I can't do anything to help with diabetes research directly, but my own little side project is predominantly about using charitable giving as a force to drive l

I can't do anything to help with diabetes research directly, but my own little side project is predominantly about using charitable giving as a force to drive local community improvements. So what I can do, if not the research itself, is make a $50 donation to the American Diabetes Association on behalf of a favorite city-improvement tasks of interest to me [1]. Sure, it's using charitable giving to draw some attention to something of interest to me, and that may sound base. But what's wrong with a tiny incentive to give to good causes such as this research? [1] http://btforce.com/348 http://btforce.com/348