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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
poll: charitable donations
We need a discussion to liven up the board! I'm currently trying to plan my contributions for the rest of the year, so let's talk about charities.
What are your favorite charities to support?
Do you give time, money, or both?
Do you have a contribution goal you try to meet each year or do you just give as you feel like it? If you have a goal, do you aim for a specific dollar amount or for a percentage of your income (or hours volunteered)?
Additional comments?
Re: poll: charitable donations
What are your favorite charities to support? Primarily I give to the local food bank and DonorsChoose.org, but I also give to the Alzheimer's Association and a local low cost spay-neuter clinic.
Do you give time, money, or both? Money. I always say I intend to volunteer, but somehow I never get around to looking for opportunities or actually committing.
Do you have a contribution goal you try to meet each year or do you just give as you feel like it? If you have a goal, do you aim for a specific dollar amount or for a percentage of your income (or hours volunteered)? This is the first year I've set a goal, now that H and I both have steady jobs and debts paid off. I'm tentatively aiming for 5% of my take-home pay, but I'm only on track to give 2-3% this year. I either need to increase the amounts I'm giving or revise my goal.
Additional comments? I've been trying to donate throughout the year rather than all at once at the end of the year, and it's really helped my budget to spread it out. When I feel like spending money but don't actually need anything, I go "shopping" for projects on DonorsChoose.Do you give time, money, or both? Money. I want to give time but I haven't.
Do you have a contribution goal you try to meet each year or do you just give as you feel like it? If you have a goal, do you aim for a specific dollar amount or for a percentage of your income (or hours volunteered)? We're a strict 10% of our gross income to the church (they reach out and use the money for certain things I like--digital distribution of the Bible, local service missions, international missions, Haiti, etc). If we have extra at the end of the month we usually put any extra toward another cause--Food bank, March of Dimes, etc.