# Can I start a thread asking people to donate money to charity

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**Created:** [May 27, 2005, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-start-a-thread-asking-people-to-donate-money-to-charity/305819 "2005-05-27T22:08:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2005, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-start-a-thread-asking-people-to-donate-money-to-charity/305819/1 "2005-05-27T22:08:01Z")

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[http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/a62f0fae0fedbaab0a8f9bf677082492.htm](http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/a62f0fae0fedbaab0a8f9bf677082492.htm)

In Darfur the world food program (WFP) isn’t getting the funds they need to avert mass starvation due to the civil war that has been happening. Can I start a thread in MPSIMS asking people iif they’d like to donate or click a banner ad (which will donate money to a charity) at these two websites?

[http://www.wfp.org/how\_to\_help/support\_wfp/online.html](http://www.wfp.org/how_to_help/support_wfp/online.html)

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[http://www.thehungersite.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/CTDSites](http://www.thehungersite.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/CTDSites)

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**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2005, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-start-a-thread-asking-people-to-donate-money-to-charity/305819/2 "2005-05-27T22:41:19Z")

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Let me take this to management.

your humble TubaDiva

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**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2005, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-i-start-a-thread-asking-people-to-donate-money-to-charity/305819/3 "2005-05-29T21:53:40Z")

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Okay, move forward on this, the usual thread.

Mention we said you could do this, that you asked for and received permission in advance.

You can bump this thread once as well.

We are doing this in hopes that it will indeed feed some people . . . The Hunger Site is well known and its bonafides are sufficiently established, that’s no problem (it was a Weird Earl once too). The other site is run through the U.N., so that raised some eyebrows, but under the circumstances, we’re giving the benefit of the doubt here. (Though doubt is in plentiful supply.)

May this feed some hungry people/do some good in this world.

your humble TubaDiva