What Charitable Causes Do You Support in Some Way?

Ruthanne

Ruthanne

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I am an animal advocate and mainly for dogs, cats, and wild creatures in the world.

I also support homeless people in the USA and in the world.

I am not always able to give money but do give some time and advocacy to them.

So: What Charitable Causes Do You Support in Some Way?
 

I try to support local grassroots organizations where most if not all of the money goes for the intended cause.

I've become a little bit jaded over some of the large charities that appear to be more of a for-profit business with very little money actually going towards the original cause.

I also look for causes that fall outside of the mainstream government-provided social programs.

Usually, the things that I support involve, children, homeless people, battered and abused people, etc...
 

Aunt Bea said:
I try to support local grassroots organizations where most if not all of the money goes for the intended cause.

I've become a little bit jaded over some of the large charities that appear to be more of a for-profit business with very little money actually going towards the original cause.

I also look for causes that fall outside of the mainstream government-provided social programs.

Usually, the things that I support involve, children, homeless people, battered and abused people, etc...
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Great causes Aunt Bea.
 
The RLNI... ( Royal national lifeboat Institution ) who rescue people at sea, and almost all are unpaid volunteers who put their own lives at serious risk for other people and no pay!!...

The Dogs Trust!

Cancer research..

..and the Salvation army

Like @Aunt Bea , I have cut back a lot of the charities I used to support, for the same reasons
 
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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The only time I give to charity is when I'm able to give DIRECTLY. I've found that just about every charity is either a scam or most of the money doesn't go where you think it's going. That's especially true with scams like the "Wounded Warrior Project" which takes advantage of people's need to feel like they're supporting our veterans & warm & fuzzy. Once you hand somebody money, you have no way to know where it goes - and it usually goes into a scammer's pocket.
Giving to such charities/scams is wrong - because you're rewarding dishonesty.
 
I don't give regularly to any organization, but in the past I have given to St.Jude Children's Hospital, Red Cross, ASPCA, Blue Bench Rape Organization, Ocean Conservation, DAV, homeless and give gently used clothes and other items to various groups/thrift stores.
 
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 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?
 
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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At various times of the year the stores ask us to donate to food causes and so does the postal service. I have given via the postal service.
 
Ruthanne said:
At various times of the year the stores ask us to donate to food causes and so does the postal service. I have given via the postal service.
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In the whole of the UK, just about every supermarket has a large donation cage at the exit whereby you can drop a box of dried food, or canned.. or even toilet rolls, or nappies (diapers) etc, that you've paid for and want to donate..

No fresh food tho'...
 
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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Oh yes!
 
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