{"id":8,"date":"2009-09-08T11:47:47","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T15:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/67.223.98.194\/~uschar\/blog\/?p=8"},"modified":"2009-09-08T11:47:47","modified_gmt":"2009-09-08T15:47:47","slug":"is-there-a-right-way-to-give-to-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.us\/blog\/is-there-a-right-way-to-give-to-charity.html","title":{"rendered":"Is there a ‘right’ way to give to charity?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I would say yes and I don’t think Microsoft is doing it the ‘right’ way.\u00a0 Being a loser in this ‘popularity’ contest is very depressing.<\/p>\n

Microsoft’s “Ultimate Gameroom Giveaway” is charity turned into a gimmick as voters decide which Children’s hospitals receive prize packages. I’m all for charity, but was it really necessary to guarantee a let down for kids in the 167 “losing” hospitals?<\/p>\n

The three hospitals to receive an Ultimate Gameroom through Microsoft’s partnership with the Children’s Miracle Network are chosen by a very public popular vote. Not a random raffle, nor a secret vote, but a public popular vote with results regularly updating on the CMN’s website.<\/p>\n

With 170 charities vying for the prized game rooms there will end up being 167 very disappointed kids wards.\u00a0 I would love to see Microsoft step-up and give them all a little something, even if it is a smaller less expensive room.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I would say yes and I don’t think Microsoft is doing it the ‘right’ way.\u00a0 Being a loser in this ‘popularity’ contest is very depressing. Microsoft’s “Ultimate Gameroom Giveaway” is charity turned into a gimmick as voters decide which Children’s hospitals receive prize packages. I’m all for charity, but was it really necessary to guarantee […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charitycar.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}