As I hope you all appreciate, our family has been extremely fortunate.
Your mother has come up with a great idea as to how we can share a small portion of this good fortune with others---particular as the Christmas holiday season approaches. The concept is quite straightforward. We will shortly be sending each of you a check for $500. The expectation is that you will, prior to the holidays, find a charitable cause to support with this money. You could simply send a check to the American Heart Association or some such entity. However the hope is that you will be much more creative and make the effort to find individual(s) or causes that you can get directly involved with. The final step in the process will be for you to describe-presumably in an e-mail- to all of us what you elected to do with your funds. Should be fun and interesting. Merry Christmas!!!!
Mom and Dad
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Thank you for this oppurtunity. We are starting to research possible foundations/programs this weekend. Hope everyone is doing well and Brig, thank you so much for setting all of this up. Looks like Ryry isnt the only computer genius in the family....Love you guys.
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I just came across a great website, Charity Navigator that has a ton of info. on every charity out there, including a breakdown of what % of your money actually goes to the cause. Just wanted to pass it on.
http://charitynavigator.org/index.cfm
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