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Small Change. A World of Difference.

Since its inception in 2002, Modest Needs has yet to seek or receive any corporate gifts or large bequests.

100% of the assistance we've been able to provide to families in crisis has come from exceptional individuals: persons who in some cases need temporary assistance themselves but are willing to spare some pocket change in an effort to help their neighbors. The impact that these individual gifts have had on the morale of the persons who've made them - and those who've received help because of them - simply cannot be calculated. But given the value of Modest Needs' average grant (see Part III), it is possible to calculate the actual value of a one-time gift to Modest Needs, both in the month it is made and over time:

Amount of your one-time gift Cash Income You Immediately Return to the Family Tax Dollars You Save this Family's State Total Value of Your Gift in the Month it is Made Six months after it is made(1) 12 months after it is made(1)
$5 $20.65 $19.60 $45.25 $246.50 $488.00
$10 $41.30 $39.20 $90.50 $493.00 $976.00
$15 $61.94 $58.89 $135.83 $739.98 $1,464.96
$20 $82.63 $78.57 $181.20 $987.20 $1,954.40
$30(2) $123.88 $117.78 $271.66 $1,479.96 $2,929.92
$50 $206.50 $196.00 $452.50 $2,465.00 $4,880.00
$75 $309.96 $294.71 $604.67 $3,253.02 $6,431.04
$100 $413.00 $392.00 $905.00 $4,930.00 $9,760.00

(1) Presuming the family remains constantly employed for this period of time. According to what these families tell us, this is normally the case.
(2) $30 - representing $1 a day - is now the most common gift that persons make to Modest Needs

 
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