{"id":36353,"date":"2005-02-28T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-28T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2005\/02\/28\/support-our-troops-wristbands-provide-only-13-support\/"},"modified":"2005-02-28T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-28T07:00:00","slug":"support-our-troops-wristbands-provide-only-13-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20050228-00\/?p=36353","title":{"rendered":""Support our troops" wristbands provide only 1\/3 support"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over at Slate<\/a>, Timothy Noah notes how much money from so-called “awareness bracelets” actually go to the causes they purport to champion<\/a>. <\/p>\n

In summary, <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Bracelet<\/th>\nVendor<\/th>\nCause<\/th>\nPortion that
benefits cause<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
Yellow “Livestrong”<\/td>\nLance Armstrong Foundation<\/a><\/td>\nsupporting cancer survivors<\/td>\nall<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cinnamon<\/td>\nTsunami Relief<\/a><\/td>\nRed Cross<\/a>, UNICEF<\/a>, CARE<\/a><\/td>\n1\/2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Camo-green<\/td>\n7-11<\/a><\/td>\nUSO<\/a><\/td>\n1\/3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Light blue<\/td>\nAwareness Depot<\/a><\/td>\nTsunami disaster relief
(unspecified charity)<\/td>\n		1\/10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Yellow<\/td>\nAwareness Depot<\/a><\/td>\nSupport our troops<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

I find it ironic that the “Support our troops” bracelet doesn’t actually support our troops. And is yellow<\/a> really the right color to use to demonstrate support for the military? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over at Slate, Timothy Noah notes how much money from so-called “awareness bracelets” actually go to the causes they purport to champion. In summary, Bracelet Vendor Cause Portion thatbenefits cause Yellow “Livestrong” Lance Armstrong Foundation supporting cancer survivors all Cinnamon Tsunami Relief Red Cross, UNICEF, CARE 1\/2 Camo-green 7-11 USO 1\/3 Light blue Awareness Depot […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-36353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

Over at Slate, Timothy Noah notes how much money from so-called “awareness bracelets” actually go to the causes they purport to champion. In summary, Bracelet Vendor Cause Portion thatbenefits cause Yellow “Livestrong” Lance Armstrong Foundation supporting cancer survivors all Cinnamon Tsunami Relief Red Cross, UNICEF, CARE 1\/2 Camo-green 7-11 USO 1\/3 Light blue Awareness Depot […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}