You donate to a Doper in need. Or to a charity. Or you buy food for a homeless person. Or you give to a ‘cause’.
Do you tell anybody? Or do you keep it to yourself?
For the most part I keep it to myself unless I have to explain something to others. I was raised that charity isn’t bragged about; if you give to make yourself look good to others that’s not charity (and it would feel to me like I was using them, tbh).
Oh – Thread inspired by this.
I donate anonymously.
I keep details such as amounts and recipient organization to myself, but have asked advice of others in the general sense.
This year marked a major change in my charitable giving and I asked some coworkers to help me think through some issues in selecting where to concentrate my efforts. Not sure the result will be an ongoing pledge of support over several years, but at least for 2016 the decision was made.
I’ll occasionally tell friends/siblings about a charitable donation if we both have an interest in the charity, but I almost never mention exact dollar amounts, just “a large gob of money”, “a small gob of money” etc.
I keep it to myself for the most part. If I’ve responded to a friend’s plea to support a cause, I may post that I’ve made a donation, but I won’t advertise the amount. I figure by saying I supported the cause may nudge someone else to do the same.
I’ve also been known to mention that I took a load of something to a charity thrift store, but that’s not exactly the same thing, is it?
I got a lot of shit from my friends for buying season tickets to a team I didn’t like so I explained that I donated most of them to the local little league but when the little league wanted to recognize me I told them not to. I know the zoo I support has some kind of donor thanks wall that I guess I’m on but I’ve never checked. I talk about my charity with my friends if for no other reason then I think the things I support are cool but I certainly don’t want recognition.
I rarely mention donations. If I donate it’s a personal choice and I don’t need anyone else to know about it. I don’t like when charities follow up on my donations even to say thank you. If a charity adds me to a donor list to solicit money later on I’m unlikely to ever donate to them again.
Apparently I have to join Facebook to find out what the thread was inspired by. Ain’t gonna happen.
Pretty much nobody but the IRS. I’ve volunteered for local charities, and seen folks I know don’t need it, take charity items. But I figure they are poor in spirit. I try to give to goodwill, habitat for humanity, local action groups. I have come to avoid church groups.
This year it will be no secret. As a Christmas present to the conservatives who voted for Trump in my family, each will get notified of the donations I made in their name. Dad’s gift this year is a $30 donation to Planned Parenthood, and my step mother’s gift will be a $30 donation to ACLU. Aunt Nancy gets the gift of $10 for Democracy Now, and uncle Ted gets the gift of donating $10 to ProPublica.
Sometimes I mention giving to worthwhile l causes, just to infuriate my conservative friends. But otherwise, no.
Actually, I don’t wan t my casual acquaintances to know I can afford to give my money away, especially if I don’t give them any.
Exactly this.
In a previous life, I gave to a community radio station.
They would send a thank you gift. A T-shirt with their name and slogan.
I wore it proudly, so I guess I was telling.
I don’t talk about donations and favors.
How about you just fucking tell us instead? :rolleyes:
No offense, but why not just describe it, instead of just linking to some click-bait video?
No offense, but it’s not click bait.
And the reason I didn’t describe it before is that anyone who cares what inspired this thread can watch the video. If you don’t care, then don’t click.
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The video is of a guy who leaves a wad of money with a sleeping homeless man. The homeless man goes to Target to buy a pillow and sleeping bag (among other things?) The original guy shows back up later, talking on his phone about not having enough money for his daughter’s medicine, within earshot of the homeless man. They talk and the homeless man asks the guy to watch his backpack while he goes off back to Target for a minute. The homeless man then gives the original guy money for his daughter, saying that he needs the money more than he needs a pillow. The original guy gives the homeless man $500.
Kinda a weird video for this thread, seeing as tho it’s click-bait-y and seems kind of staged (although I don’t put it past homeless folks to have that kind of generosity), and in the end the guy is putting his face with the donation.
Despite the video, the OP is a nice topic for a thread.
Anyway, most of my donating comes in the form of giving money online when my friends ask for it - whether it’s a charity they wish to support or some goal they are collecting money for directly. And I do let my name be known in those cases because I want my friends to know I care about them and support them. Occasionally I share the cause with other friends via social media to try to get them to donate but not always.
I often tell about blood donation just to keep my friends motivated and reminded about it but a good number of my friends have all sorts of reasons as to why they can’t donate (gay men, recently inked, various illnesses) so I stopped saying anything on that because I don’t want to make them feel bad.
My other regular donations that I give monthly (to animal charities) are not mentioned. There’s no need.