This National Day weekend, there are many retailers offering SG50 promotions in celebration of Singapore's 50th birthday. However, the most meaningful gift I have received is not in receiving, but in giving. I made a small SG50 donation today. To be able to make a SG50 donation on the day of Singapore's 50th birthday and dedicating it to "Happy 50th Birthday, Singapore!" is the most meaningful thing I have experienced this weekend. This screenshot showing the date, amount and dedication of the donation is forever etched in history.
Make your SG50 donation today! You too will feel the significance of this small but meaningful act. To make a donation to a charity of your choice, just click the image below. It will link you to SG Gives, an online charity portal. Just remember to login/ register as a donor to save this small but significant piece of history in your donation profile.
Just a wild thought; if everyone on this island of 5 million people were to make a SGD50 donation, that would make it SGD250 million. Add on the Government's dollar-for-dollar matching under the Care & Share @ SG50 movement for eligible donations, we would be able to collect SGD500 million! That would be a truly significant achievement for SG50!
Special thanks to Turtle Investor for his post on Bloggers for Charity for inspiring me to make such a meaningful SG50 donation today.
Special thanks to Turtle Investor for his post on Bloggers for Charity for inspiring me to make such a meaningful SG50 donation today.
Apart from donating to charities that are aligned to my interests, I like to take a peek at their financial information, especially staff costs.
ReplyDeleteHere is Halogen's: http://www.halogen.sg/home/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/HFS-Financial-Statements-2013-as-at-11-June-20141.pdf
Interestingly, I've also seen the financial statements of the various charities that I support. It was more to see which charity has less reserves and therefore needs the donation more. As you can see from the financial statements, Halogen's annual and accumulated surpluses are quite small, hence I plan to channel my donations for this year to them. Moreover, I like what Halogen is doing, which is to develop young leaders and entrepreneurs so that they can become positive change-agents and contribute positively back to society.
DeleteI have always find you one unique blogger; you hardly ever fail giving simple stats or maths for illustration. Keep it going.
ReplyDeleteIn donation to charity it is not the amount that you are giving but doing this with a sincere heart, this matters most. As Turtle Investor said "Doing our bit for charity can be a pure and simple act of wanting to help. We do, because we want to. We give, because we care.".
Thks for your encouragement and support! I also admire you for consistently donating part of your investment gains to charity. Those are not small amounts, which shows that you have a really big heart!
DeleteAwesome! Let us all do what we can, no matter how small or large our contribution might be. Interesting choice of charity I have to say, kind of like a donation that yields dividends, if you get what I mean ;)
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Yes, let us all do our part. Thks for starting this movement!
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