Your Favorite Charities

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I don’t think we have a thread for this yet! I am currently looking for a good gun violence prevention organization to add to my monthly donation roster. So far I am considering Everytown and Moms Against Gun Violence. Do you have any favorites? I’ll also post a list of where I donate so far, in case any of those organizations interest you :grin:

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I try to give locally in most cases so a lot of these are Chicago-based.

Probably some I’m forgetting. A lot of one-offs.

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Good thread idea @noodle :heart:

Off the top of my head:

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Oh yay! I love this topic. I like Everytown for gun control. These are the places I currently support but there are definitely some others I like for one offs.

Not Local
Thorn - fights human trafficking
Unchained at Last - fights child marriage in USA
Project Gutenberg - education
Wikipedia - education
Equal Justice Initiative - social justice/prison reform
Lasagna Love - hunger (I volunteer with my local chapter but it exists nationwide)

Local
Children’s Scholarship Fund of Philadelphia - education
Philabundance - hunger
Project HOME - homelessness
PCAS - disability
Pennsylvania Assistive Technology Foundation - disability

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These are great!

I donate regularly to our [city] community foundation for local giving because they support multiple causes right within my city through grants and gifts (homeless services, arts program, etc.)

I also “donate” to Climeworks which is one of the first/only large scale carbon removal companies that is backed up by a lot of rigorous science as being actually carbon negative. It’s a for profit technically and purchasing carbon credits but it comes out of my same charitable giving bucket currently.

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My big ones are:

  • [County] regional food bank
  • IRC for international aid
  • ACLU
  • Planned Parenthood, split between the medical and political wings
  • NPR/LAist

There are so many good orgs out there but I find it personally more meaningful to give $100 in one place than $5 in 20 places, so I keep the list pretty focused. I know that’s something people differ on.

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Trans Lifeline is my primary

I also respect the heck out of the legal team for the ACLU. When my mental health could handle being on Twitter, some of their trans lawyers were some of my favorite follows

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Some of my faves:

Human rights:
SPLC
ACLU
Lambda Legal
Planned Parenthood political wing
USA for UNHCR (refugees)

Medicine:
MSF
Fistula Foundation
Planned Parenthood medical arm
(insert your favorite abortion fund here)

Poverty:

(insert local food bank)
(insert local homeless org)

Environment:

(insert local land trust)
Save the Redwoods
Sempervirens Fund

Miscellaneous:

Wikipedia
Organization for Transformative Works
(insert local animal shelter)

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Ahhh I also give to Wikipedia!

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I feel like I owe them after all this time.

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Going through my main ones, the national/international organizations are:
ACLU
SPLC
Wikimedia
NPR
PBS
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
Planned Parenthood
MSF/Doctors Without Borders
World Central Kitchen
Global Giving Foundation (splits out to various targeted international causes, mostly refugee support and disaster relief)

And then locally skipping the actual names, but:
Poverty/homelessness/education support orgs (there are several here but they work in concert)
Sexual abuse advocacy center
Women’s health center (includes funds that don’t need to be searchable)
Animal rescue
Library trust

There are some others that might get one-offs if something specific comes up, but those are the ones that are in the spreadsheet currently

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