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Ask HN: What charities do you donate to?
- pg 13y agoYours! (http://ycombinator.com/np.html http://ycombinator.com/np.html)
- skidoo 13y agoI appreciate what the folks at the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund do.
- ajslater 13y agome too: http://cbldf.org/ http://cbldf.org/
- jacob_smith 13y agokiva.org -- small loans (usually around $1,000 total, crowd-sourced in $25 increments) made to people for new business ventures, farm improvements, etc. Definitely worth a look!
- dmgrow 13y agoAlso a big fan of Kiva. Been involved with it for years.
- robert_foss 13y agonlnet.nl -- NLnet supports a number of software projects, events, educational activities that strive for an open information society. Current projects: http://nlnet.nl/project/current.html http://nlnet.nl/project/current.html
- ajslater 13y agoThe Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org/ https://www.eff.org/
- ajslater 13y agoPlanned Parenthood http://www.plannedparenthood.org/ http://www.plannedparenthood.org/
- ajslater 13y agoThe American Civil Liberties Union https://www.aclu.org/ https://www.aclu.org/
- ajslater 13y agoThe Nature Conservancy http://www.nature.org/ http://www.nature.org/
- ajslater 13y agoHuman Rights Campaign http://www.hrc.org/ http://www.hrc.org/
- ajslater 13y agoI'd love to donate to an organization who's charter was ending the drug war, but I'm not sure I know of one specifically like that. I suppose NORML might be an obvious choice, but I don't feel like picking a specific drug for promotion is where my heart is. I don't really know much about organizations in this field. Anyone?
- retrogradeorbit 13y agoAmnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/ http://www.amnesty.org/
- rtcoms 13y agoMilaap Social Venture http://milaap.org http://milaap.org It's basically Kiva for india.
- bjourne 13y agoAmnesty and Naturskyddsföreningen
- nicwolff 13y agoTabby's Place http://www.tabbysplace.org http://www.tabbysplace.org
- loumf 13y agoAlmost all of my donations goes to local non-profits that my wife or I are on the board of or where I intimately know the organization's board, staff, and mission. I also usually support money raising efforts of friends for small amounts (like a walkathon). The vast majority of the money is going to organizations that provide services to low-income people. If you are looking for non-profit ideas that help the kind of giving I do, check out Razoo. Another thing those organizations could use is a way to lower operational costs, potentially by pooling with others.
- cjbprime 13y ago90% to whatever GiveWell -- http://givewell.org http://givewell.org -- currently thinks is best (GiveDirectly, Against Malaria Foundation), 10% to charities I have a soft spot for that I suspect are less efficient (e.g. EFF, Wikimedia, public radio).
- stevekemp 13y agoThere are too many good causes, so I decided to follow my mothers approach: Pick two/three and give them all the donations that I can make. From that point on I ignore every other charity in the world. The only charity I support that I suspect anybody will have heard of would be the RNLI (Royal National Lifeboat Institution; the folks that go out and rescue people at sea http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_National_Lifeboat_Institution http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_National_Lifeboat_Institu... ) Usually I donate once a year to my chosen three charities, bot sometimes there will be a small bonus at random times.
- helloanand 13y agoI go a local orphanage (http://www.stcatherineshome.org/ http://www.stcatherineshome.org/) to donate clothes, toys and sometimes even food. Recently, did a one time online donation at http://www.hopemonkey.org http://www.hopemonkey.org (I'm not affiliated with either of them)
- maxharris 13y agoThe Ayn Rand Institute http://www.aynrand.org/ http://www.aynrand.org/
- ernestipark 13y agoWorld Vision (http://www.worldvision.org/ http://www.worldvision.org/)