Stalling charity contributions?

Posted on February 22, 2011 by kwilder

If you have any experience with your donation being blocked, or a charity you know being blocked, please do comment below. KW: I find this situation interesting. Wonder if someone should look into it for potential problems or background problems? Last night, my husband tried to donate to an environmental charity on-line. He tried with […]

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How to donate to Wikileaks (and story about Bank of America attack)

Posted on December 18, 2010 by kwilder

Kimberly writes: Bank of America has stopped processing donations it “believes” are intended for Wikileaks. Story here and at bottom.Wikileaks responds (see Twitter announcements in the middle of this post.) So…if you want to defend Free Speech, protect your right to spend your own money without interference from the corporate-elite-military-industrial-complex, and send a donation to […]

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Non-profits/charities wrongfully donate to political campaigns in New York

Posted on March 17, 2009 by kwilder

(excerpt from) The New York Times Charities Give to Campaigns, Despite Law By DANNY HAKIM and JEREMY W. PETERS /March 17, 2009 ALBANY — For more than half a century, charities have been barred by federal law from making contributions to political campaigns. But the news does not seem to have reached Albany. A review […]

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NY Governor donated 25K to Working Families Party

Posted on January 18, 2009 by iwilder

KW: As some of you may know, there is a healthy rivalry between the Green Party and the Working Families Party (WFP) in New York. Both are third parties that probably consider themselves “progressive.” (Well, the Green Party in NY is technically an “independent political body”, with not as many powers as a party.) The […]

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Donate to help China and Myanmar (Burma)

Posted on May 16, 2008 by iwilder

I am very careful about where I donate money. I decided to make a donation to Doctors Without Borders/MSF in order to give assistance to Myanmar and China. May 16, 2008 MSF Teams Working in China’s Quake-hit Areas © MSF Earthquake death toll in southwest China’s Sichuan Province has exceeded 19,500 by Thursday, May 15, […]

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