You Won't Find Change in a Voting Booth
Dear Andrew,On behalf of the public school children we serve, my colleagues and I want to thank you for the $2,581.76 you generously contributed to DonorsChoose.org during 2007. We hope this consolidated acknowledgment will make your tax filing a bit easier.
Thanks to contributions like yours, it’s been an eventful year! Check out the top 5 highlights of 2007 on our new blog.
Here’s a formal statement to make this acknowledgment official:
Andrew Krucoff, your $2,581.76 donation is tax deductible as no goods or services were provided in exchange for this contribution. The IRS requires that you retain this receipt in order to substantiate the charitable contribution you may wish to claim on your income tax return.
Sincerely,
Charles Best
Founder, DonorsChoose.org
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No, thank YOU, Charles. Keep up the great work.
Of course this is just the tip of my conscious-mandated community service. It doesn't include the $500 and 50+ hours of volunteering I contributed through New York Cares. It doesn't include the camel, sheep and toilets I bought my dad, nieces and nephews from Oxfam. It doesn't include my Globe Aware voluntourism efforts in Romania, which ran me about $3000 when all was said and donated. It doesn't include the Charity Is: Water benefit I attended with models and Iggy Pop. It doesn't include the $50 I paid for the Seeds of Peace comedy benefit where I got to admire Chelsea Peretti from an uncomfortable, though undeniably arousing, distance. It doesn't include the $20 in pocket change I gave out or bought M&Ms with on the subway. It doesn't include the times I've talked to Brian Van in a bar which is most definitely charity. And it doesn't include the $850 pledge I made to the University of Maryland Alumni Association to become a lifetime member which obviously isn't tax-deductible because I received goods and services - like the backpack beer cooler they recently sent me, an odd gift given my year of graduation and zip code but if they Googled my name and found this blog, they know it's the PERFECT gift. Thank you, Testudo.
I'm sure I'm leaving out other stuff but WHO'S COUNTING?
Oh yeah, I work for a non-profit. That's probably another $20-30K I am giving up in potential salary to help make the world a better place. Please, hold your applause until the end of the year.
