Support all your favorite organizations from a single monthly donation

Givv.org is a site that makes monthly giving easier. It does this by letting you set up a single monthly budget for all your giving and divide it up across as many recipient organizations as you want. This keeps you in control, is more flexible, and lets you give to more different organizations than you ever could on your own. You can give anonymously and in small amounts. Tax records are easy. And you can see what others are giving to, which can help you decide what to give to.

People use Givv.org to give to important nonprofits, charities, churches, open source software projects, their alma mater, favorite podcasts, and more. It’s automatic, it’s easy, and it’s free.

Givv.org was created to solve the problem of too many worthy nonprofits, not enough time. You support lots of ideas and organizations, but it’s not realistic to give them all access to your credit cards for monthly pledges. Nor are you likely to keep escalating our donation amount every time you learn about a new cause worth supporting (you probably can’t afford to!). But if you can set a budget, then allocate it easily…problem solved.

The theory being testing here is that people will give more freely, to more recipients, if it’s easier to do.


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Who said the following?

“I believe that the CD will out-survive me as a format.”

A.  Tony Bennett
B.  Sarah Palin
C.  Steve Martin
D.  The new chief executive of Universal Music
E.  Steve Jobs

Answer

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Catholics, Mormons, Assemblies of God growing; Mainline churches report a continuing decline

The National Council of Churches’ 2010 Yearbook of American & Canadian Churches reports membership gains in the Catholic Church, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the Assemblies of God, among others.

The 78th annual edition of the Yearbook also reports a continuing decline in membership of virtually all mainline denominations. And the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation’s second largest denomination and long a reliable generator of church growth, reported a decline in membership for the second year in a row, down 0.24 percent to 16,266,920.

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Here’s the top ten if you are interested:

1. The Catholic Church, 68,115,001 members, up 1.49 percent.

2. Southern Baptist Convention,16,228,438 members, down 0.24percent.

3. The United Methodist Church, 7,853,987 members, down 0.98 percent.

4. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 5,974,041 members, up 1.71 percent.

5. The Church of God in Christ, 5,499,875 members, no membership updates reported.

6. National Baptist Convention, U.S.A., Inc, 5,000,000  members, no membership updates reported.

7. Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, 4,633,887 members, down1.62 percent.

8. National Baptist Convention of America, Inc., 3,500,000 members, no membership updates reported.

9. Assemblies of God (ranked 10 last year), 2,899,702 members, up 1.27 percent.

10. Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) 1(ranked 9 last year), 2,844,952 members, down 3.28 percent.

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