Helping the sick, a car at a time I am of the mindset that if a charity is really good, I should give it more than once, often even for a cause I believe in. Why not support what you stand and without reservation to this topic?
A general question that interests me is the well-being, especially when health is threatened by the difficult life of injury or disease. No one is more powerless than a sick child or an older adult, particularly a failure as a result of their illness.
Renal failure is a disease that can strike anyone, anytime, regardless of their age or prior health status was. People regularly died of the disease, but thanks to modern scientific and medical advances, death no longer inevitable. However, costs for treatment of kidney disease can greatly exceed the insurance coverage, forcing people to wait or treatment rationing, which can be dangerous.
The National Kidney Foundation (NKF) has a rich heritage of helping the afflicted in the prevention of kidney and urinary tract, improving health and well-being of individuals and families affected by these diseases, and increasing the availability of all organs for transplantation. This kind of work takes money and one of the main ways that the NKF raises money through donations of used cars.
When the NKF receives a new car for the donation, they turn around and sell the car and keep the proceeds to fund their work. Donors received a NKF after the sale is over to let him know how much money was raised through the auction. It is the amount that donors can list them on their tax returns by IRS guidelines.
The NKF program is so successful that, during one year, 15,000 cars kidney recycles cars, a total of 60.000 million tires and 30 million pounds of steel astounding. These cars are better used than where most old cars end up: in the junkyard.
To encourage donations from now until the end of the year, donors KCF is eligible to win one of 25 prizes including the Grand Prize - a weekend for four at a golf resort in Pebble Beach, California . Donors can also get a chance to win $ 25,000 cash or one year worth of gas. Anyway, your donation is important at this time.
Since the program began 25 years ago, more than 650,000 used vehicles have pumped a total of 150 million dollars in rescue packages, including free kidney screenings for people at risk, research, the public education and professional and camps for children on dialysis. I had the privilege of donating three vehicles and plan to donate additional cars in the future.
Source: National Kidney Foundation
Posted on March 5, 2010.
