Mercy House today announced that it has been selected as a Neighborhood Builder, part of Bank of America’s national philanthropic recognition program that provides $200,000 to high impact nonprofits. Every year, through it’s Neighborhood Excellence Initiative, Bank of America selects two outstanding nonprofit/charitable organizations in 45 markets to benefit from the Neighborhood Builders Program. Read full article…
October 2011 Personal Net Worth
The big thing you’ll notice about this month’s net worth update is the increase across the board across all equity (stocks) related accounts. Net worth can rise and fall pretty quickly if you’ve got a significant portion of your financial portfolio in stocks like me. I’m young, I don’t mind it. The previous three months have been pretty tough (saw negative returns) so this month is a welcomed change, with all accounts rising an average of 7%.
Property Taxes – As you know, we pay our own property taxes (we don’t escrow) and so we have to save this ourselves. We create multiple savings accounts with ING Direct and each month I manually transfer $350 over to this account. I just receiv
Massive rally swamps Tel Aviv
Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Israel’s financial capital and across the country to protest against economic injustice. The protest’s organizers are demanding that the Knesset rewrite the 2012 budget “taking into account the demands of
The latest rally comes after a wave of social protests swept Israel over the summer and culminated in September, when half a million Israelis came out onto the streets. But since then, the movement has slowly died out as protesters returned to their daily lives.
Google Plus Adds New Features
Google+ added three new features this week that, while not earth shattering, offer some additional functionality for the reported 40 million or so users of the network.
What’s Hot – this is a pretty simple add and allows users to see what public posts are getting the most s, comments and +1s. It’s the answer to Twitter’s Trending Tweets in a way. Expect popular posts to get even more popular once everyone has access to them.
Ripples – this add gives users a nice graphical way to view the history of a post. Simple fi
Owner of NYC protest park navigates a dilemma
For the activists of Occupy Wall Street, the plaza of Zuccotti Park has become their home away from home. But its safe to say the corporation that owns the plaza never envisioned having these kinds of houseguests.
Brookfield Office Properties owns Zuccotti Park, a granite space near Wall Street that, until recently, was a quiet outdoor plaza where New Yorkers occasionally ate lunch or relaxed on a bench.
Stamp Prices: The 2012 Increase
In yet another attempt to stanch the flow of red ink, the US Postal Service plans to increase first class stamp prices from $0.44 to $0.45 on January 22nd, 2012. This is the first such increase in two years, and it’s expected to generate $888M in revenue.
Unfortunately, that’s just a drop in the bucket relative to the losses they’ve experienced — $8.5B in 2010, and $10B in fiscal year that ended last month — but it’s a start, I guess…
Sharp-eyed readers will note that they actually proposed an increase from $0.44 to $0.46 that would’ve gone into effect earlier this year, but that price hike was apparently never approved. The current $0.
$50 Bonus For New Savings Account @ INGDIRECT Bank
Received an email today that ING Direct is offering a $50 bonus for anyone who opens a new business savings account by November 15th with Reference Code BSA403. Their savings accounts currently offer a 0.75% APY return which is a bit better than average compared to other banks.
Any type of business including partnerships, limited liability companies (LLCs), corporations, not-for-profits and small organizations and sole proprietorships (which basically means anyone with a SSN) can open an account.