If you are like me, you visit a casino once or twice a year or you take a short holiday in Reno or Las Vegas.
Have you thought about where your lost gaming dollars go to? Does your chapter’s charity receive BC gaming funds?
In 1999 the BC government signed a Memorandum of Agreement with BC [...]
The BC Government owes BC Charities $1,279,566.670 plus interest. In 1999 an agreement was made with the BC Government, the UBCN and the BCACG (BC Assocation for Charitable Gaming) that municipalities would get 10% net revenues from community casinos and 16.7% from destination casinos and charities were to get 33.3% of net gaming revenues of [...]
If you are like most people you start to think about giving to your favourite charity around the end of the year. A better way is to think about it at the beginning of the year as you plan your budget for the coming year.
Instead of making one big donation or gift at the end of [...]
Having been snowed in these last few days, thanks to the wisdom of the Corporation of Delta’s decision to give its Maintenance staff a five-day holiday in the midst of the worst snow storm since 1990, it was a real thrill to have our newspapers delivered today. I am a newspaper junky–we get three in [...]
About one third of us who have great intentions of giving to a favorite charity do not do so. We become victims of one of the Seven Deadly Sins! I know I have one good friend who told me years ago that she had my letter on her fridge ready to send my favourite charity [...]
With our wildly volatile stock market, some of you are probably wondering how you can support your favourite charity and survive. Well, being Canadians, we are creative. Usually people think of giving gifts of securities at year end when they take account of their tax situation and revamp their portfolio. Now you can think about [...]
