Should I Donate My Car to Charity?
Donating a car to charity may seem like a perfect way to free up both a parking space and some extra tax dollars.
However, as several recent columns explained, transforming a clunker to a tax write-off is risky business. The IRS is taking a hard look at the […]

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Am I Contributing To a Fake Charity?
Isabel and Danny McLaughlin have been sending donations to a children’s charity to benefit an impoverished boy and his family the past four years.
Every now and then we are sent a photo of the child and someone will translate his letters for us. He is four […]

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How Much of My Donation Actually Benefits My Charity?
It’s tempting to buy something you may neither want nor need just to benefit your favorite charity. But most consumers have only a vague understanding of how much the organization will get when they buy products that claim to benefit charitable organizations.
Known as cause-related marketing […]

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