Round up to fight childhood cancer?

Botched poll here: Round up to fight childhood cancer?

I voted no, those kids deserve it.

No, because I hate payment point emotional blackmail. I have also very much done my bit for paediatric cancer research over the years.

No, because I hate payment point emotional blackmail. I have also very much done my bit for paediatric cancer research over the years.

No, why should I trust a for-profit company to forward 100% of contributions when I can donate directly? Even they did and we're fully transparent, why give that corporation a tax break?

Ugh that last sentence. Even if they did and were fully transparent....

I have been told this is a tax write-off for the companies involved and this is what I tell myself as I try and fail to de-guilt myself before inevitably pressing "yes"

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xp: stores don't get to write these off on their taxes - the customer/donor does! But for it to make sense, you'd have to already be itemizing your deductions, and THEN saving all of your grocery/pharmacy/home improvement store receipts for a calendar year with $0.45 donation here and a $0.73 donation there...

Still, I've started saying yes to it lately. A friend was recently diagnosed with cancer, right when our grocery store's partnership with the Johns Hopkins Cancer Center kicked off. The emotion of the moment got to me, and I was just like, please take as much of my money as possible to destroy cancer. Although I do sometimes make direct charitable donations (usually in a $25-$100 range), those are kind of an exception, rather than the rule. OTOH, I'm at the grocery store 3-4 times a week and have just been giving my change every time for the past couple months.

A lot of non-profits make it possible to donate small amounts on a recurring basis, to similarly ease the pain of giving. So you can give like $10 a month instead of $120 all at once. I've done that a couple of times, but hated having to figure out how to cancel my recurring donation (even though the cancellation process was ultimately painless - it's more about the thought process of figuring out how to do it that bothered me).

: stores don't get to write these off on their taxes - the customer/donor does! 

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