# If you could fund something for a year, what would it be? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 3, 2010, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-fund-something-for-a-year-what-would-it-be/531100 "2010-03-03T06:46:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2010, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-fund-something-for-a-year-what-would-it-be/531100/1 "2010-03-03T06:46:49Z")
You’re rich. Like disgustingly, insanely, couldn’t spend it all in your lifetime if you really really tried rich. But you want to do something worthy with your dough. So you decide that for one year, you will fully fund a worthy person, business, cause, or organization, after which they’re going to sink or swim. Obviously they can’t be related to you in any way. Who do you choose? ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2010, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-fund-something-for-a-year-what-would-it-be/531100/2 "2010-03-03T15:33:28Z")
Something like Doctors without Borders, Red Cross or Amnesty International, probably. ---
**Author:** ![Taenia\_spp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5e925/32.png) [@Taenia\_spp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taenia_spp)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2010, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-fund-something-for-a-year-what-would-it-be/531100/3 "2010-03-03T17:27:08Z")
[Partners in Health](http://www.pih.org) They do some amazing work for some of the world’s most needy people, and very effectively spend their dollars. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2010, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-fund-something-for-a-year-what-would-it-be/531100/4 "2010-03-03T20:54:27Z")
The Democratic Party. ---
**Author:** ![SecondJudith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5ac83/32.png) [@SecondJudith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SecondJudith)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2010, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-fund-something-for-a-year-what-would-it-be/531100/5 "2010-03-03T23:38:21Z")
Oxfam, or Amnesty International. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2010, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-fund-something-for-a-year-what-would-it-be/531100/6 "2010-03-03T23:50:06Z")
Human Rights Campaign. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-fund-something-for-a-year-what-would-it-be/531100/7 "2010-03-04T01:04:46Z")
Clean water for those who need it. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-fund-something-for-a-year-what-would-it-be/531100/8 "2010-03-04T01:23:11Z")
[Donorschoose.org](http://www.donorschoose.org). So long as the site admins vet the project and deem it legit, consider it paid for by me. In fact, thank you for starting this thread, because it reminded me that I hadn’t given to anything there in quite a while. I have, now.