To Whom Would You Give?

[Miss Chicken]

I would give a large potion of it to Interplast who are a charity that provides urgent plastic surgery to people in third world countries. Many of the people they help are children who are born with cleft lip and palate, or people who have been severly burnt.

I first learnt about them when I read about a young woman called Sufia whose story is extremely tragic. I urge people to read about her, her story will make you angry but also make you realise that most of our own lives are not that bad after all.

 

[Garrovick]

Let's see. I have three children, seven grand children, three sisters and a Mother. And nine assorted living cousins in the Eastern part of Germany, near Poland.

Charity begins and stays at home.

 

[Australis]

Dude, the OP said:

If you had a million dollars (or the equivalent in your local currency) to donate to any charity, to whom would you give it, and why?

Way to think about yourself.

 

[Garrovick]

Dude, the OP said:

If you had a million dollars (or the equivalent in your local currency) to donate to any charity, to whom would you give it, and why?

Way to think about yourself.

After all of those relatives I mentioned, ME wasn't part of it. Do you think it's a picnic to live in Former East Germany these days? Or Children who need clothing, school supplies and eye-wear? Some times even food.

I suggest you "back the truck up" and re-think your position.

 

[Australis]

Dude, okay.

Look at it this way. AFTER you've fed and clothed and hosued the family and done all those things you as a urrrrh, person consider essential, what charity would you give to? I too have other things I'd do first, but the question was about charity.

It's not rocket science.

 

[USS Triumphant]

It's not rocket science.

It could be, if you donated to NASA.

 

[Australis]

^

 

[Capn Flukie]

I would donate it to tsq and Holdfast so they could buy a shoe store together.

Seriously, the Association for the Blind.

 

[Crusher Disciple]

After seeing 30 Days last night, I'd donate it to a Free Clinic.

 

[Mr. B]

There aren't any charities near-and-dear to my heart. The first one I thought of was the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation, which provides scholarships to the children of Marines and Federal law enforcement killed in the line of duty.

 

[backstept]

I'd probably give half to the summer camp I grew up at, to be used for repairing and upgrading the various buildings and probably to upgrade all the facilities to accommodate a larger number of campers and staff

I'd also give the other half to the private school I attended, to be used to cover tuition for as many kids who need financial aid as possible and to overhaul the computer network and auditorium sound system and the PE equipment and the sports teams uniforms

 

[Warp Coil]

I would likely split the money up amongst different animal welfare organizations.

 

[Nerys Ghemor]

St Jude's Childrens hospital

A very good cause. Families without insurance never have to pay, nor do families with insurance have to pay for treatments that aren't covered. I think that's a wonderful way to do it.

I think that I would donate to literacy programs. I believe very strongly in helping people to help themselves, and a HUGE part of that is literacy, be that for people trying to get a GED, people learning English as a second language, or people who fell through the cracks of the educational system and never really learned to read as children. And yes, that has and still does happen in the United States.

There are a lot of local literacy councils that provide tutors to those seeking help with their reading skills, and I volunteered for one while I was looking for a job. My schedule is now too volatile to be a tutor, but if I got this kind of money I would love to continue supporting their efforts.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

There's a few I'd give to. Most likely the British Heart Foundation, British Lung Foundation, Cancer Research, and the Pulmonary Hypertension Association would be the ones at the top of the list.

 

[judge alba]

Not that I'm denigrating at all the work that they do, but I find it quite amusing that nearly all the British posters have picked animal/bird charities.
We do love our animals - we had a royal society to protect animals about a century before we scraped together a merely national one for children.

easy chioce for me i work round animals (sort of)

 

[Zulu Romeo]

There are so many worthy charities out there that I am not sure which ones to choose. The first two that sprang to my mind were Cancer Research UK and Marie Curie Cancer Care - my various music groups had donated proceedings to those charities in the past (the former while it was known as the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, before its merger with the Cancer Research Campaign).

 

[nevermore]

I would split it 4 ways: Doctors without Borders, The Carter Center, the Southern Poverty Law Center and the North Shore Animal League.

 

[sidious618]

The TrekBBS.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

There are so many worthy charities out there that I am not sure which ones to choose. The first two that sprang to my mind were Cancer Research UK and Marie Curie Cancer Care - my various music groups had donated proceedings to those charities in the past (the former while it was known as the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, before its merger with the Cancer Research Campaign).

That just reminded me of one place that should be top of my list. Dove House Hospice. I've known a few people who spent their last days there.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

I would split it 4 ways: Doctors without Borders, The Carter Center, the Southern Poverty Law Center and the North Shore Animal League.

I completely forgot about Médecins sans Frontières... I'd give them some of the money too.