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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Blissskr, post: 1595683, member: 34882&quot;]There is different &#039;toys for&#039; charities that I give monetary donations too each year or toys this is usually in my local community.</p><p>The reason for this I will say however is this and I don&#039;t know if this is the case everywhere with this organization, so I&#039;m going to generalize without naming specific names. A few years ago when I was a working as the LP/Safety manager for a large store chain and corporation we would have a toy drive with tree in store. Now I actually went so far as being our store volunteer with this &#039;charity&#039; for three years in a row. I witnessed first hand people buy specific gifts based on a &#039;certain criteria&#039; some of these gifts were quite expensive and our location would usually chip in between employees and corporate would match and we would purchase a good amount of these gifts ourselves. This was about five years ago the last time I did so needless to say we donated a significant number of certain in demand video game systems, hot toys, gifts, gift cards, etc. I actually also went and volunteered with the gift handouts for two years. This was an event basically using the local national guards HQ and filling it with toys and then having people come in and select gifts off tables based off tickets provided to each person coming in at the door. (These people were vetted some how through a process to determine need I guess) However, I was kind of appalled when I found out that pretty much all of the very nice high value gifts that were requested and we as employees, the company and our consumers had provided weren&#039;t present on these tables at all. It was rather an assortment of bulk what I kind of considered cheap type toys and gifts that parents were able to select from. After inquiring about this I was able to discover that the &#039;charity&#039; actually kept these specific requested gifts and then auctioned or sold them as someone I talked to informed me, to raise funds to buy these more generic gifts in bulk quantities with the supposed funds. This really bothered me the last year as I personally donated my entire holiday bonus to buying gifts off this tree and got all my fellow management staff to match what I did. After this occurred I brought this issue to my regional store manager and he took it further up the chain and our company actually ended our affiliated with this organization the next year and instead we set up a tree and provided gifts for local community charities that actually distributed the gifts we supplied or our customers did to actual children that requested them. Knowing what I know about this which some people may not consider a big deal I would be very cautious about donating coins from my collection to a large organization. </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; However, I would certainly sell or donate coins to provide for childreni if necessary but only through a local charity. In fact I do this every year with my wife and my brother and his girlfriend for a family in our general community anyways. The further reasoning is my brother and I spent a number of years in foster care due to the death of my mother when I was 12,my brother 8.&nbsp; Due to various reasons my father was considered unfit for and my mothers family pretty much considering us dead with her. Although I&#039;m incredibly thankful that my brother and I weren&#039;t separated form each other. We both spent many a holiday, birthday, etc receiving nothing as gifts and I know that&#039;s not the meaning of holidays,etc. But I really feel no child should have to experience what my brother and I did as youth which is why we donate the way I do each year. Kind of got of on a tangent there, but I would have no problem liquidating almost every coin in my collection besides the ones found metal detecting with my father to provide gifts for a child in need somewhere.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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