Hats off to our donors. Last week $40,000 was raised for two charities in Orange County. Keep those donations coming in. If you own a vacation home it’s time to get involved … donate a week!
PRESS RELEASE
Denver, CO. (March 10, 2009) — VacationHomesForCharity.org, the philanthropy division of TheSociety.com, provided two rental vacation homes for local charities in Orange County, California. The two vacation home rentals were auctioned to the highest bidder generating in excess of $40,000 in charitable contributions.
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This Saturday and Sunday Athletes First is hosting a two-day extravaganza to benefit the Orangewood Foundation.
VacationHomesForCharity.org is excited to announce the owners of an 8 bedroom estate in Costa Rica will be donated.
Call it a hotel, call it a B&B, call it anything you want because the winner of this gets all of it. Casa De Golf rests on the 18th hole of the Hacienda Pinilla Golf Club.
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As anyone could imagine charities and non-profit organizations are in need. There are not many examples in history when times get tough giving goes up. It’s tough and even the “top” organizations are feeling the pain, even those with hefty endowments. According to a recent AP article
Neither the National Council of Nonprofits nor the Council on Foundations, both based in Washington, keeps track of how many of its members are struggling with endowments that are now underwater.
But “anecdotally, it is a serious problem. And if the current financial downturn continues, the problem will only get worse,” said Harvey Dale, director of the National Center on Philanthropy and the Law at New York University.
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To No One’s Surprise, Charities Are In Need
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