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NightWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-25-07 09:34 PM
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What are yout favorite charities? (since this is the time of giving)
For the past few years my family has given to a charity in lieu of spending money on gifts. Various members of us have also volunteered with Habit For Humanity. Not that I am tooting our own horn, but I mention this to ask, what is your favorite charity?

As of today, I really like www.heifer.org they work to give animals and training to communities and villages in order to provide milk, eggs, and other needs to people in need. You can go online and actually buy a cow (or pig, sheep, llama, goat, duck, chicken, trees, honeybees and other stuff) for a village in need. They have a pretty good reputation.

What are your favorite charities?
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SPKrazy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-25-07 09:36 PM
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1. i donate mostly through a fund at work
i don't always agree with their choices

but hey

and i donate to a church

and i've donated to Heifer

they are an Arkansas based charity that is very good

give a person an animal

and they will have food

not much money goes a long way in that organization

a good one i'd recommend it highly
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-25-07 09:36 PM
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2. The Human Fund
Edited on Sun Nov-25-07 09:38 PM by primate1
"Money For People"
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NightWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-25-07 09:42 PM
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5. Happy Festivus
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auntAgonist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-25-07 09:39 PM
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3. America's Second Harvest
Edited on Sun Nov-25-07 09:42 PM by auntAgonist
http://www.secondharvest.org/

I used this handy research page a few years ago to decide where would be best to help.

http://www.charitynavigator.org/

http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=5271
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barb162 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-25-07 09:42 PM
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4. local animal shelters n/t
Edited on Sun Nov-25-07 09:42 PM by barb162
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lost-in-nj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-25-07 09:49 PM
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6. I have lots
Eva's Kitchen... local
Make a wish national and NJ
Americas Second harvest
American Indian College fund (personal favorite)
Habitat for Humanity local and national(another fave)
NJ food banks
local Fire Dept. and First aid squad... (volunteer)
Human Rights Campaign
and BASRA
Bahamas Air Sea and rescue Assoc....
all volunteer... personnel reasons...
we give alot, we can...
I wish I could do more.......
no reason not to.......

If you can!
You should....

:)


lost

I also choose an AIDS program every year....
since my baby brother died of it....

((((hugs)))))
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-25-07 09:54 PM
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7. Doctors Without Borders
:)
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GOPisEvil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-25-07 09:54 PM
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8. Doctors Without Borders and my local food bank.
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-25-07 09:56 PM
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9. The local homeless who need food, although I've not been able to do much of anything
for them in a while (no work= no food to bring, and no vehicle to get there).

Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund, etc.
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CreekDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-25-07 09:59 PM
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10. St. Anthony's Foundation (San Fran.), St. Jude Hospitals, Shriners Hospitals
All of these seek to give, free of charge to recipients anything that they need and seek to give them assistance so that ultimately they will no longer need it and can live independently.

I give through paycheck deductions regularly and don't have to fundraise from me.
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tigereye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-25-07 11:15 PM
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11. Habitat and the local food bank
oh, and Planned Parenthood.
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mwooldri Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-25-07 11:18 PM
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12. Ronald McDonald House (our local one specifically),
and Association for Bladder Exstrophy Children.

Both of which we've been helped and touched by these charities during our son's early days and it's a little something that I can do to return the favour.

Mark.
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swag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-25-07 11:25 PM
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13. A few
Edited on Sun Nov-25-07 11:26 PM by swag
Good for you, and thanks for asking.

These tend to be mine:

Stop Prisoner Rape

http://www.spr.org/

ACLU

http://www.aclu.org/

Planned Parenthood of the Columbia/Willamette

http://www.plannedparenthood.org/ppcw/

Cascade AIDS Project

http://www.cascadeaids.org/

Basic Rights Oregon

http://www.basicrights.org/
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Kutjara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-25-07 11:30 PM
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14. Here's mine.
Oxfam
ACLU
Amnesty International
Greenpeace
WWF
EFF
Free Tibet
Southern Poverty Law Center
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