Salvation Army donations are down
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Charles Burnett was ringing a bell in front of the Wal-Mart in Fairmount. It was Burnettâs first day, but the Salvation Army has stationed volunteers by red kettles for more than a hundred years.
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After nearly two years, thousands of truck miles and $12.5 million in storage costs, a cold relic of the flawed Hurricane Katrina relief effort is going down the drain.
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THE Salvation Army, facing a shortage of bell-ringers to collect money in America this Christmas, is replacing some of its Christian soldiers with automated cardboard cut-outs.
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This holiday season's retail conundrum: to silence the bells, or let them ring. As the Salvation Army kicks off its annual red-kettle program today, a growing number of retailers, from Best Buy to Target, are banning Salvation Army bell ringers from their doors -- to avoid having to choose between competing charities and out of concern for customers, they say.
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As she dropped money into the Salvation Army kettle before shopping at the Wal-Mart store on Alpine Avenue NW, Ruthann Bonney was happy to hear her donation will go twice as far.
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The Salvation Army&#39;s red kettles are being banned from collecting outside Target&#39;s 1,313 stores nationwide, costing the charitable organization an estimated $9 million in holiday donations and
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The Salvation Army has set an ambitious fund-raising goal for the holiday season. The organization hopes to raise $300,000 in its annual kettle drive.
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Chances are if your &quot;To Do&quot; list for today includes a trip to the grocery store or getting some early Christmas shopping done, you&#39;ll run into a Salvation Army bell ringer.
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It`s that time of year again, as members of the Salvation Army fan out across the Wabash Valley. It`s time for their annual Christmas kettle bell ringing season.
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In the holiday jostle, Salvation Army&#39;s red kettles have taken a spill. Target&#39;s decision this year to bar Salvation Army fundraisers from its 1,313 stores in 47 states ends
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An unidentified Lexington business has discovered that it canât make good on a pledge to buy gifts for almost 100 children represented on the Salvation Army Angel Tree at Fayette Mall.
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The loss of Target stores from the family of venues where Salvation Army bell ringers have stood at holiday time for years is going to hurt.
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Charity volunteers have been overwhelmed by donations for hurricane victims.
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(CBN News) - Target stores nationwide are banning the Salvation Army bell-ringers. The nation&#39;s number two discount retailer behind Wal-Mart says the red kettles are no longer welcome outside their stores during the holidays.
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Millions of pounds of public money aimed at helping the most deprived areas of Wales is being sent back unused, it has emerged.
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If it wasn't for churches and religious charities, a lot of folks would go hungry in the United States this winter. But while most churches believe in helping the poor, they take different views on how to go about it.
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The Salvation Army said Friday it has received a matching pledge from Wal-Mart Stores, which will match up to $1 million its customersâ donations to the red kettles in front of its stores.