{"id":1498,"date":"2021-06-29T08:01:40","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T21:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bleufair.com\/?p=1498"},"modified":"2022-04-10T09:04:05","modified_gmt":"2022-04-09T22:04:05","slug":"about-donations-to-charities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bleufair.com\/?p=1498","title":{"rendered":"about&#8230; donations to charities!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>wonder if you guys noticed that some charities set a minimum of $10\/- for donations?!<br \/>setting a bar to do good&#8230;?! literally means that being a good guy is difficult! lol!<br \/>i have been giving the petty amount of $5 to various charities over the years and i find that setting a minimum in the excuse of administrative charges for credit card transactions is absurd!\u00a0<br \/>charities can always ask donators to cover the % of surcharge which is not much.<br \/>setting minimum for donations actually put away people who are willing to give but are not so well off.\u00a0<br \/>besides, removing the minimum can encourage people to give more often and to many more charities.<br \/>i received marketing emails soliciting donations almost on a daily basis.<br \/>i also found out that in general, only about 60% of the donation goes into the good cause and the rest of the portion goes into the pay pocket of these goodwill crusaders. so for now&#8230; i won&#8217;t be ignorant and will only give my penny to a few that i think deserve my help.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>wonder if you guys noticed that some charities set a minimum of $10\/- for donations?!setting a bar to do good&#8230;?! literally means that being a good guy is difficult! lol!i have been giving the petty amount of $5 to various charities over the years and i find that setting a minimum in the excuse of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wellbeing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bleufair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bleufair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bleufair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bleufair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bleufair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1498"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bleufair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1500,"href":"https:\/\/www.bleufair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions\/1500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bleufair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bleufair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bleufair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}