[Foundation-l] Accepting airline miles as donations

[James Hare]

Well of course it's a restricted donation, since it's a currency of airlines
and they have no cash value. That doesn't change the fact that a significant
amount of the budget is spent on flying people around, and this would allow
for that to happen with less financial consequences.

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 10:20 PM, Casey Brown <cbrown1023.ml at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 10:03 PM, Screamer <scream at datascreamer.com> wrote:
> >
> > James Hare wrote:
> >  > Greetings.
> >  > I have renewed my subscription to the Foundation-L mailing list to
> make the
> >  > following proposal.
> >  >
> >  > As you may be aware of, commercial airlines give out "miles" as
> thank-you
> >  > gifts for patrons who fly on a particular airline. Considering the
> amount of
> >  > money spent by the Foundation on air travel, it would be convenient
> for both
> >  > potential donors and the Foundation to accept airline miles as a
> donation.
> >  > Donors may find airline miles, which are gifts, easier to donate than
> their
> >  > own money, which they had to work for. Likewise, the Foundation could
> use
> >  > cash funds that would have been used on airfare for other matters,
> such as
> >  > server upgrades and staffers.
> >  >
> >  > For the purpose of disclosure, I would like to state that I stole
> this idea
> >  > from the Make a Wish Foundation, which accepts airline miles as
> donations,
> >  > presumably for the sake of fulfilling the travel fantasies of ill
> children.
> >  >
> >  > Of the times I asked others, I have seen very positive responses, so
> I bring
> >  > it now to the mailing list for wider attention.
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> >  Yes, I absolutely support this idea.  It seems like a restricted
> >  donation, or "donation in kind" which is always acceptable, and in this
> >  case, beneficial.
> >
> >
> >  ./scream
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> It doesn't "seem like" one, it is one, a textbook example. :-P
>
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