Catatonic
Nine Lives
Management should not be irritating you. That is my point. Give me the info, let me decide, and stand down. My charitable contributions are personal. It is what it is.
Let me ask you Hoaxter- do you give at such high levels because you get a warm fuzzy feeling inside, or because you genuinely want to help someone less fortunate than yourself? Since you're a self- described pragmatist, perhaps it is for the tax deduction.
All three but most of what I give is not tax deductible.
I work on Habitat builds, do work for agencies, help at church, mow older people's yards who can't do it themselves (wife does meals on wheels and I get candidates from her), pick up litter along a highway, etc.
I feel a responsibility to do these things ... maybe that's what drives me the most.