Posted on 03/06/2021 10:41:02 AM PST by Reno89519
Where can someone donate clothes, household items, furniture, and other donatable items without doing so to an organization that explicitly aims at providing aid and comfort to illegal aliens?
Our Salvation Army does a great job re meals and shelter.
They leave the other types of donations to the local charities, often connected to a local church. The charities have no payrolls and everyone is a volunteer. We save canned goods for monthly donations. One of our church ladies collects bags with cans about once a month.
Donation of clothing with the ChiCom flu has been a problem.
We have several bags when that problem leaves.
A sister church up valley has collected Walmart and Safeway gift cards to give directly to fire victims and just bad luck re losing their jobs or being evicted.
I want you to pick up the phone and call a charity. Ask them that exact question. Let me know how it goes.
get back to me after you’ve done that.
Charities are not going to check on the status of people to see if they are citizens. So a certain percentage of their efforts will help illegals.
What I check is the level of overhead and how much of the donations actually go to the people rather than staff and overhead.
How was the question “detonating”?
thinking that you can control illegal immigration by carefully allocating where your old socks go is dumb. that’s just for openers.
especially after we just gave the senate away in a fit of petulance.
What is wrong with you?
Yes, locally here I donated all of my men’s clothes to a local homeless adult shelter in Truckee that shares them with homeless adult men in the area. Those went to direct, good use.
Maybe change that tag line?
the correct answer. sanity finally prevails.
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yikes. Thank you.
Smart phone + touch screen = Weird result.
We donate to our local no-kill animal shelter and for humans I give money to a nearby meals-on-wheels/senior services center. Both entities need help and are very appreciative.
good question. complicated and scary answer, I suspect.
It is nice to see that there are some viable options as many people have noted in the thread.
Bottom line, as with where we shop and what we buy, we should be giving thought to where we donate as well to ensure, even if only a small bit, that our actions follow our words. I personally oppose illegal aliens in the US, I oppose anyone or any organization giving them aid and comfort, thus, I should not be giving donates or funds to organizations that would do so. We might ask the same about opposing abortion and making sure our donations and funds don't help advocate or fund abortion. And, yes, we could and really should go down a laundry list of topics to filter what we do and support that might be contrary to our beliefs.
I guess one could go to the scary bits of town and conduct interviews for who gets the old pink floyd t shirts... but it’s rather insane.
You want to cloth the poor? just do it!
You could cut out the middleman and do it yourself.
You could cut out the middleman and do it yourself.
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