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Today is Giving Tuesday: a day dedicated to donating time, treasure, or talent. (We can do that the other 364 1/4 days a year, too. Today is simply the day of celebrating giving.)
If you want to donate some money to a favorite cause, remember that the Chase Freedom Flex®* offers 5X Chase points on PayPal purchases made this month. (On up to $1,500 in combined spending with the card’s other 5X categories this quarter.)
Many charities accept PayPal as a payment method. So, if you hold the no-annual-fee Chase Freedom Flex® (like we’ve been telling you forever that you should), make sure it’s a funding source in your PayPal account. You can earn some points/cashback by donating to charity! Or use it as an excuse to donate a little extra.
I used my Chase Freedom Flex® with PayPal for a donation on PanCAN — the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network‘s website this morning. In November 2000 (25 years ago, wow), my mother didn’t feel well. (That’s her in the picture above.) What doctors thought was gall bladder disease turned out to be pancreatic cancer. She died a few weeks later.
I was at work one night; three out of seven colleagues told me one of their parents died from pancreatic cancer. The survival rates are grim (the five-year survival rate is just 12%). That’s an impressive leap from 9% just a few years ago. I hope those numbers can jump to 30-40% (or higher!) during my daughter’s generation.
My favorite Los Angeles television station, KTLA, has a “$5 challenge”: donate $5 to a charity because small numbers do add up.
Of course, you don’t need a Flex card — or any card — to donate to a charity. You can even just do some random act of kindness today.
Happy giving and earning!
*(All information about the Chase Freedom Flex® was collected independently by Eye of the Flyer. It was neither provided nor reviewed by the card issuer.)
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I thought the photo was Stevie Nicks in a wig!
Taking a shot at someone’s dead mother (and my dad’s late wife)? Stay classy, Chuck.