[Magdalen] Birthday donation site?

[Grace Cangialosi]

Thanks, Jim, I didn’t see this at first.

> On Nov 13, 2017, at 2:22 AM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I have requested that those who want to give me a Xmas present make a
> donation to a charity such as the USO, and I will give the full URL for the
> page where one can donate to that charity. You will probably be able to
> find the exact page one needs in order to donate, so the donor does not
> have to go through a menu, but opens directly to that page. In some cases,
> the site is set up so that the exact page is not in the URL, and in that
> event, you would give the URL, and then give precise directions for how to
> get to the page that concerns making donations.
> 
> I like this because I can take all the work out of it for the other person,
> I'm pretty sure the URL is right, and one hundred per cent of the donation
> goes to the charity. If you were to go through some third-party site,
> something like six to fifteen per cent of the donation is going to be kept
> by that site for operating expenses.
> 
> Also, and this is just me, if I got a request to make a donation to some
> third-party site, I would probably do a check to see whether it is a
> reputable site, so this does take time. Perfectly well-intentioned people
> will pass along a URL they believe to be okay -- except that, unbeknownst
> to them, it isn't.
> 
> James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
> *“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
> except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy
> 
> On Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 9:57 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> I have noticed that some of you have posted something on FaceBook to let
>> people donate to a charity in your name in lieu of birthday gifts. A friend
>> was asking me this evening how to do that, and I didn’t know.
>> Could someone enlighten me, please?
>> You can answer me here off list or message me on FB.
>> Thanks,
>> Grace