http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x4660895Oh my.
Skinner ADMIN (1000+ posts) Tue Dec-16-08 10:01 AM
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Help Feed the Hungry. Donate to the 3rd Annual DU Charity Donation Drive! (Double your donation!)
For the last two years, the members of Democratic Underground have joined together in a year-end charity donation drive, benefiting America's Second Harvest -- the Nation's Food Bank Network. As we approach the end of the year, it's time again to help feed the hungry. Again, we are donating to help feed the hungry. America's Second Harvest has a new name: Feeding America. Their mission remains the same.
About Feeding America (Formerly America's Second Harvest)
Feeding America is the nation's leading domestic hunger-relief charity. Each year, the Feeding America network provides food assistance to more than 25 million low-income people facing hunger in the United States, including more than 9 million children and nearly 3 million seniors. Our network of more than 200 food banks serves all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.The Feeding America network secures and distributes more than 2 billion pounds of donated food and grocery products annually. The Feeding America network supports approximately 63,000 local charitable agencies that distribute food directly to Americans in need. Those agencies operate more than 70,000 programs including food pantries, soup kitchens, emergency shelters, after-school programs, Kids Cafes, Community Kitchens and BackPack Programs.
http://www.supportfeedingamerica.org/democratic
DONATE NOW AND DOUBLE YOUR DONATION!!
DUer brooklynite has generously offered a challenge grant to provide a 100% match on the first $7,500 donated through our link! If you donate now, he will match your donation! Please don't leave all that extra money on the table -- Donate today and put it to work feeding America's hungry!
(If anyone else would like to make a challenge grant, please send me a private message with the details of your offer, and the words "Challenge grant" in the subject line.)
http://www.supportfeedingamerica.org/democratic
How to Donate
To donate to Feeding America, simply click on the link provided to go to their special donation page. This page was set up especially for the members of Democratic Underground so they can keep a running total of the amount of money we raised.
YOU MUST CLICK OUR LINK BEFORE YOU DONATE IF YOU WANT YOUR CONTRIBUTION TO BE INCLUDED IN OUR TOTAL:
http://www.supportfeedingamerica.org/democratic
Please feel free to share this link with your friends and family.
Feeding America will email me periodic updates to let me know how much our members have donated. I will post an update in the DU General Discussion forum (and on my DU Journal) to let you know how we're doing.
About your Donation
100% of your donation goes directly to Feeding America (formerly America's Second Harvest). Democratic Underground is NOT collecting or forwarding the donations, and Democratic Underground does NOT get any part of what you donate.
Donations are tax deductible. You will get a receipt for your donation directly from Feeding America.
Democratic Underground does not have access to any of your personal information, or any information about your donation to Feeding America. We won't know who donates, or how much you donate. All we know is the total value of all the donations made through our link.
http://www.supportfeedingamerica.org/democratic
The Charity Donation Drive ends at midnight December 31.
If you have any questions, please feel free to post them in this thread. We hope this donation drive is a big success!
http://www.supportfeedingamerica.org/democratic
David Allen (Skinner)
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Democratic Underground Administrators
Please kick and recommend this thread so more DUers will see it. Thanks.
It's all good, and one thanks my fellow alum for trying to squeeze some bucks out of the primitives to help those less fortunate than they.
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But one notices the absence of the gluttonous primitives from the cooking and baking forum, who allege to be "socially conscious," wearing their "virtue" on their sleeve, and then whine about pumpkin pies that sweat or chocolate chip cookies that burn, while Rhodesians are compelled to eat cattle manure to live.
Here's a nice little bouncy:
madamesilverspurs (623 posts) Tue Dec-16-08 11:18 AM
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8. In addition many holiday parties have donation boxes for food banks. The guests attending my party this last weekend were (as always) extraordinarily generous and the box overflowed. One couple donated a bag of food, and they have also doubled their usual monetary donation to our local food bank; and after discussions with extended family, instead of exchanging gifts with each other the entire family is sending that money to the food bank as well.
One of my Republican friends who has been coming to my party for years was so taken with the food bank idea that she not only brings food and cash to donate, she started last year to volunteer at the food bank every week. That's my Dem friends for you, leading by example! [sic]
One wonders if Chief S itting Bull, the bird-smacking stoned red-faced primitive, is going to do his "in kind" thing again, donating old out-of-date unneeded office supplies instead of a few bucks.
