{"id":176,"date":"2004-12-26T12:28:38","date_gmt":"2004-12-26T17:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/26\/charity-that-defies-economics\/"},"modified":"2011-06-15T17:29:24","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T21:29:24","slug":"charity-that-defies-economics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/charity-that-defies-economics\/","title":{"rendered":"Charity That Defies Economics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In line with the holiday season, Steven Pearlstein of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/\">The Washington Post<\/a>, details company gift giving and charity programs: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A23722-2004Dec23.html\">Charity That Defies Economics<\/a> (free registraton required or use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bugmenot.com\/\">www.bugmenot.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 0.8em;\"><em>This has been a tough week for Fannie Mae. But whatever you want to say about the company, its foundation has consistently been on the front lines of corporate giving in Washington. This was a record year for Fannie&#8217;s Help the Homeless Program that enlisted more than 110,000 people for various walkathons and raised $6.5 million for local programs. And Fannie employees rallied around the <a href=\"http:\/\/henrystrongingoldberg.blogspot.com\/\">Hope for Henry Foundation<\/a>, created by employee Laurie Strongin in memory of her 7-year-old son, who died two years ago from a rare genetic illness. This month, the Henry Foundation provided computers, Gameboys, portable CD players and the like to kids undergoing cancer treatment at Georgetown University Medical Center.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>UPDATES:&nbsp; after reading&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/henrystrongingoldberg.blogspot.com\/\">&quot;Dear Henry, Letters To My Son&quot;<\/a> recent entries, I&#8217;m off&nbsp; to watch<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0058331\/combined\"> Mary Poppins <\/a>with the&nbsp; family&#8230; <span style=\"font-size: 0.8em;\"><em><br \/> <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In line with the holiday season, Steven Pearlstein of the The Washington Post, details company gift giving and charity programs: Charity That Defies Economics (free registraton required or use www.bugmenot.com This has been a tough week for Fannie Mae. But whatever you want to say about the company, its foundation has consistently been on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-176","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":955,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions\/955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tuvel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}