This is an interesting question:
If you had $100 that you had to give to a charity of your choice (not your kid, a friend, etc.).... what would you choose, and why? You can't split up the dough - it's a one time $100 donation?
Here's my answer: A literacy project in the local school - because we still fight literacy issues, and without the ability to read, most systems in America don't work. Illiteracy = poverty = crime=danger.
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Local Planned parenthood chapter as they are providing important health services for our youth.
ReplyDeleteor maybe the Freedom From Religion Foundation who are fighting for our freedom from religous dogma.
Hmm, good one. I think I'm with you. I'm not keen on the disease charities...I think many of them exist to perpetuate themselves. Kind of figured Rocket would pick those two, although I thought they'd be reversed...
ReplyDeleteLiteracy should be an American birthright.
Rocket - those are good ones. I always give to Planned Parenthood... I will need to check of the FFRF!
ReplyDeleteKen - I've worked with a lot of disease charities, and as with any other group organizations, some deliver high quality services, others, eh, not so much... My test is to look at how many layers between the top executive and client services folks... if it's more than three - they don't get my money or time. It's funny - technically, literacy is an american birthright... Every child can get a quality education at their neighborhood public school. Yet somehow, kids fall through the cracks and make it through (at least to 6th grade) without the ability to read. The death spiral of generational poverty is the primary cause, but there must be a better way of catching these kids as they are falling through. I don't have the answer, but I know early childhood education is one of the best solutions in place out there.
I'd pass along my money to a charity that would give out condoms to the lesser of us (Republicans, in particular). :P
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