Re: [AMC-List] charity amx

["Eddie Stakes" <eddiestakes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Interesting thread. Something not mentioned here however is what is called 
'charity fatigue' though. This is a interesting report out of all places, 
Minnesota:
http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=110475
Since the Charity AMX project was started however as mentioned above link, 
there have been a mess of monster tragedies all over world, and many here in 
US that have happened from the attack of September 11th, to Hurricanes 
Katrina, Rita and Wilma for instance.

This link below is a good example with many suffering donor fatigue:
http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=2&aid=90557

With many here in Houston is is simply Katrina fatigue:
http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm/bay/content.view/cpid/340.htm

Charity is charity whether in the form of a donation of clothes, money, 
food, or your time to help others. There is a good long list of businesses, 
individuals, clubs that have donated time, money, effort, sweat, parts, and 
other to make this Charity AMX a reality:
http://www.mattsoldcars.com/charityamx/

Yes, it has taken longer than is was supposed to. So have projects like the 
Big Dig! But on the Matt's Old cars link showing sponsors, that is rather 
impressive and note that the sponsors list was last updated April 2004, 29 
months ago. There have been a lot of people donate and work on the car that 
are NOT listed on that list either!

I may add while this project is not really in limbo, but sort of like a set 
of AMC vacuum wipers, slow, there have been a number of AMC things that have 
cratered along the way: whole chapters, AMC Magazine, AMCWC, and neat ideas 
that well, never happened like AMC Unity Club, AMC Council, AMCforum.net 
(which is back online), but there have been a number of AMC related 
fatalities along the old AMC road since Charity AMX was launched. We 
(AMCers) should be grateful to all who have taken a small part of their 
time, effort, know how, money, anything 'donated' to this cause however. 
While it still has a way to go, most projects do. And even more so if being 
done by nothing but people who are volunteering.

I hope this don't become a pissing war about who did what, when and who 
donated this and that. The last thing it would need is a Red Cross fiasco 
stigmatizing it, whereas those who may want to donate, would not.
Eddie Stakes'
Planet Houston AMX
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