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From: Robert Tolmach - Earthlink < rtolmach%40earthlink.net">rtolmach
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Date: Dec 17, 2006 5:30 PM
Subject: [ynpn-nyc] ChangingThePresent launches
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All of you will be interested in www.ChangingThePresent.org
Here's the beginning of the press release. Full item at
http://www.prweb.com/releases/donation/gifts/prweb491475.htm
Best
Robert
New York, NY (PRWeb) December 14, 2006 -- ChangingThePresent.org, a
new nonprofit website, is helping nonprofits capture some of the $250
billion that Americans spend each year buying presents for one
another. Instead of buying more stuff, visitors are choosing what they
want to accomplish from among thousands of donation opportunities and
are making donations in a friend's name.
Every year, Americans spend $250 billion--$100 billion during the
holiday season, alone--buying presents for one another. "Imagine, for
one delirious moment, what we could accomplish if even a small
percentage of that gift money were redirected to nonprofits working to
make the world a better place."
This notion isn't so farfetched. In fact, it's already happening, and
a nonprofit website, ChangingThePresent.org, is accelerating that
trend.
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