Here's some donation-matching foundations/businesses that caught my eye:
The Barry Manilow Fund is actually giving double what people contribute -- the fund itself matches the donation, and then, according to the website, Barry himself is matching the donation. So $1 = $3 thanks to the dude who writes the songs that make the whole world sing.
Whole Foods is matching in-store contributions, up to $1 million.
Amoeba Music is matching donations made at their stores. (Hec, time to go shopping!)
Best Buy is matching in-store contributions up to $1 million.
Peet's Coffee will match up to $25,000; donations go to the Red Cross, and you can donate online.
Steph, thanks. We need to get some groceries tonight, so I'm thinking we might make it a Whole Foods kind of evening. (Especially as what we need is cream, coffee, and olive oil.)
I was just thinking the same thing, Plei, except about tomorrow morning, and what I need is dutched cocoa.
Perkins, does your Whole Foods even have it? Ours does not.
However, lest you despair, the top ranking one in the CI test was the Hershey's, now relabeled "Special Dark".
See, there aren't any damn Whole Foods in Cincy. So, for the time being, I'm going to donate through the Manilow Fund, while it's still turning my $1 into $3.
Thank you, Steph. My company (ptuirichfuckers) is not doing matching funds, so at least now I have a place to oomph my money.
I haven't looked at this one, but the one in LA is where I got it for ita.
I have hershey's already, so maybe I'll find some other reason to go.
I am very proud of myself right now, by the way. I have a menu for the week planned, and a shopping list prepared. Tomorrow is going to be shopping and cooking day. It will probably be much more fun than Monday, which is laundry day.
Wow. That was unexpected, wasn't it, other than the he's 80 factor?
Guardsmen halt evactuation at Superdome to let Hyatt Regency guest queue jump
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At one point Friday, the evacuation was interrupted briefly when school buses rolled up so some 700 guests and employees from the Hyatt Hotel could move to the head of the evacuation line — much to the amazement of those who had been crammed in the stinking Superdome since last Sunday.
"How does this work? They (are) clean, they are dry, they get out ahead of us?" exclaimed Howard Blue, 22, who tried to get in their line. The National Guard blocked him as other guardsmen helped the well-dressed guests with their luggage.
