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December 22, 2011 in City
Salvation Army makes final push for donations
Kaitlin Killespie
With three days of bell-ringing to go before Christmas, the Spokane Salvation Army is still $75,000 short of its $385,000 fundraising goal.
In the past week there has not been the same fundraising push there has been in years past, spokeswoman Heather Byrd said today.
“I think people are still giving to local charities, but they’re maybe being a little more selective,” she said. “I think people are being a little more tight whether they are able to donate or not.”
If everyone in Spokane put a dollar in a kettle before Christmas, Byrd said, the Salvation Army would raise twice its fundraising goal.
“Hopefully people will be out doing that last-minute stuff and look to the red kettles,” she said.
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Rod_Foss on December 22 at 3:31 p.m.
Private Charity:
Works wonderfully in the USA as long as people are willingly to give from their heart and not under compulsion: From the Bible, this is stated in 2 Corinthians 9:7.
Why don’t we all “give from the heart and not under compulsion” of the federal or state government. Can we, personally, not afford something to help? I believe we can. But that’s just me. I say we don’t need forced governmental…”aid”…to help our friends, neighbors, our broader community. Given the opportunity, we could do great, in ways that matter most to the human beings being helped, if the government would just get out of the way.
greenlibertarian on December 22 at 3:41 p.m.
Of course Rod would bring back the forced Poor-Houses and the like, debtors’-prisons, modern day Hoover-villes etc.
The ignorant like Rod have no sense of history. A bible verse is the solution to EVERYTHING!. It’s a MIRACLE!
Rod_Foss on December 22 at 4:24 p.m.
Green: Hey pal! Leave it to you to spoil an “everybody” invitation to give to the needy through the SALVATION ARMY, per the story above.
My point is a proof-positive, if people will give it a chance. Are you saying, to contradict me, that people should not give to the Salvation Army, for the purpose of ensuring that the government is the SUPREME giver of…”charity?”