Our law firm just made several donations to charities.  This week we gave to the Ronald McDonald House, to the United Way and several others.  The amounts given are irrelevant.  The truth is that I admire the minimum wage worker who quietly drops a quarter in the Salvation Army kettle a whole lot more than the millionaire who gives $10,000 to charity and then takes the tax write off.  I don’t begrudge them their deduction…but I find the publication of the size of the donation offensive.  Every gift matters! And sometimes the smallest donations are truly the greatest sacrifice.