Mrs. Kroc NEVER gave money to a cause that approached her.
She gave it direct - without the money eating managers of foundational trusts.

St. Vincent de Paul Center for the Homeless (OK its Catholic - So What!)
Major League Baseball's first employee-assistance program for players and staff with drug problems
Institute for International Nuclear Disarmament
Homeless Shelters anonymously helping out at the meal lines

$1 million - Helen Woodward Animal Center in Rancho Santa Fe, California
$1 million to the Betty Ford Center for the treatment of alcoholism. $1 million to the Special Olympics.
$6 million University of Notre Dame - Peace Studies
$10 million - to the San Diego Opera
$15 million to the citizens of Grand Forks, North Dakota for flood of 1997.
$18.5 million to the San Diego Hospice.
$25 million - University of San Diego to establish the Mohandas Gandhi Institute of Peace and Justice.
$60 million to Ronald McDonald Children's Charities.
$100 million to the University of Notre Dame and the University of San Diego.
$225 million for National Public Radio

1.5 Billion The Salvation Army was singled out because of their oustanding success with treatment of alcholism, helping the homeless and their very low administrative cost.

Read the fabel of the Greedy Monkey - and GIVE generously before the New Year. It will do you good.

Sincerely,
Gargoyle

BTW - Sorry - The Anaheim Hills reference was wrong - it was another burger giant Carl Karcher and wife (Carl's Jr Hambergers)