Giving.

[akarunway 1]

So. I won 600 bucks today on the football games today. I'll give half to a good cause. Anybody have a good cause?

I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.

[happythoughts 0]

Personally, I have had it with most charities.
The overhead is 70%.

Try to think of some type of direct giving that is 100% to the target. A big charity is going to buy a new $300 pair of shoes for the president so that he looks good at the next fund-raiser.

How about a voucher for college classes to a neighborhood kid?
Buy the local YMCA a stack of mats for the gym?
Have a lawn service do a 1-time clean up of someones yard?
Give a bunch of kids $40 for a half day of help cleaning up a park?

[Para_Frog 1]

A local Children's hospital. Buy the chemo ward a couple of XBoxes. It's completely impractical...and the kids will love it.

Pleasant diversions are worth more to them than most of us will ever know.

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[Frenchy68 0]

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So. I won 600 bucks today on the football games today. I'll give half to a good cause. Anybody have a good cause?

Green Bay's "2nd-half-MIA-offense" fund would gladly take donations.

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[Nightingale 0]

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So. I won 600 bucks today on the football games today. I'll give half to a good cause. Anybody have a good cause?

St Jude's Children's Research Hospital

[Royd 0]

Cause I could use $300?

[wmw999 2,583]

Kudos to the OP for doing this.

Charity Navigator rates charities based on, among other things, the mount of overhead they carry. Some of their criteria I don't necessarily agree with (e.g., they like to see charities that are growing, but if one has found its niche, I don't see any reason for it to grow), but you can see what percentage they spend on overhead and fundraising.

Some of the good ones are well under 10% overhead; that's pretty good.

Take a look at it. Interesting tool. But the Home for Wayward Skydivers isn't on it

Wendy W.

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[1969912 0]

NRA

https://www.nradefensefund.org/contributionsnew.aspx

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[Clownburner 0]

You could use some of it as a loan to needy folks in developing countries. Check out http://www.kiva.org/

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[champu 1]

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A local Children's hospital. Buy the chemo ward a couple of XBoxes. It's completely impractical...and the kids will love it.

Pleasant diversions are worth more to them than most of us will ever know.

The guys at Penny-Arcade have a charity that does exactly that.

[kbordson 8]

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Kudos to the OP for doing this.

Charity Navigator
Wendy W.

That is a wonderful website. Not that it changes who I chose to send money to, but it allows me to understand where that money is going.

I was very (happily) surprised by the score that the American Red Cross was given. A little disappointed in the score of the Shriners Hospitals (but they have to pay those ortho docs something to keep them there)

[akarunway 1]

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A local Children's hospital. Buy the chemo ward a couple of XBoxes. It's completely impractical...and the kids will love it.

Pleasant diversions are worth more to them than most of us will ever know.

I gave last year toc a childrens hospital. I upped the the money this AM to a friends churh. And I'm agnostic. Go figure.

I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.