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Ralph Mowery

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I have saved all charitable requests received in the mail since about the middle of October, just for curiosity. As of this morning, I have more than 40 requests for support. There may be some duplicates in the pile, I didn't make any effort to sort out and throw out duplicates. I use Charity Navigator as my primary screening tool, as well as those local charities my wife and I are personally acquainted
with. It still is a huge amount of effort to relieve my wife and myself of our hard-earned pension and savings. What do other folks do?

I toss all requests in the trash. I have been known to that if some
come with envelops with retrun postage on them to put some of the other
requwsts in them and mail them back.

Being retired seems to attract the bulk mailing.

I do donate to some of the local things like Resque squand and fire
departments.

I just refuse to donate to any organization that the leaders are getting
way over $ 100,000 a year. Not sure what the Clinton Foundation is, but
when they can afford to pay their daughter $ 900,000 to start, they do
not need my donation.
Many of the charitias are just a way to keep the money. The leaders
take out big money for theirselves and just send out a small amount.