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Category: Godlessness
Posted on: October 13, 2009 2:00 PM, by PZ Myers
The Secular Student Alliance is growing faster than their income, but that could change. They just got a generous offer from a donor to provide matching funds, up to $50,000, so you can guess what they're up to now: funding drive! They're looking for more people willing to cough up a few bucks, because every donation between now and December will be doubled.
Help them out, if you can. This is the best time to get a good return on your investment.
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Posted by: Glen Davidson
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October 13, 2009 2:11 PM
And who's coughing up the matching funds? Could it be SATAN?
Btw, these things often happen because someone (in this case, Satan) offers to donate a nice stack of money, and the fundraiser says, well, how about if we turn this into a matching fund? The donor says, okay.
Which is well and good for the most part, it's just that there's a certain amount of flim-flam to it.
This is not said to discourage donation at all, which is important and good.
Glen D
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Posted by: forthesakeofscience.wordpress.com
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October 13, 2009 4:44 PM
I tried giving $5*, but it said PayPal couldn't verify my card (which is full active and has plenty of money at the moment).
*I'd offer more but I'm starting a monthly publication for my area that I'm going to distribute to businesses and doorsteps. It's somewhat costly, but it's worth it to get some rational words out there.
Posted by: llewelly
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October 13, 2009 10:20 PM
Uh, if your area is so high-falutin' that the doorsteps are literate, I suggest yuu distribute your rational words in an area not so thoroughly fortunate in education.Posted by: secularaugust.myopenid.com
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October 16, 2009 1:45 PM
Glen,
It's not Satan, but Todd Stiefel who has given us this matching challenge.
You're right that non-profits sometimes do matching offers the way that you're describing. This is not such a case. Todd has made it very clear to us that this is a matching offer and that he will not give a penny more than we are given between when the match began (10/8) and the end of 12/21/2009. There's zero flim-flam here. If you want to talk with Todd directly about this, let me know.
Forthesakeofscience,
I'm sorry PayPal didn't work for you. You can also use this page: https://www.secularstudents.org/node/8 to donate directly via MasterCard or Visa.
You're also welcome to mail any donation to
Secular Student Alliance
P.O. Box 2371
Columbus, OH 43216-2371
Thanks!!