“Re: donations to people unknown”

On 7/25/05, Brian Andresen said:

>>this reinforces my growing belief that people will usually only
>>donate if they know you. In the last three years there have been very
>>few exceptions to that rule.
>
>I subscribe to that idea in my own charitable giving, not because of
>an explicit decision but simply because it's what makes sense to me.
>
>I'm curious whether you donate money to (or via) people you don't know?

First, I'd like to point out that this was only an observation, not a complaint. Not at all.

My charitable donations are almost always time, rather than money. Since the time goes directly to the organizations I support (my home ecclesia, the PMC, the American Cancer Society) rather than to or through a particular person, I can't really answer your question.

I occasionally make small donations through people I don't know, but they're always small.

Still, I would have thought that with thousands and thousands of readers, at least one would have made some sort of donation. Oh well.

Seth