Do you donate to any charities?

I give to about 6 charities each month. I rotate monthly.

I have been blessed with good health and good wealth and I like to share it with those that have not been as fortunate.

Most times I do it annomously as I don’t do it for the recognition. Just for the self satisfaction.

I also will slip a homeless person a $20 bill if I see them on the street. The smiles I get in return are priceless!

Yes

Quite a few on a monthly basis.

However I’m very careful NOT to donate to “charities” that invest in vivisection!!! I only support medical research that doesn’t involve animal experiments.

Reason for donating: there is so much suffering, both human and animal, in this world, and charities work to alleviate the suffering. While I may not be able to physically contribute to their work, by donating money I’m helping to facilitate it.

Everybody is affected by everybody. Even if I have all I want and need and live in luxury but the guy next-door lives in misery then I cannot be happy.

I support charities to help both humans and animals but I feel that my main calling is to help animals. This must remain my focus and I’m not apologetic about this in any way. Most human beings will naturally care more about other humans than animals. These are the people that ought to get involved in helping other human beings. Relatively few people are gifted with a special sense of compassion for animals; these should not be distracted from their work, otherwise there will be an imbalance. Ultimately the aim is to relieve all suffering, whether human or animal.

chirpy

Yes, I donate, but I do not always donate money. Reason to donate is usually because I like the charity, and appreciate what they are trying to do.

It depends on what the charity is, as to what I will donate.

Animal ones, I will often donate bags of food, toys, towels, blankets and items like that. Tangible goods…that way I KNOW my money has been put to use actually helping the animals, and not purchasing a new desk for the director.

I live on a farm, and raise animals. I use to live near a raptor rehab center, hawks, owls, eagles, falcons, and vultures. During birthing times, I would donate placentas, still borns, and the bodies of animals that were healthy, but died for cause (dog attack, broken leg, ect). I’m sure many people reading this are grossed out by the idea, but it’s a natural circle. Since I raise organic animals this was meat the rehab center would not normally have been able to afford.

Womens shelters, I donate clothing, new toys and coloring books, bedding, home baked bread and goodies, and sometimes my skills putting together a resume’s.

A gigantic park that use to be near me (several miles of land) I would donate time, labor, and native plants. Along with planting we also constructed and put up hundreds of bird houses all over the park, even waiding out to our chests in the marsh to put some up.

For families in need, in our Church, my husband will donate his wonderful mechanical skills to fix their car. I’ve left boxes of food on the doorstep of people in need.

My husband plows our neighbors driveways for about a mile around us in the winter. This is a big deal, since we are so rural, and when the weather really gets ugly, they sometimes close our road (and it’s a state highway!).

To us doing charity work does not always mean money. A couple of months ago we spent about 6 hours, along with many people from our Church, helping a widowed woman. She needed a piggery behind her house torn down.

Everyone worked, some brought big equipment too, and paid for the gas themselves. My husband helped her also find a scrap dealer who came and purchased the scrap metal from her. Everything was cleaned up, and hauled away.

Garnet

Homesteading/Farming over 20 years

Source(s): Me, Myself & I

I have donated much of my time and money to a couple charities – mainly the Sierra Club and a local charity that tries to keep our local watershed healthy (Friends of Pheasant Branch). I also donate money to the American Cancer Society through their Relay for Life activities.

I feel strongly in donating to charities revolving around the environment and cancer research because I believe that these two causes will affect us all at one point or another.

Yes i Do,

I Donate Because I Am A Thoughtfull Person. I Love Making People Happy, and it makes me feel good inside helping little kids or poor adults live there lives a smidge better.

I Donate all my clothes that dont fit or i dont like and i donated ALL my old toys and stuffed toys.

Source(s): Me 😛

I do when I go to the Red Cross with my mum and sometimes buy clothes. It’s a good way to give to charity and get a sort of reward too!!! So yeh charity shops are a good way of donating.

lol azzy49586 age 12

I was once in need, many many years ago.

someone gave me a hand up, and made my life much easier. i have never forgotten.

Since then i have shared my fortune with charities in my own city. i sleep better because of it.

I never give to people such as those in New Orleans or the tsunami victims, or even the 9/11 survivors. it just becomes lost in the many pockets of the crooks that are so called middle men,

and it never get to those that really need it. i give regularly and increase it just only locally.

Darn, I forgot the name of it. I donate to an organization that helps homeless families with small children get apartments and basic needs so the kids can go to school. They also give the child or children a mentor to help them with schoolwork because their parents work long hours (but still don’t make enough to afford rent and food and doctor’s bills, etc.)

yes because I would spend my money on something stupid anyway. Dont confuse what I am saying though. i am no saint I could donate much more and the charities I donate to are generally charitys that touch close to home.

Yes, support Lifeboat crews.

Heliambulances.

Because they are not funded by any other means.

I give blood BECAUSE WE ALL SHOULD if we are in good health.

All of my “unwanted items” go to the British Heart Foundation.

Decent shoes go in the Oxfam shoe bank.

Always buy a Poppy.

Always give to the Salvation Army.