It’s a good cause; if i have heard that phrase once, i have heard it a million times. How do you know if a cause is good enough to support. Hmmmmmmmmm…you really dont. 🙂 You have to trust your own instincts. How is that for clarity?
With the economy being so depressed and everyone feeling the pinch…schools, churches, communities, and organizations are pulling out all the stops when it comes to fundraising.
Every young child that comes to get you to purchase a non-essential item to help fund a band booster program, scouts needing to sell more and more items each year to provide a positive influence on the girls , communities trying to fund activity centers to keep kids off the streets and out of trouble, the groups fighting a debilitating illness or disease; the list goes on and on, and the needs of each group or individual are no less important than the one before them.
What it really comes down to is, that most of these causes are good ones, it is true. So, how do you decide where to throw your own dwindling funds? Personally, i have to make a judgement call; which cause most affects those that i care about?
Often, i have to remind myself that those causes don’t just need MONEY; they volunteers, organizers, fundraisers, problem solvers etc. So, if lack of money is an issue…maybe there is another way you can support the “Good Cause”. Don’t just file the request in the back of your to do list…get creative if the cause pulls at your heart strings; make a commitment…find another way to “donate to the cause” whatever that cause may be!
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