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$1 MILLION 19 January 2022. In 2002, I answered a bunch of questions about donating money. The answers then are significantly different from what the answers would be now, so I thought I would do it again.
You are given a gift of 1 million dollars. There are some
restrictions on how you can spend some of the money, as follows: And I would make a donation to the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in Kenya, the group that rescues orphaned elephants and rhinos and raises them to be able to return them to the wild. I have sponsored a couple of babies over the years, and would like to do more.
Give a large amount to The Lamplighters Musical Theater in San
Francisco and I would also give a chunk to one of the charities here in Davis
who deal with the homeless. This is a difficult question to answer. Obviously I would like to divide the money up and give it to the kids, but the question specifies ONE person, and I won't choose one person out of the three, though all three could use it.
And one person that I know, which means I
can't choose someone I have seen in the media who is doing good things.
The people I have known over my lifetime who have done wonderful things are now
too old or have died, so that reduces the number of people I can choose.
The only person I can think of is Sandy, the guy who runs the house where my
mother lives. He wants to build a new house for more clients and he is so
much better than the facility my mother was in before that I would love to see
him be able to do it. I would make the donation anonymously.
I think I'm too old to study something that formally. My
brain doesn't work that well any more. But pretending that I am 30 years
younger and my body in better shape, it would be great to use the money to join
with someone who is doing elephant family observation. Plan a trip to Africa, taking someone to help me move around, since it's not fair for Walt to have to do it. I have wanted to go on a photo safari in Africa most of my life. I want to see "the big 5" With $200,000 we could fly first class, stay at the best hotels, and get as close as possible to the animals. I want to stay at the hotel where my Facebook friend Suellyn stayed with elephants out her bedroom window! And we could stay at Giraffe Manor in Kenya and share breakfast with endangered giraffes. I could visit the Sheldrick Foundation in person. And, if there is money left over, time to take that inland cruise to Alaska I've talked about for years. I don't have to take side trips when the ship stops because everything I want to see is on the water.
The rest of the money is yours to do with as you see fit. What
would you do with it?
After I'm sure that is all set up so the kids don't have to take
care of me, I'd divide the rest among Jeri, Ned and Tom. |
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