On 09/20/2015 10:15 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
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I don't respond to mailings or phone calls so that keeps it to a
minimum. The one charity I do give to on a regular basis does not share
info from what I can tell.

Your friend is probably doing some good work, but is probably tossing
money at sleazy operations as well.

I concur with the advice/action...select one or a few or as many as wish
that, after due diligence, you're satisfied are good stewards of their
receipts and which are supportive of areas of specific interest and
concern to you. You may safely ignore all the rest without fail or guilt...

If one or more of the selected happen to be local; all the better, the
"more better" likely increasing inversely with the size of the locality.

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