charities?
I’m looking for good charities for my annual birthday charitable contributions.
Charity Navigator is good at finding good charities that spend their money well. I’ll probably split it up 1/4-1/2 international (South Africa/ Africa focus), 1/4-1/2 national and 1/4 local.
August 20th, 2007 at 6:30 am
Accessibility expert Joe Clark has set up a micropatronage project and, if he gets enough funding, he aims to study some accessibility issues. I’ve met him at SXSW previously and he seems like an earnest guy; I donated a few bucks back in December.
August 20th, 2007 at 11:01 am
A Nepalese college roommate of mine set up his own charity:
http://www.nepalchildren.org/
Also, a friend of Melodi’s is trying to raise funds for an experimental treatment for her RSD:
http://www.hopeforelizabeth.com/index.html
Mel is also a fan of kiva.org
August 20th, 2007 at 12:31 pm
Hey Adrian! It’s Andrea from Nicaragua… I highly recommend Food for the Hungry, not just ’cause i work for them, but i think they pretty much ROCK. :) their site is http://www.fh.org
August 21st, 2007 at 5:11 pm
My family favors Heifer International: http://www.heifer.org/
Donations go toward supplying poor folks around the world with various means of supporting themselves (e.g., livestock and crops) and training them how to manage them sustainably. You could give a poor farmer somewhere the gift of bees, or a sheep, or a tree, etc.
August 21st, 2007 at 5:32 pm
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