We're comfortably inside the confines of 2012 now, and I've crunched all the numbers to determine the grand total of money I found for charity over the course of 2011! The final breakdown is thus (at least as far as U.S. tender is concerned):
.01 x 1008 = $10.18
.05 x 45 = $2.25
.10 x 116 = $11.60
.25 x 34 = $8.50
1.00 x 13 = $13.00
5.00 x 1 = $5.00
In addition to the American currency tabulated above, I also found six Canadian pennies and one Canuck quarter (altogether worth $0.30 at today's exchange rate), one dirham from the United Arab Emirates ($0.27), and a Swiss 2 franc coin ($2.13).
Altogether, that makes $49.23 in money either lost (in elevators, on the floors of bars or rock clubs), discarded (on sidewalks and subway stations), or abandoned (in the drawers of empty desks at my office). Knowing that some of that cash would have inevitably been thrown away makes me even more happy to direct it to the Sean McGrath Fund at Princeton Area Community Foundation, where it can effect some positive change in its own little way!
My friend Miranda promised at the beginning of the year that she would make a matching donation, and I'm glad to also be the first to report that January 1 marked the launch of a matching grant program up to $2500 in total donations made this month, multiplying that meager but respectable $49.23 into $196.92. That's no small change!
If you'd like to make a donation to get doubled by the patrons behind the matching grant challenge, you can donate online here (click the orange button and specify "Sean McGrath Fund" in the comments section), or if you'd rather donate by check, just print and mail the form here (once again, specify "Sean McGrath Fund" on the form).
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