action now." -George W. Bush,
four days after Hurricane Katrina

You're providing relief from Barry Manilow?

Oh Bob! I always knew. That gruff exterior is just a cover.

<<sobs and clutches tear sodden hanky to her breast>>

Bob (this one) said:

I went to the web site and it's up there.

Pastorio
--------------------
Barry Manilow Relief fund

http://www.manilowfund.com/
"Barry and the Manilow Fund for Health and Hope have both agreed....
You donate $1.00... Barry will match your $1.00... and the Manilow Fund will
match another $1.00.... so your one dollar becomes $3.00.
Barry and the Manilow Fund will match up to a max of $50,000 each just
like before so we can reach our goal of $150,000."

In article <[email hidden]>,

Josh Hill said:

OmManiPadmeOmelet said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Bob (this one) said:

I went to the web site and it's up there.

Pastorio
--------------------
Barry Manilow Relief fund

http://www.manilowfund.com/
"Barry and the Manilow Fund for Health and Hope have both agreedŠ.
You donate $1.00Š Barry will match your $1.00Š and the Manilow Fund will
match another $1.00Š. so your one dollar becomes $3.00.
Barry and the Manilow Fund will match up to a max of $50,000 each just
like before so we can reach our goal of $150,000."

B-b-but...
Barry Manilow SUCKS! :-(
They have used his music for torture!

Yeah, but think of it this way: every dollar you donate to the
hurricane victims means another dollar Barry doesn't have. Revenge for
elevator music! Who would have thought?

<grins>
True...
--
Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-[censored]." -Jack Nicholson

My employer is also doing a double match for donations.

I took advantage of this offer to leverage my gift.

We all should do something.

Tony Wesley said:

My employer is also doing a double match for donations.

I took advantage of this offer to leverage my gift.

We all should do something.

If you have stocks that you have held at least a year and have
appreciated significantly, most charities will accept them as donations.
This way, you write off the entire value of the stock without having
to pay capital gains tax. (if you have stocks that you've taken a loss
on, you should sell them first and donate the proceeds.)

If your stock with the big capital gain is one you really don't want to
get rid of yet, donate it anyway and buy back the same number of
shares and you will have increased your cost basis by the amount of the
capital gains (avoiding the tax when you do eventually sell the position.)

My employer does not match gifts to agencies like the American Red
Cross, Salvation Army, United Way, etc. They do match contributions to
hospitals and to most "The Arts" NPO's. So [this has nothing to do with
Katrina, it's just an example] I'm gonna make a donation of stock to a
cancer research hospital like M.D. Anderson or Sarah Cannon instead of
the American Cancer Society and it will qualify for the match.

I haven't figured out how to work the system to get the match for
Katrina relief. Maybe I can make a gift directly to a hospital in Baton
Rouge or Jackson, Mississippi...

Best regards,
Bob