Funniest (and kind of sad) donor call I've heard of in a long time!
 

We have a donor who has been with us for a long time. She is 94 years old and fairly wealthy.
She was talking to one of my co-workers yesterday, telling her how she took all her children to Florida last year and not only did they not say thank you, they didn't remember her on her birthday!

She told CW that "If they don't remember her birthday THIS year, not only will she leave MAW her estate, she will give us all her jewelry too!

If only it was Elizabeth taylor!

Maybe they did remember and she forgot they remembered!

Have you ever had that happen, where people contest a donation on the grounds of dementia or the like?

What a bunch of ingrates.

or maybe she's really a controlling old crone who made them all go to Florida against their will -holding the threat of disinheritance over them- and then cooped them up in her decrepit old mansion, forcing them to endure endless character-building games of croquet and bridge and suffer her incontinent pack of mangy moggies?

Not so much contest as cancelled and credited back. We have a monthly donor plane people can sign up for and have donationa automatically deducted.
I received a call last year from the daughter of one such donor. It turned out her mother had been donating every penny of her social security money to various charities.

What is it that you do, Sheldon? If you don't mind telling us, that is. :)

apart from take pics of BJs you mean?

Well, in addition to that...:p:

I work for the national office of a childrens charity who's name sounds like Bake-A-Fish. :-)

Wake a bitch?

Bake a fish!? :lol2: So, you feed the hungry then? (you know, hungry, young men? with daddy issues?);)

That is so cool. I was gonna ask how can the public help then realized I could just go to the website, which I did. :p: I've always wondered, do these kinds of charity really help?

I have seen them grant a wish every now and then. When it hits the papers anyway. It usually involves sports figures or pop/movie stars or something like that. I saw a kid and his family go to Disney World once.

All in all, I think it's a good charity.

They sent a preschool friend of Hebe's and his family to go to Disneyworld.

When we went there last year, there were many chemo kids and their families wearing make-a-wish shirts. It's a little sad that they are singled out so, but yes, they do make a lot of good stuff happen for kids with cancers (and other terminal illness, I think)

It's for any child with a life-threatening medical condition. A lot of our kids survive. We even have a couple of former wish kids who work here in my office now.