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Oct. 3rd, 2007 01:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogI'm on a mailing list at work wherein people are going back and forth challenging each other to donate more and more money to our corporate charity for an annual event we hold to benefit said charity. (Yes. I'm being vague.)
That's fantastic. I think it's great that people want to give to a worthy cause. I just did that myself today, as a matter of fact. I took advantage of Sixapart's offer of a free $30 gift certificate for Donors Choose and gave thirty bucks to a teacher who's trying to collect enough funds to buy a video recorder for her grade school theatre class. That's great.
It's even better that I see people here where I work donating huge amounts of money to a charity that not only is a very good one, but is involved with something that affects a couple of very close relations to me. But I'm just amazed to see people donating amounts like $1000 or $1500. I've been thinking very hard about becoming an NPR member with a $100 donation, but haven't quite been able to justify that yet. It's an amazing thing to contemplate; being in a position where I could give $1500 to a charity. Admittedly, I'd like to be in that position some day, but it's going to take a while, and with neither my parents nor myself ever having had that much discretionary income, thinking about it causes this weird paradigm shift in my brain.
I swear; I'd be a really good rich person. Just one winning lottery ticket, and right after I buy the Rhode and the Kenosha theatres, spend about ten million renovating them, and sink money into redeveloping the downtown district, I'll be giving money to people left and right. Really. Please?
Here's a question for you. If you had the chance to invest a bunch (ten million or so) of money into a charity, or even better, a project, of your choosing, what would it be? I've dreamed for years of being able to revitalize Kenosha's entertainment district and downtown. How about you?
On an unrelated note, the more I listen to This American Life and other such shows on NPR, the more I want to be a photojournalist. That is such an incredible program sometimes.
That's fantastic. I think it's great that people want to give to a worthy cause. I just did that myself today, as a matter of fact. I took advantage of Sixapart's offer of a free $30 gift certificate for Donors Choose and gave thirty bucks to a teacher who's trying to collect enough funds to buy a video recorder for her grade school theatre class. That's great.
It's even better that I see people here where I work donating huge amounts of money to a charity that not only is a very good one, but is involved with something that affects a couple of very close relations to me. But I'm just amazed to see people donating amounts like $1000 or $1500. I've been thinking very hard about becoming an NPR member with a $100 donation, but haven't quite been able to justify that yet. It's an amazing thing to contemplate; being in a position where I could give $1500 to a charity. Admittedly, I'd like to be in that position some day, but it's going to take a while, and with neither my parents nor myself ever having had that much discretionary income, thinking about it causes this weird paradigm shift in my brain.
I swear; I'd be a really good rich person. Just one winning lottery ticket, and right after I buy the Rhode and the Kenosha theatres, spend about ten million renovating them, and sink money into redeveloping the downtown district, I'll be giving money to people left and right. Really. Please?
Here's a question for you. If you had the chance to invest a bunch (ten million or so) of money into a charity, or even better, a project, of your choosing, what would it be? I've dreamed for years of being able to revitalize Kenosha's entertainment district and downtown. How about you?
On an unrelated note, the more I listen to This American Life and other such shows on NPR, the more I want to be a photojournalist. That is such an incredible program sometimes.
