28 December 2007
Tax Deductible Giving
Still looking for somewhere to send some of that voluminous excess wealth you've generated over this past year using creative financing in the hot hot hot real-estate market? I've got a few suggestions:
My personal goal is to get us to classical tithing levels: 10% of income to not-for-profit causes. We're nowhere near that, but with the credit cards paid off and a traditional 30-year fixed-rate mortgage that we can afford, we have been able to contribute more this year than previously.
NOGLSTP, the National Organization of Gay and Lesbian Scientific and Technical Professionals, works in the interests of LGBT science, technical, engineering, and math professionals and students. Among its current projects are its partnership with MentorNet and its being a founding member of the National Engineers Week Foundation's Diversity Council. I hope NOGLSTP will have a scholarship for LGBT undergraduate students in the near future. (Disclaimer: I'm on the NOGLSTP board, and I'm the representative to the Diversity Council.)
Ars Hermeneutica is devoted to increasing scientific literacy in the general populace. Its current big project is the Sun Truck, a semi-trailer mounted solar observatory that can be taken around to schools, mall parking lots, and the like.
The Bob Moog Foundation is trying to preserve Bob Moog's papers for posterity.
My personal goal is to get us to classical tithing levels: 10% of income to not-for-profit causes. We're nowhere near that, but with the credit cards paid off and a traditional 30-year fixed-rate mortgage that we can afford, we have been able to contribute more this year than previously.
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