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Donate stock: You could make the donation as a stock gift. The organization gets the $150 in stock — with no capital gains tax taken out — and you enjoy the full tax benefits of your ...
Baan Gerda; Beckstrand Cancer Foundation; Belarus Solidarity Foundation; Best Friends Animal Society; Bharat Sevashram Sangha; Big Brothers Big Sisters of America
Telethon was broadcast on TV One in 1981, 1983 and 1985, and on TV2 in 1988 and 1990. After the first telethon, the rest were hosted in large exhibition halls and indoor stadiums as the public soon arrived by the thousands to be seen on television and to watch the entertainment live.
WTAE-TV has run the Project Bundle Up Auction where local businesses donate products to be auctioned off, and the Project Bundle Up Telethon, where viewers call in to donate money. Businesses donate money and all of their proceeds from the auction and telethon to benefit the Salvation Army. In 2007, WTAE-TV moved the auction to the Internet.
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The Crusade has become a major local institution. For months before the telethon broadcast each June, grass-roots collection efforts are held throughout the area—from "pickle jars" at restaurants, to bingo games, to benefit concerts and hundreds of similar events. In the early days of television, local telethons were quite common.
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Wikipedia and its fellow sites are hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organisation based in the United States. Sites like Google or Yahoo are hosted on thousands of servers, with thousands of employees; we have around 800 servers and around 350 staff, and cover our costs through donations—almost all from members of the public.