A local business would like to contribute $25 per sale to a charitable organization. This would generate approximately $8,000 per month of donations and at the end of the year they would probably donate an additional lump sum contribution. They would prefer the funds to go to their community (Dade, Broward, Palm Beach Counties, Florida) but all suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.
2007-03-11 05:04:54 · 13 answers · asked by leslie 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Community Service
The business should look for a tie in to what they do and look for needs within the community. For example a children's shop should consider charities that serve sick or homless or special needs children, a pet center should consider finding a no kill shelter or funding a program to provide veternary care for animals whose owners are not able to afford it or a free spay neuter program, a food related business should help the food bank or a local food pantry, anything home related should consider funding homeless shelters, the school homeless program, or a home reestablishment program. A business with many women customers should help a domestic violence shelter such as The Women's Shelter of Hope or women's health organization or an indigent clinic. This allows brand identification such as McDonald's Ronals McDonals Houses for the families of sick children to have a place to stay near the hospital while their child receives care. Another and maybe better possibility would be to set up a foundation or just offer grant assistance and let local helping organizations present their cause once every quarter and award a $20,000 or 2 $10,000 (or 3 $8,000) grants to the ones who are making a difference in the community. Examples of how that might work can be found on the Darden Restaurants site www.darden.com/grants
If you want to reach beyond FL into GA I can recommend Caring Hands Ministries http://caringhandsmin.tripod.com and Lamp Ministries http://lampga.tripod.com but I would agree that at least a strong percentage of your giving needs to be to your local area. If you want to reach out beyond that statewide, or FL GA or SE regional too perhaps you could split your year's giving keeping 2/3 local and 1/3 regional.
2007-03-11 05:33:39 · answer #1 · answered by A F 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
What a fantastic opportunity for people who have needs in your community and for the organizations that serve them! I am sure there are many worthy organizations where you live in Florida.
Since Florida has so many seniors living there--and many, many caregivers of seniors, too--I am thinking that perhaps the business may want to seriously consider assisting with meeting unmet needs of older and frail Floridians. Or perhaps help with funding a service or program that links older people with younger ones. (inter-generational programs such as Foster Grandparents)
I'm also betting the company would should want to find out what the primary unmet needs are and which organizations serving this population group provide the "most bang for the buck." If I were the businessperson responsible for making this decision, the first place I would go for information and ideas is to the local Area Agency on Aging serving these counties
Area Agencies on Aging plan and coordinate funding for an array of community resources that meet the practical needs of older Americans--and these groups also are keenly aware of unmet needs of the seniors and caregivers that they serve. There is an Area Agency on Aging serving every community of the United States. These groups specialize in knowing the the needs of seniors and their caregivers in communities they serve. They also provide objective and unbiased information to seniors and their families--they are not "selling" anything!
It is also very possible that the Area agencies on Aging in any of the counties you named could help you organize a way that business leaders and aging experts could work together on a way to distribute donated funds to several worthy groups that would maximize the power of the funding and also maximize visability for your company.
The Area Agency serving Palm Beach County is excellent and is known for many innovative services that help older Floridians and their families. The contact is Mr. Robert McFalls,CEO, at 561-684-5885. Website: www.areaagency.org.
You can also call toll-free 1-800-677-1116 to find how to contact the Area Agency on Aging offices serving the other counties.
Area Agencies on Aging don't have big budgets-- and appropriations for the Older Americans Act, the legislation that makes basic funding for community services for seniors possible-- have not increased significantly for about 25 years!
What an exciting opportunity! Hope this information helps! Best wishes and good luck!
2007-03-11 14:12:08 · answer #2 · answered by Sunny Flower 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I feel that they should donate the money to the MS Society. There are several people living in this country with MS and there are a lot of people in this country that are still ignorant of what MS is and the havoc that it can cause in someones life. I think that we need to donate more money to the MS Society so that they can put the money to good use in researching what causes MS, educating doctors and everyone else about this horrid disease.
2007-03-11 05:18:11 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Any one of the 22 Shriners Hospitals for Children. They provide free orthopedic, spinal cord injury and burn care to children from birth to age 21. I'm not sure which county Tampa, FL. is in but there's a Shriners Hospital there.
2007-03-11 08:11:52 · answer #4 · answered by DSMUFFIN 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
wow that's a lot of info already.
please look into your autism society
autism is still unknown and the society helps the family's that need it with money to buy what the child needs , the child i care for 'I'm a respite worker' just needed her fool ripped up and redone and at the same time needed a new mattress this family could not afford to buy the special mattress for their daughter, but by generous donations by loving people to the autism society, they were able to do so with out going hungry.
autism society
2007-03-16 14:04:45 · answer #5 · answered by yogi bear 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think the "safest" thing would be to donate the money to something that would help children or elderly people. No one could have a complaint about this and maybe it will encourage other businesses to do the same.
2007-03-11 12:58:45 · answer #6 · answered by Patti C 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Salvation Army? Shelters for the homeless? Food kitchen? Big Brothers/Sisters?
The United Way would have a lot of good answers for you.
2007-03-11 08:23:01 · answer #7 · answered by kiwi 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'll be there with my old toothbrush (only $1.99!), a couple snapped violin strings, ($22.00 - they're the good brand), and a bunch of odd socks ($8.00 for five, or $2.00 each). And both are great, but I'll have to say skewered.
2016-03-29 00:06:40 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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Good Luck
2007-03-11 07:23:19 · answer #9 · answered by toddk57@sbcglobal.net 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ultimate Frisbee Association
2007-03-11 05:12:01 · answer #10 · answered by John Redcorn 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋