[exDemMom]

Gee, I wish I’d seen this BEFORE I made my charity decisions for the CFC.

Well, I’ll just have to make a point of dropping some money into the pot.

I saw a TV show a few years ago about an apartment building the Salvation Army maintains in Paris. They specialize in taking young women—many of them victims of abuse by parents or boyfriends, some of whom had turned to prostitution—and giving them a place to stay and a helping hand to eventually gain independence. The Salvation Army doesn’t just do its work in the US.

[LostInBayport]

Gee, I wish I’d seen this BEFORE I made my charity decisions for the CFC. Well, I’ll just have to make a point of dropping some money into the pot.

An alternative is donating items to one of their thrift shops. There is a distribution center I pass quite often and recently I got into that mode of "getting rid of stuff" and other family members got into the act. I've been dropping off boxes of clothes, books and the like that they can sell to raise some funds.

Those organizing boycotts of the Salvation Army are nothing more than a whiny group of spoiled narcissists. All they see is an organization that has the audacity to disagree with them, and for that they want it eradicated despite the good it does, the lives its saves and brightens or the charity it inspires. Truly evil people.

[balls]

“What is The Salvation Army?

The Salvation Army is an integral part of the Christian Church, although distinctive in government and practice. The Army’s doctrine follows the mainstream of Christian belief and its articles of faith emphasise God’s saving purposes. Its objects are ‘the advancement of the Christian religion… of education, the relief of poverty, and other charitable objects beneficial to society or the community of mankind as a whole.’*”

“The movement, founded in 1865 by William Booth, has spread from London, England, to many parts of the world.”

http://www.salvationarmy.org/ihq/www_sa.nsf/vw-dynamic-index/5F180AE9ED2270FE80256D4B0044DBA2?openDocument