Forget the China pattern: the I Do Foundation helps couples create a charitable donation registry.Long before Canada s Canada (kăn`ədə), independent nation (2001 pop. 30,007,094), 3,851,787 sq mi (9,976,128 sq km), N North America. Canada occupies all of North America N of the United States (and E of Alaska) except for Greenland and the French islands of alluring new options for gay and lesbian weddings hit the headlines, Sheila Allen and Alex Volin decided to declare their commitment to each other in a ceremony on July 6. The women wanted to ensure the event would launch the beginning of a life together based on giving. Yet, knowing their guests would want to give them something, they registered on the I Do Foundation's Web site, which helps couples create an online charitable donation registry. I Do is partnered with a number of retailers, including Target, Linens 'n Things Linens 'n Things, Inc., headquartered in Clifton, New Jersey, is the second-largest large-format retailers of home textiles, housewares and decorative home accessories in the United States, behind Bed Bath & Beyond. , and Nordstrom, all of which have promised to give a percentage of their proceeds to a charity of the couple's choice. If couples decide, as Allen and Volin did, to forgo gifts entirely, they can set up a donation registry directly with a nonprofit A corporation or an association that conducts business for the benefit of the general public without shareholders and without a profit motive. Nonprofits are also called not-for-profit corporations. Nonprofit corporations are created according to state law. . Under its social justice category, I Do features the Human Rights Campaign and Lambda Legal Lambda Legal (Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund) is a United States civil rights organization that focuses on gay men, lesbians, bisexuals, transgender people and those with HIV through impact litigation, education, and public policy work. Defense and Education Fund. "It was very important to provide services to [straight and gay] couples," says I Do cofounder co·found tr.v. co·found·ed, co·found·ing, co·founds To establish or found in concert with another or others. co·found Bethany Robertson. Same-sex couples A same-sex couple is a pair of people of the same gender who pursue a romantic or sexual relationship together. The term "same-sex relationship" may be used when the sexual orientation of participants in a same-sex relationship is not known. actually are "more active than some of our other couples and more committed to the idea [of charitable giving]," she adds. Robertson notes that several straight couples have selected Lambda because "even though they are in relationships that are legally recognized, they wanted to support an organization that would support the rights of others to have the stone rights." Find a link In the I Do Foundation at www.advocate.com |
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