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We are Opulent Philanthropy Inc., a nonprofit organization dedicated to serving the needs of our local community and providing targeted assistance during times of crisis.
Our current, critical mission is to Support Furloughed Essential Federal Workers who are facing financial hardship due to the government shutdown.
Our Commitment: We are committed to making a positive impact on the lives of these individuals right here in our community.
Help Federal Workers Survive the Government Shutdown!
Every contribution, big or small, will bring much-needed assistance to the families and students struggling as they face this financial crisis. By supporting Opulent Philanthropy Inc., you are supporting your community and helping to ensure that these essential workers can keep food on the table.
Every contribution, big or small, will bring much-needed assistance to the families and students struggling in the aftermath of this heartbreaking tragedy.
Here’s how your donation can help:
No Paycheck Relief Fund for Essential Federal Workers
$25 Fuel a Commute: Provide a gas gift card to ensure an "excepted" employee working without pay can get to and from their job.
$50Essential Groceries: Cover a few days of groceries, diapers, or essential household supplies for a single worker or family.
Utility Relief: Help a family cover a portion of their monthly electric, gas, or water bill to keep the lights on and the water running.
$100 Offset a Prescription: Cover the cost of a necessary prescription or co-pay that an employee might otherwise go without.
$250 Sustain a Family: Provide a critical safety net that allows a family to meet multiple needs—groceries, gas, and a utility payment—for a full month while they wait for the government to reopen. Prevent a Late Fee: Provide emergency funds to cover a necessary payment (like a car payment or partial rent) to avoid late fees or severe credit damage.
$500+ Keep a Home: Offer substantial assistance toward a rent or mortgage payment, directly helping a family remain in their housing during the financial crisis.
Sustain a Family: Provide a critical safety net that allows a family to meet multiple needs—groceries, gas, and a utility payment—for a full month while they wait for the government to reopen.
Support Relief Efforts: Contribute a significant amount to Opulent Philanthropy, allowing us to scale up our emergency programs to assist hundreds of affected workers.
Reminder: Employees submit match request for monetary donations.
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The federal government shutdown has now reached its 24th day, making it the second-longest shutdown in U.S. history.
Surpassing the three-week mark means that federal employees will miss their first full paycheck on Friday, leaving some wondering how to make ends meet until federal agencies are funded once again.
When an employee of a government agency is furloughed during a shutdown, it typically means the agency employing the worker has experienced a lapse in appropriations and no longer has the necessary funds to operate. Due to the lack of appropriated funding, all non-essential activities are put on pause during this time and some employees are placed on "nonduty, nonpaid" leave status.
"Excepted" employees, or those deemed "essential," are expected to continue working during the shutdown without pay.
Roughly 730,000 federal employees are working without pay, while another roughly 670,000 have been furloughed, according to the latest estimate from the Bipartisan Policy Center. However, agencies have made changes as the shutdown drags on. For instance, the Internal Revenue Service originally said it would use the Inflation Reduction Act to keep paying all of its roughly 74,300 employees but a week later decided to furlough nearly half its workforce.
In the past, federal workers typically received back pay when impasses ended, but Congress made it official in 2019. However, the White House budget office is considering a new interpretation of that law, arguing it doesn’t cover furloughed employees.
Many federal contractors, including those who handle security, clean offices and staff the cafes in federal buildings, are also laid off during shutdowns. But unlike federal workers, they have no guarantee of being made whole at the end of the impasse.
42 million low-income Americans—including millions of children, seniors, and working families—are at risk of losing their food assistance through the SNAP program (Food Stamps) due to the ongoing government shutdown.
The funds they rely on to put food on the table are set to run out. This is an immediate crisis that will lead to widespread hunger and hardship.
Your support is critical right now to ensure our neighbors don't go hungry.
Millions of families are facing an empty table. We need your generosity to fill the gap left by this national crisis.
Every dollar raised will directly fund:
Don't let them go hungry. Please donate today and stand with the 42 million Americans facing this devastating loss of support.
Click here to give now and ensure a family has a meal.
This video discusses the potential loss of food benefits for 42 million Americans due to a government shutdown, highlighting the severity of the crisis this fundraiser aims to address:
The Department of Agriculture has posted a notice on its website warning that Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits won't be issued on Nov. 1.
"Bottom line, the well has run dry," reads the notice, which also blames Democrats for the second-longest shutdown in U.S. history.
Republican and Democratic lawmakers remain at a stalemate on finding a government funding solution. The Senate has continued to fail to advance bill that would reopen the government until Nov. 21. The House remains out of session next week.
The Department of Agriculture posted a notice on its website that Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits will not be issued on Nov. 1 amid the government shutdown, saying “Bottom line, the well has run dry.”
SNAP, often referred to as "food stamps," serves roughly 42 million low-income Americans.
SNAP has traditionally been entirely federally funded but is administered by states. That means the shutdown's impact on SNAP and when benefits will start to dry up will vary by state.
Making cash donations to public charities helps others while also reducing your federal income tax bill. But the new tax law limits how much itemizers may deduct in a given year and expands the amount non-itemizers may claim. Amber Arnold/Wisconsin State Journal/AP
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If you regularly make donations to tax-exempt charities and non-profits, you should be aware of upcoming rule changes governing how much of your contributions will be deductible.
Some of the changes, which are in President Donald Trump’s recently enacted federal tax-and-spending cuts package, affect filers who take the standard deduction. Others affect filers who itemize — which you do when your individual deductions combined exceed the standard.
Here’s a rundown of some key changes that will take effect in 2026:
In the first two years of the pandemic, if you took the standard deduction on your federal income tax return, you also were allowed to deduct an additional $300 ($600 for married couples filing jointly) for charitable cash gifts you made. That special provision then expired.
But, starting in 2026 you will be allowed to deduct up to $1,000 in cash donations ($2,000 for joint filers).
“This applies only to direct cash gifts to qualifying 501(c)(3) charities — not donor-advised funds or private foundations,” said Tom O’Saben, director of tax content and government relations at the National Association of Tax Professionals.
Starting in 2026, those who itemize their deductions will — for the first time — be allowed to deduct their cash contributions only to the extent they exceed 0.5% of their adjusted gross income.
For example, say your adjusted gross income is $100,000. You will be allowed to deduct the amount of your total cash gifts minus $500 (0.5% of $100,000. So if you make $2,000 in cash contributions, you only will be allowed to deduct $1,500.
An existing rule that further limits itemizers will remain in effect: It sets a ceiling for how much you may deduct of your contributions to public charities in a given year. Specifically, you can’t deduct the portion of your cash donations that exceed 60% of your AGI in the year you make them, O’Saben said. (The AGI limit is typically 30% for cash gifts made to donor-advised funds and private foundations, he added.)
But you may be able to deduct any cash gifts you made outside the allowable limits in the next tax year. That’s thanks to another existing rule that lets itemizers carry forward their “excess” contributions for five years and deduct them on future returns. The “excess” is any portion of your cash donations that exceeds the AGI ceiling and, starting next year, falls below the new floor of 0.5% of AGI.
Say your AGI is $100,000 next year. You will be allowed to carry forward the first $500 of your cash gifts (0.5% x $100,000) plus any remainder of your donations above $60,000 (60% of your AGI).
Here’s how that will work: Say you itemize and are allowed to deduct $10,000 in cash donations after accounting for the new 0.5% of AGI rule above. Typically, the itemized charitable deductions will reduce your tax bill by an amount equal to your top tax rate multiplied by your deductible cash donations.
But if you’re in the 37% bracket, you won’t get the full $3,700 (37% x $10,000) in tax savings. You will reduce your tax liability by only $3,500 (35% x $10,000), O’Saben
If you itemize, any non-cash contributions you make – such as clothes, food or household goods – are also subject to the new 0.5%-of-AGI floor.
If you’re taking the standard deduction, you won’t be able to deduct your non-cash contributions since the $1,000/$2,000 limit for non-itemizers applies only to cash gifts.
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Many victims of natural disaster find themselves left out of the recovery often relying on the generosity of others to bounce back. Nonprofits and others provide assistance, but the process is difficult to navigate.
Right after a natural disaster, say, a hurricane, tornado, wildfire, major flood, earthquake or volcano, there is usually an outpouring of generosity and support for those affected, often in the form of material needs. But a few weeks into the recovery effort, that support and all the donated goods that poured in dwindle.
Often victims, having survived the initial onslaught, fall through the recovery cracks. They may not be covered by insurance or eligible for a small business loan, and the support FEMA can provide may be limited.
There are many reasons why people may suffer disproportionately after disaster. Some of it is obviously financial, those living near or below the poverty line struggle to cobble together the necessary resources to adequately prepare or take action when disaster strikes. She said the elderly often possess less technological access and fewer social connections, and those for whom English is a second language are vulnerable as well.
Recovery is a long, arduous process, even for those eligible for some assistance. But for some, like those mentioned above, the process is even worse and many never fully recover. A year after a hurricane, tornado, wildfire, major flood, earthquake or volcano, many people are still in temporary housing. As a country, we’re now getting pretty good at immediate-relief response, but long-term recovery is not as well coordinated, in part because the funds available dry up and the world moves on to the next disastrous event leaving many behind.
Oftentimes the survivors might lack the wherewithal to navigate their way through the various sources and programs necessary to receive aid. “One of the things that we see is that for people who are not well educated or have some sort of disability, getting through this maze is a really challenging thing.”
The extent of the recovery often depends on the nature of the disaster as well. Disasters can cause total destruction, where some people lost everything:
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