Arkansas Childrens Hospital
Spina Bifida Association
Make A Wish
We want to support charities that will help kids.
Children, animals, and old people. Also hungry people. Education. It would be hard to choose exactly which ones. I’d tap an attorney friend to help out.
Also, the dentist I saw in Florida spends one day a week doing free dental treatment for the poor. I’d like to help fund that.
I’d invest it and use the earnings to increase my direct donation to cancer research. I can funnel the donation through the university’s tax exempt foundation to get the most philanthropic bang for the buck.
In other words, no real change other than the amount.
Shot@Life. They fund four vaccines (pneumococcal, polio, rotavirus and measles) for poor kids. Measles deaths in India alone have dropped drastically because of efforts like these. Measles is on the verge of elimination along with polio. Vaccines are incredibly cheap and incredibly effective. I would probably donate most of the money there just because they’re working on vaccine treatments for so many diseases including cancer and diabetes.
In no particular order:
- The non-profit theatre that I’m a member of. 2) The other non-profit theatre that I’m a member of. 3) The non-profit dedicated to the rare genetic disease that my husband has. 4) The non-profit dedicated to a different rare-ish disease that my friend’s husband has. 5) An organization that helps foster kids, especially those who are aging out of the system. 6) And maybe some organization dedicated to kitties.
Childrens Mercy Hospital of Kansas City
Autism Society of America
Groups that dig well tom provide cleaning drinking water in foreign countries
Years ago, while waiting to catch a bus home from work, I’d see trainers walking by with trainee guide dogs for the blind, and I decided that if I came into large money, I’d want to support them.
lions clubs. Every cent they raise goes to where it is supposed to go
St. Jude’s and Shriners Hospitals, and the Ronald McDonald House
Habitat for Humanity
Meals on Wheels
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library; plus my local library
NAMI and the American Society for Suicide Prevention
Planned Parenthood
The local community theater
Concerns of Police Survivors
Homes for Our Troops
Oxfam
Doctors Without Borders
Local charities I already support, including animal rescue, food pantries, women’s shelter, a “backpack” program to ensure kids have meals during school breaks, and a program that helps provide clothing, luggage, furniture, etc. for foster children.
Things relevant to me or my family, I guess. I’ve never had all that much money throughout my life and tended to only give to the noisy charities, but I’d like to be more circumspect.
My Dad died of heart problems and diabetes, so something related to them. Both my Mum and my Aunt have survived different kinds of cancers, so I’d support them too. And considering my recent adventures, something to help with the homeless.
Not sure what else. Doctors Without Borders maybe.
The B612 Foundation, the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund…probably the ACLU, I’d have to check my notes for other potentials, but those were at the top of my brain.
Maybe the Pink Pistols and the Organization for Transformative Works.
I would donate to the Eimers Foundation, which is a foundation for the homeless here in Detroit. It’s run by a twelve year old here in Detroit. He’s a pretty impressive young guy.
Pretty much local here.
Franciscan Health (Indianapolis). Saved my eyesight, waived the nearly $10,000 my insurance didn’t cover. I paid under $200; I still remember the mental WTF I had when, in the same day, I paid a car shop more for a tire and an oil change than I did the hospital network for months of aggressive treatment, surgery, and follow-up exams to find out if I had an immune disorder that caused the problem. I have already donated a good amount to them, but I owe them a lot more than what has been given.
Damien Center. Local AIDS/HIV center. They do a lot of good work.
Julian Center. Helps victims of domestic abuse. Real-world help, too, providing safe housing, cell phones, and such. Non-gender oriented, I’ve known a few men who have turned to them, though their obvious focus tends to be women and children.
Mozel Sanders Foundation and Gleaners. Two organizations that help feed those in need.
Planned Parenthood of Indiana. I might make a hefty donation contingent on them offering more health services to men (things many other PP orgs do). They offer some services, but a few times I’ve been turned away from services offered to women, which seems weird if the overall idea is sexual health and family planning for the populace.
Nationally: ACLU, Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (had skipped my mind until seeing Ranchoth’s post.
50 million Euro?
Probably buy a big f…k-off yacht and my crew would take me around the world to see how the poor people were living.
Not.
I’d like to find an animal sanctuary somewhere and work with them. That would be a joy.
My church,
The nursing home Mom passed away in,
The KDH hospital in which she worked for 31 years
& which treated her fatal illness,
The local Salvation Army,
The local Crisis Pregnancy Pro-Life clinic,
The local animal shelters,
My denominations’ humanitarian aid
& Messianic Jewish ministries.
Abortion clinics, for patients that can’t afford the cost.
No groups.
I would travel the land, incognito. I would talk with people I came across and identify good folks in time of trouble who’s lives could be turned around with a relatively small (next to my millions of won dollars) sum of money. People who needed to get caught up on house payments, send kids to school, help with medical bills…
Then I would find a way to pay their bills, either anonymously or through a cut-out. Then continue on my journey.
[cue the Kung Fu theme song]
Several of my favorite dog rescues would be very, very happy.
The Exotic Feline Rescue Center in Center Point Indiana would too.
I would find a couple good, reputable horse rescues as well.
Humane society or some local equivalent.
50 million Euros?
- A big chunk goes to http://blog.givewell.org/ : [INDENT]"GiveWell is a nonprofit dedicated to finding outstanding giving opportunities and publishing the full details of our analysis to help donors decide where to give.
Unlike charity evaluators that focus solely on financials, assessing administrative or fundraising costs, we conduct in-depth research aiming to determine how much good a given program accomplishes (in terms of lives saved, lives improved, etc.) per dollar spent. Rather than try to rate as many charities as possible, we focus on the few charities that stand out most (by our criteria) in order to find and confidently recommend the best giving opportunities possible."[/INDENT] GiveWell maintains a rotating list of 1-3 of the best charities where they think the funds would do the most good. Give them a 5 year grant, with 90% of the donation passed through to their favorite funds.
- The rest goes to some charitable project I run or dream up. Maybe I buy the SD brand from STM and pass it along to the Wikipedia board. Or maybe I commission a fleet of 10 Robotic Datamarans to sweep the globe. If nothing suitable comes to mind, put 100% of the charitable amount in #1.