Last month, she said, the center accrued $50 in Bernal Bucks donations.
Each year, I would sign up for the Susan B. Komen Race for the Cure, even throw in an extra hundred bucks donation (as if throwing a Benjamin at the disease would keep it from finding me).
2. Streets of L.A. The band got booked to play a street fair in L.A. I think it was five bucks suggested donation to get in, and Mudhoney was on the bill too.
(And throw in hackers hoping to make a quick buck from Bitcoin donations and there's yet another strand in play).
Another drawback of most affinity cards: You really don't get much bang for your buck, in terms of donations.
But this year, 61 Democratic challengers for House of Delegates seats across Virginia have bucked tradition and refused donations from Dominion.
"Best bang for the buck you'll get in political donations in your life," he wrote.
If you got a few bucks to spare, there are certainly worse donations to make.
I think your donations might get more bang for the buck if they went to other groups that are working on similar issues.
Imagine, however, how much White House access that 10-buck vote would buy--compared to all those donations in the hundreds of thousands coughed up by movie moguls and Wall Street brokerage houses and tobacco companies and Indonesian gardeners.
