Here is your situation. A person wants to give $1,000 to a charity in your name. You can't keep the money for yourself. You can give the whole $1,000 to one charity, or split the $1,000 between two charities.

To which charity(ies) do you donate the $1,000?

any charity relating to children.

save the children

aids foundation

battered women

greenpeace

$250 a piece

What Rick said...

For the kids.

I would go with the Shriners Hospital for kids,

Or Make a Wish foundation.

Both are worthy causes, though I believe you get more bang for your buck, with the Shriners.

Dave (A.K.A. Homebrew)

Astride. They provide horseback riding for handicapped kids here in St. Cloud.

Used to be just Boys Town but now it's.

girlsandboystown.org

Heart Association and Cancer Society.

Heart for my sister, Tank's Dad, Tank's cousin, and several other family members...

Cancer for Tank's mom, my mom (30 year survivor); and other various family members...

What Homebrew said.

Seen wonderful work by the Shriners...gotta agree with Homebrew and Snowqueen

Mark

$3,000 will buy a lot of those tiny cars!

A very worthy cause! Kids is good!

Doctors without Borders and The American Red Cross

The American Legion Child Welfare Fund

Ronald Mcdonald House.

Ditto on Shriners

I give to the Lance Armstrong foundation.

The thing that I like about LAF is it focuses on how to better approach cancer as a chronic condition while atempting to find a cure. IE how to cope.

*threadjack\rant*

Its unfortunate the yellow wristbands have been made cliche by all the other colors available now (some attached to charities some to profit). I saw a Kansas City Chiefs one for sale yesterday. Same is true for the breast cancer ribbon. (I've seen Chiefs versions of this as well) Get creative charities, don't dilute others creativity.

*end pet peeve rant*

I feel much better 🙂

threadjack on;

teedubya,

thats a good rant. We have ribbons, wristbands, etc for every possible cause. It makes your head spin trying to keep up with them. Around here, there are even ones in every possible camouflage pattern.

I tore the ones I have off of my car and figured "screw it, its my business who and what I support".

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I wouldn't give to any national charity - most of them are top heavy and suck a lot of the money off for administrative fees. There are plenty of local bodies doing wonderful things. Astride, as Rug mentioned, is one. Another is the ARISE program, which provides assistance for kids with disabilities free of charge so they can participate in after school activities like sports, Scouting, church groups, theatre groups, etc.

Rant over. Good question!

Heather

Well, since I run a non-profit on the side aimed at helping kids, I have to put in a plug for The Comics and Kids Network. We donate comic books to all kinds of groups that work with kids. Our goal is to promote literacy and to give the kids something fun that they can't afford themselves. Believe me, the kids go nuts over them, and I know for a fact that the comics get them reading. And, we run this on a threadbare budget, so you get a lot of bang for your buck. You can check us out at www(dot)comicsandkids(dot)org.

Cool Gerber! That is a great idea. I will add your site to my favs.

Heather