THAT END OF THE YEAR TAX WRITE OFF

THAT END OF THE YEAR TAX WRITE OFF

Sure, I already posted this, but like most media outlets, the last week of the year is the time to recycle like you're saving the environment. So enjoy it again, you filthy animals.

Since you're in the sort of festive mood and well, I guess I'm posting this a day late on cashing in on that whole good will towards your fellow man "stay off the naughty list" angle, I figured that I would tell you about two organizations that I care about and find worth the tax deduction effort in giving if you're in the charity sort of mood. 

FIX NATION -  For more than a decade now this organization has been helping out those little furry friends and I have used them very, very very often throughout that entire time in helping homeless and stray cats in need. Wow. in reflection, I probably really owe them a lot more than what I have donated to them in the past when I do the spreadsheet on it.

What is it that they do? They offer free spay and neuter services for stray and feral cats. They train you in how to use humane traps and then they also loan those out so that you can capture, snip snip and return the cats to the same colonies. As trap-neuter-return actions is the best in keeping cat populations down and is the most humane for them as well. They also partner up with location adoption services so the ones that do look like they can be socialized do find homes.

Trap, neuter and return tactics provide a means to control the population but also gives those strays a lot better quality of life. And the old method of just removing them from an area created a situation where new cats just fill in the void.

They also offer low cost spaying and neuter services for your own pet cat and given they are doing about 100 operations a day, you can bet they're pretty proficient at it. Look, the company is just really great when it comes to handling cats. They even put up an alter for Dia de los Muertos at Hollywood Forever cemetery every year so that you can put your feline friend's name that passed away. Call me silly, but that just gets to me.

Yeah, I can't speak enough about how great of an organization it is and how lost I would be in my own 10+ year adventures helping out stray cat lives without their help. So consider donating to them. Until the end of the month your donation will be matched. So hey, even better of a reason.

https://fixnation.networkforgood.com/projects/56844


The next organization is one that I have given to for many many years now. You probably heard the expression "Give till it hurts", well with this organization you can literally do just that! You can give until it's covered in painful welts. Hell, if you want to keep giving you can, up until it's throat shuts due to anaphylactic shock!


Heifer International is a Charitable organization that improves the lives of poor people around the world by giving them goats and cows and stuff, which they can milk, eat or cut open to keep warm inside like a tauntaun. One of their many animal charity drives involves setting up a Honey bee colony.

Stay with me here, What's so great about donating bees is that it scratches that itch on if you're good or evil satisfying both desires equally.

A.) You're paying $30 to help a family increase their crop yields and earn extra income through the power of pollination and selling honey for a profit.
B.) You just paid $30 to prank the fuck out of some poor people by unleashing a swarm of angry bees on them.

Giving Bees is good for the world, but you can totally feel like an asshole while doing it. In fact, you can feel almost like a super villain. Each $30 bee contribution buys poor people 12,500 bees. Yes, I actually looked into it. Which is a pretty good amount of bees. Think of how much more annoying it is to deal with that surprise box than one of those glitter bombs!

Just think, we can forever end poverty in the world through the power of bees! Or, if you're evil, take comfort and rub your hands together at the idea of causing thousands of potentially fatal bee stings in the countries whose medical care systems are least qualified to treat allergic shock! Yes, for only 0.08 cents a day, you too can instill the fear of bees into a child who already had finding food and shelter along with fighting off sickness as things to worry about.

Give till it hurts.... them.