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Reddit, what companies give at least $200 donations for charitable causes?

This is a little convoluted, especially when combined with my mid-finals brain, but hopefully SOMEONE on Reddit has some ideas for me. Ok, so I'm a second-year law student who based on various reasons has given up pretty much all hope on getting a paid internship this summer, and as such have turned my focus on the public sector. These internships are 9 times out of 10 unpaid, but luckily my school provides a living stipend for students who take these internships.

Unluckily, however, in order to qualify for the stipend, each student must provide something, valued at a $200 minimum, to be offered at the annual fund-raising auction. When I asked the administration for some advice as to how to go about procuring such a donation (keeping in mind that it's due 6 days after finals are over), the only thing I was told was to see if my parents' or other relatives' company can donate anything. As adorable as it was to assume that anyone in my family has or works for a company that's just throwing items at anyone who asks, I come from a family of teachers/educators.

Undeterred, I began cold calling any local business I could think of, but they too have no interest in throwing $200 dollars at a law school auction, and after I turned to the bigger chain corporations, I found that without a Tax ID number or K-12 School fund-raiser, I would be lucky to get even $50 out of anyone.

Reddit, I'm at a loss and I really can't budget much more time than an hour a day to this endeavor, as I have three more finals to take, 2 of which I'm not nearly as prepared as I'd like to be at this point. Any advice or ideas that anyone has will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Posted Dec 13, 2010, 7:12 PM UTC

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