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The American Cancer Society did not explicitly reject a massive donation offer from a non-theistic organization on the basis of it being a non-theistic organization.
That was not the stated reason given for rejecting a matching offer of $250,000 from the Foundation Beyond Belief and the Todd Stiefel Foundation to sponsor a national team in the upcoming Relay for Life. (An offer that, as a matching offer, was likely to bring in a total of half a million dollars for the American Cancer Society.) Nobody at the ACS has ever said, in words, “We don’t want our organization to be associated with atheists. It’s too controversial. We don’t want atheist money.” And when asked if this was the case, they have denied it.
tl;dr: YES THEY DID
How is it controversial to accept a donation from a group that is representative of at least 14% of the population? A group that also includes some of the world
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American has fallen to 23rd in infrastructure quality globally, according to the World Economic Forum. It will take about $2 trillion over the next five years to restore the country’s infrastructure, says the American Society of Civil Engineers.
Given America
A reader sent in this photo of the Annie Hall screening by the Brooklyn Bridge last night.
In honor of our upcoming Ocean to Sound Relay on Sunday, I put together a video of all my pics from last spring
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