{"id":74928,"date":"2019-06-12T07:52:03","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T13:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=74928"},"modified":"2019-06-12T11:07:49","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T17:07:49","slug":"i-cant-think-of-any-reason-at-all-not-to-do-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2019\/06\/i-cant-think-of-any-reason-at-all-not-to-do-this.html","title":{"rendered":"I can’t think of any reason at all NOT to do this."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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\"Neuschwanstein<\/a>
Contrary to the insinuations of some anonymous internet critics, I did not buy Neuschwanstein Castle with funds donated to the Interpreter Foundation. \u00a0(Wikimedia Commons public domain image)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Just this morning, I received the latest quarterly AmazonSmile donation notification for the Interpreter Foundation. I\u2019m happy to say that Interpreter\u00a0recently received a quarterly donation \u2014 for, I believe, the period January-March 2019 \u2014 \u00a0of\u00a0$270.08<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0from AmazonSmile, all of it owing to customers shopping at\u00a0smile.amazon.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Now, obviously, this isn\u2019t a huge<\/em> amount. \u00a0We\u2019re plainly not in the same league as the Red Cross, the Sierra Club, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the American Cancer Society. \u00a0Our annual expenses \u2014 excluding the Witnesses<\/em> film project \u2014 run something on the order of $100,000, which cover such things as page layout, servers, source-checking of articles, and so forth.\u00a0 (See here<\/a> for details of the Interpreter Foundation\u2019s expenditures.)<\/p>\n

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Despite repeated allegations from certain anonymous critics, no officer of the Foundation draws a salary from it. \u00a0(We have two or three part-time contract workers engaged in production of our journal, none of whom is an officer of the Foundation.) \u00a0More to the point, and notwithstanding continuous\u00a0claims \u00a0from certain anonymous critics, none of Interpreter\u2019s budget goes to me. \u00a0Not a penny. \u00a0My wife and I are, ourselves, donors<\/em> to the Interpreter Foundation. \u00a0My fleet of Lamborghinis, my Rolls Royce Phantom, my platinum-plated bathroom fixtures, my Bavarian castle, my private Gulfstream G650 jet, my Bahamian retreat, my modest 18,000-square-meter chalet in the Bernese Alps, my shiny collection of vintage gold bars, my various motor yachts and my sailing schooners \u2014 these are all paid for on the basis of surreptitious money transfers from a quite separate organization that\u2019s based in Salt Lake City, in exchange for my apologetic efforts.<\/p>\n

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To date, AmazonSmile has donated a total of\u00a0$3,024.34<\/strong>\u00a0to the Interpreter Foundation.<\/p>\n

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Plainly, we rely for our existence and our productivity on other sources of income, chiefly (by far) actual donations. \u00a0But\u00a0$3,024.34<\/strong>\u00a0is still a tidy sum, and it\u2019s expecially pleasant to contemplate because the money comes entirely from Amazon.com. \u00a0It costs those who make their purchases through AmazonSmile nothing<\/em>. \u00a0 Absolutely nothing<\/em>. \u00a0(Of course, since it\u2019s not actually our supporters\u2019 or donors\u2019 money, it also earns them no IRS tax benefits, and we still seek donations.)<\/p>\n

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Enrolling and buying through AmazonSmile is quite painless, and I hope that you\u2019ll do it. \u00a0I hope that you\u2019ll do it whether you designate the Interpreter Foundation as the beneficiary of your purchases or, instead, select some other worthy charity from among the many on the AmazonSmile list.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s a really impressive number: \u00a0To date, according to the quarterly report that I read just this morning, AmazonSmile has donated a total of\u00a0$134,890,393.33<\/strong>\u00a0to all charities.<\/p>\n

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Not bad!<\/p>\n

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Here are a couple of easy guides to signing up with AmazonSmile and directing that Amazon.com send a portion of its revenues to Interpreter or to some other charity of your choice:<\/p>\n

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\u201cHow to use Amazon Smile to Make Donations\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cDonate to Interpreter via AmazonSmile Purchases\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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Please don\u2019t delay doing this. \u00a0Please don\u2019t forget about it. \u00a0If you ever purchase through Amazon.com, or ever imagine yourself doing so, this is a painless and cost-free way for you to benefit a cause in which you believe.<\/p>\n

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