Stupid free newspapers

[Marek]

So out of curiosity, which charities do you guys give to? I support Amnesty International and give ridiculous money to the super awesome Clinton Foundation but that's about it.

I signed up for small donations to CARE and the WWF through street teams but I stopped donating to them, as I don't feel confident enough about whether these organisations make real lasting differences.

[Ginger]

Save the Nazis gets most of my support with Mao's “What to do if your first born is not male” also getting a bit of ginger cash.

I wanted to make a joke about supporting a chatroom whose first initial’s are CATLOOL but got scared that the peado police would come and rape me.

On a serious note amnesty gets my support and once I'm no longer a dirty student an African one of some kind, probably one that focuses on a single problem, such as malaria, TB or HIV.

[Marek]

Go with Clinton Foundation! They're the badass mofo's who brought the price of AIDS medicine down at least 50% by negotiating with the manufacturers, and they had smart business people help them move from selling little for much to selling lots for little. They rule.

[brkl]

I donate to Unicef. I should probably raise the monthly amount a bit since I'm making more money. I probably won't be giving to several different charities for simplicity's sake.

[DanJW]

Red Cross/Red Crescent. I know people that object to them for complicated political reasons/conspiracy theories, but in the end hosipitals are hospitals and medicine medicine.

[Thrik]

Wow. You guys are all charitable!

[Wrestlevania]

We don't give on a regular basis, like via bank transfer or anything. But we've adapted our habits to incorporate charitable organisations for everyday things where possible. For example: we use Oxfam's '118' telephone directory service whenever we want to find out a number, instead of using the Internet or the phone book.

Otherwise we donate for the televised stuff directly, and my wife likes doing the "phone vote = donation" thing on reality TV too.

We also help with the charity drive for our local groups, mainly the education-focussed ones.

[miffy495]

I like Oxfam, but my dontations are unfortunately minimal due to my being (as Ginger so eloquently put it) a dirty student. That 118 thing is a brilliant idea. Do they have some equivalent in North America that I was unaware of?

[manny_c44]

I am in the dirty-student/oxfam boat as well.

[Roderick]

I've only ever donated some small amount to the national cancer fund out of sheer terror for the disease, but nothing truly altruistic. I too made it a point to start donating as soon as I have enough money to support the lifestyle of my choosing (which isn't particularly luxurious or anything). This is not at all a valid excuse because I could spare a bit already, but I don't because I guess I'm lethargic and aloof towards these things. Not intellectually, but emotionally.

[Wrestlevania]

Could we not make this into a "dirty laundry" thread? I know I already responded in kind, but reading others sequentially justifying what they do or don't give to charity is making me feel uncomfortable. Mainly because I don't like the idea that other Thumbs may now somehow feel obliged to do likewise.