I'm so glad you're with us today on the Clark Coward show.

You know, our mission is to serve you with advice and information that empowers you,

so you make better financial decisions in your life.

All right, here we are right on the edge of Thanksgiving week coming up, and we are in the

height of the charitable solicitation season, because we, the American people, are the most

generous people on earth. So how do you know that charities are going to use your money in a responsible way?

I'm going to tell you what you need to know.

Also, there are value deals, value wars happening in the food world that are going to make your wallet smile.

I like that.

So, don't have you heard recently there was a thing from the feds about one of those charities where you donate your car?

And supposedly it's going to charitable works and

money wasn't going there this one was called cars are us K-A-R-S and they said that the money was

going to breast cancer charity it wasn't and this is a constant

problem fact the problem has layers you give to a charity or a supposed charity and it turns out

the money either is being stolen or the charity, if it is a proper charity,

they're not properly handling the money.

And the money is going to insiders, maybe going to outside fundraising.

I mean, there are solicitations from charities

where 90 plus percent of the money is going to the solicitors,

not to the actual stated charity.

So this time of year is the Super Bowl World Series, the Stanley Cup, NBA Championship,

it's all of them in one for the charitable causes and the fake charitable causes,

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