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re: $500K!!!Fundraiser for Athens County Food Pantry...Jeaux’s hometown
Posted on 12/17/19 at 10:00 am to Penrod
Posted on 12/17/19 at 10:00 am to Penrod
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Why are we donating to Athens County? There are much poorer counties in Louisiana.
Folks are voluntarily giving money because they think it will help feed kids. Why bitch about that? Who cares where they live.
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Posted on 12/17/19 at 10:15 am to Penrod
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Why are we donating to Athens County? There are much poorer counties in Louisiana. The first Parish I tried, Washington Parish, has a $31,000 median income compared to Athens' $37,000. And none of the poor people in Athens had anything to do with Joe Burrow coming to LSU.
This is one of those odd, irrational, sentimental reactions that are typical of mob behavior.
Just don't donate, Scrooge.
Also, I bet you haven't donated the first damn nickel to those people in Louisiana that you speak of.
Posted on 12/17/19 at 10:15 am to TigerCoon
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Why are we donating to Athens County? There are much poorer counties in Louisiana.
Because Joe mentioned kids not having enough to eat in his Heisman speech!!!! For what he has given us as a state and a fanbase, the least we could do is shell out a few dollars to help these kids out...
Posted on 12/17/19 at 10:18 am to Penrod
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This is one of those odd, irrational, sentimental reactions that are typical of mob behavior.
So if "mobs" donate money to good causes that's a bad thing?
Posted on 12/17/19 at 10:25 am to LSUBR
Just wanted to give come context behind this donation.
The Athens County Food Pantry isn't a food bank. It's what food bank's call a partner agency. Food Bank's around the country divide up service areas and their partners order food from the food bank. They all do it differently, but ultimately the food that their partners receive from the food banks is at a heavily discounted rate because food banks can buy product within their network. I guess the best way to describe it is like Costco, but for qualified non profits.
Food banks still need donations from the community, however they are able to employ staff to seek those donations. They have Development departments and grant writer(s) to assist with that. On the other hand, food pantries do not. Some are large and can mimic what food pantries do in regards to fund raising, but on the whole food pantries (or, partner agencies) are ran by people who have full time jobs or retirees. Ultimately these people are not employed and do the best they can do with extremely limited budgets and free time.
Donating to the Athens County food pantry is HUGE. Food banks can receive huge donations (ie any post hurricane response) and have fund raising events. Again, not saying they dont require the community's support, but what I'm saying is that this large donation to the Athens Food Pantry is unprecedented. The donations will help lead them to sustainable change within their community. This isn't the kind of donation this pantry would see unless they received a grant that's been written by a professional grant write and that's most likely impossible for partner agencies to accomplish.
Keep it up, Tiger Nation and Ohio! This is amazing to witness
The Athens County Food Pantry isn't a food bank. It's what food bank's call a partner agency. Food Bank's around the country divide up service areas and their partners order food from the food bank. They all do it differently, but ultimately the food that their partners receive from the food banks is at a heavily discounted rate because food banks can buy product within their network. I guess the best way to describe it is like Costco, but for qualified non profits.
Food banks still need donations from the community, however they are able to employ staff to seek those donations. They have Development departments and grant writer(s) to assist with that. On the other hand, food pantries do not. Some are large and can mimic what food pantries do in regards to fund raising, but on the whole food pantries (or, partner agencies) are ran by people who have full time jobs or retirees. Ultimately these people are not employed and do the best they can do with extremely limited budgets and free time.
Donating to the Athens County food pantry is HUGE. Food banks can receive huge donations (ie any post hurricane response) and have fund raising events. Again, not saying they dont require the community's support, but what I'm saying is that this large donation to the Athens Food Pantry is unprecedented. The donations will help lead them to sustainable change within their community. This isn't the kind of donation this pantry would see unless they received a grant that's been written by a professional grant write and that's most likely impossible for partner agencies to accomplish.
Keep it up, Tiger Nation and Ohio! This is amazing to witness
This post was edited on 12/17/19 at 4:23 pm
Posted on 12/17/19 at 10:44 am to Penrod
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here are much poorer counties in Louisiana.
No there aren't.
This post was edited on 12/17/19 at 10:49 am
Posted on 12/17/19 at 10:50 am to LSUBR
In
Posted on 12/17/19 at 11:02 am to Paddyshack
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Also, I bet you haven't donated the first damn nickel to those people in Louisiana that you speak of.
I haven’t specifically. I donate a good bit, though to various causes.
Posted on 12/17/19 at 11:04 am to TexasTiger05
Thank you for sharing! :)
Posted on 12/17/19 at 11:05 am to Red Stick Tigress
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here are much poorer counties in Louisiana.
No there aren't.
Oh no...he said counties instead of parishes.
I think the donations have been awesome and it's a great story but I also sort of agree with him. At some point, it is purely mob mentality. People are taking pride in it because of the story and attention it is getting and because of that they take it to the extreme and it becomes excessive when we could possibly take some of that excess and help some of our own. My church just took a month to raise $40K for their food pantry to fund it for the entire 2020 year to serve Lake Charles. I am sure there other local ones that could use help too. Not sure why one pantry needs $400K when so many are in need in our own communities.
Not hating on it like I said because it is a good cause but not sure why so many are dismissing his point.
This post was edited on 12/17/19 at 11:37 am
Posted on 12/17/19 at 11:38 am to Penrod
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There are much poorer counties in Louisiana.
No. No, there aren't.
Posted on 12/17/19 at 11:44 am to stout
quote:our church sponsors an elementary school for supplies, buys each kid a Christmas box worth 100 bucks or more and each kid a new coat.
At some point, it is purely mob mentality. People are taking pride in it because of the story and attention it is getting and because of that they take it to the extreme and it becomes excessive when we could possibly take some of that excess and help some of our own. My church just took a month to raise $40K for their food pantry to fund it for the entire 2020 year to serve Lake Charles
Yet we have posters here seeking out scoops in Ohio.
I could name about five in Rapides parish that have hungry kids w no jackets or the proper school supplies.
But no one will talk about how cool you are for donating to them
Posted on 12/17/19 at 11:47 am to X123F45
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No. No, there aren't.
Poorest Counties/Parishes in the USA per USA Today
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#18. Louisiana: Claiborne Parish
• County median household income: $26,877
• State median household income: $46,710
• Poverty rate: 29.9 percent
• Unemployment rate: 4.9 percent
The typical household in Louisiana's Claiborne Parish earns just $26,877 a year, about $20,000 less than what the typical household in the state earns. Less than 1 percent of area households earn $200,000 or more a year, and 17.3 percent earn less than $10,000 a year.
Located in northern Louisiana along the Arkansas state border, Claiborne – like other counties on this list – is shrinking rapidly. In the last five years, the number of people living in Claiborne fell by 4.5 percent, even as Louisiana's population grew by 3.0 percent.
Athens County per Wikipedia:
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As of the 2010 United States Census, there were 64,757 people, 23,578 households, and 12,453 families residing in the county.
The median income for a household in the county was $31,559 and the median income for a family was $48,170. Males had a median income of $38,135 versus $31,263 for females. The per capita income for the county was $16,642. About 16.6% of families and 30.3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 29.6% of those under age 18 and 9.2% of those age 65 or over.[15]
Posted on 12/17/19 at 11:50 am to stout
You could probably throw in the Carroll’s, Tensas and Concordia without even looking. Maybe Madison too
Posted on 12/17/19 at 11:52 am to tigerfoot
I am sure there are a lot more in LA we could find. I just found that doing a very quick and easy search to provide actual facts instead of hearsay to the people doubting the validity of what was being said.
Posted on 12/17/19 at 11:54 am to tigerfoot
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our church sponsors an elementary school for supplies, buys each kid a Christmas box worth 100 bucks or more and each kid a new coat. Yet we have posters here seeking out scoops in Ohio. I could name about five in Rapides parish that have hungry kids w no jackets or the proper school supplies. But no one will talk about how cool you are for donating to them
Many of the people donating to this wouldn't donate otherwise. It's not like this fundraiser is robbing donations from LA, so I'm not sure why people are trying to draw some comparison between which one is better.
Posted on 12/17/19 at 11:55 am to stout
Agreed. And of course donating the money is not a bad thing. But seems odd that such an outpouring couldn’t help locally.
Maybe Coach O can talk about starving kids in La.
Maybe Coach O can talk about starving kids in La.
Posted on 12/17/19 at 11:56 am to slackster
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Many of the people donating to this wouldn't donate otherwise.
Yea I get this too which is sad.
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so I'm not sure why people are trying to draw some comparison between which one is better.
I'm not doing that. Just trying to say that if you are in the giving mood then why not help your community if at all possible but I agree that at least people are donating somewhere.
Posted on 12/17/19 at 11:57 am to Paddyshack
Why are kids in Louisiana anymore worthy than ones in Ohio? Might as well get upset that there are poor kids in Kentucky and West Virginia and Mississippi and Arizona that we aren’t donating to
Posted on 12/17/19 at 12:01 pm to tigerfan88
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Why are kids in Louisiana anymore worthy than ones in Ohio?
No one said this.
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