What Charitable Causes Do You Support in Some Way?

Samaritan's Purse...they reach out in many directions all over the world. It's Christian so that irks some people but the work they are doing worldwide has massive results from disaster relief, medical, heal our patriots, children's heart project, construction, education, training, nutrition, agriculture, farm animals, women's programs, health & sanitation, etc.
 

hollydolly said:
I thought you must !! :) I wonder if it's in every state?..do you know, RR?
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The grocery store where we shop offer a couple different ways to donate.
1. Round off your change as a donation and it gets donated to the local food bank. IOW, if my bill is $10.15, I can donate the .85 and the store donates it to the food bank. My bill is then $11.00.
2. The store puts together a large brown bag of pet food that equals $10.00 that the customer may purchase. The bags are on a rack and when you purchase one, you take your choice of bag off of the rack and place it into the huge box alongside of the rack. The box then gets donated to the local SPCA.
3. At checkout, the customer can donate $1 or $2 that gets donated to the Soup Kitchen to feed the homeless.
 
Not much. Although I am an atheist I have to take my wife to mass every week because she believes that stuff. So when they go around with the little baskets on the end of those sticks I throw in a $20 because I don't want to look too cheap, although I am. No way they are going to get 10% which they try to guilt trip you into forking over. Sometimes they ask again and if they do I'll put a $5 in. No more $20's. I'm not made of money. And then on the way out they have this thing called a poor box and I'll put a $5 in that. So that's $25 or $30 a week to the Mackerel snappers. Then once in a while I'll give a pan handler a $5. I'm under no illusions that it will go for anything other than booze or drugs but I figure they still need it more than I do. I also give any old stuff I don't want any more but that might be usable to the Salvation Army. Mainly because I don't want to deal with the hassle of selling it at a garage sale.
 
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RadishRose said:
Donations to police depts are for The Police Athletic League (PAL)
https://www.nationalpal.org/
:)
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I get calls from them every now and then. It's funny the way they always get some dude with a deep authoritative voice to make their fund raising calls. I guess that's to make you think it's a cop asking you for money. It doesn't work on me. But I'm sure it does on some people. I'll bet they think that little sticker they get to put on their back window will keep them from getting a ticket too.
 
hollydolly said:
Yes exactly the same thing happens here, so I never sign up for anything. I give only cash or goods, donations..anonymously

BTW I forgot that I also.. even tho' it's a small thing,.. buy extra food every time I shop, and place them into the Food bank boxes at the supermarket exit...

Do you folks in the USA have those food banks donations areas at your stores?
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You are wiser than most.
 
Trade said:
Not much. Although I am an atheist I have to take my wife to mass every week because she believes that stuff. So when they go around with the little baskets on the end of those sticks I throw in a $20 because I don't want to look too cheap, although I am. No way they are going to get 10% which they try to guilt trip you into forking over. Sometimes they ask again and if they do I'll put a $5 in. No more $20's. I'm not made of money. And then on the way out they have this thing called a poor box and I'll put a $5 in that. So that's $25 or $30 a week to the Mackerel snappers. Then once in a while I'll give a pan handler a $5. I'm under no illusions that it will go for anything other than booze or drugs but I figure they still need it more than I do. I also give any old stuff I don't want any more but that might be usable to the Salvation Army. Mainly because I don't want to deal with the hassle of selling it at a garage sale.
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Hey...someone has to pay the legal fees for priests' sexual abuse trials.
 
Monthly: NPR, KIVA, St. Jude, Habitat for Humanity.
Others as they come across my radar screen including Children's Hospital Los Angles, various homeless shelters and food banks. I also send money to Wikipedia every year.

Although certainly not classified as charities, but optional to buy because much of their content is available without charge, I also have paid subscriptions to several news services because I believe in a press that can afford to pay investigative reporters.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
This sounds bad. I don't give to charitable organizations. It's not that I'm stingy, or I don't care; it's that I have concerns about how much of my donation is actually going to the cause. For a time, I was employed by a charitable institution. Some of the money went for salaries, and the lion's share went for asking for more donations. The more money you got was more money you could spend asking for more money. That kind of turned me off. The other was when my uncle passed. My aunt requested that in lieu of flowers-a gift to his disease's charity. I gave. And for years, my mail box was filled with requests for every charity in the world. Some charity sold my name & address for cash. Every day there was a bunch of thick envelopes. I did give a small donation to one charity, $10, they must have spent more than a hundred times that sending me beautiful, full color, embossed pamphlets, booklets asking for more money.
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Yes I saw that many of the so called charitable organizations some ceos were making millions a year and that really turned me off. I decided that when I go out to eat I leave additional money for the waiter or waitress for their tip as I know how hard they work and their salary is very low. That is my charitible contribution and I know itā€™s going directly into the pockets of those who need it. I got this idea from my dear father-in-law who has a heart of gold .
 
I give to United Way only because my company pressures their employees to donate.

An organization I give to is the Organic Consumers Organization. I wouldn't call it a charity, but it is a non-profit dedicated to clean, healthy food.

Rather than give to the organized charities out there, I would rather give directly to those involved. When I get my car washed in town, there is always a guy there who pre-washes your car, gets it ready to go thru the wash. Then, when you're finished, he quickly dries off any wet spots. These guys always look one step away from homelessness. I give them a really good tip. At least they're out working. Things like this I donate to. I also give good tips to wait staff.
 
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