Welcome, everyone. While I didn’t get much interest in the other charity thread, I’m going to start this up right now and get it going. I meant to get it going Monday, but I was really busy. We will try to run each week from Monday-Sunday. Post if you donate so we can drum up continuous interest. For those that didn't see my post:
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Originally Posted by GJGOAT
I'm going to bump this since I had an idea today that we could get a lot of people to contribute to. I was thinking of doing a charity of the day where everyone would donate a small amount to a charity. I was going to pledge $1 a day (since I'm broke), but after some quick research, it seems that some charities have a minimum donation (Red Cross is $10 for an online donation, for example). So then I thought, maybe one charity a week, but I want more coverage than that.
So, I propose we will have two charities of the week. I'm ironing out the details, but I'll probably use Charity Navigator to decide what charities are worthy. I'm thinking at least 3 stars, preferably 90%+ go to program expenditures, preferably less than 5% admin expenses, and preferably an accountability score of more than 90.
Anyway, each Monday I'll pick two charities, and we'll donate to those two charities. I'll put in $10 a week, so this covers most minimum donations (if not a dollar minimum, many have a $5 minimum). If the minimum is higher than $5, we can divert the money so that one person is donating $10 to one charity and another person is donating $10 to the other charity, for example.
I'll probably make a spreadsheet on Google that anyone donating can edit and we can see how much each charity is receiving every week. I want this to be for an entire year, and next June I'll pick (or we can vote on) the top 10 charities that were donated to and those will receive an additional donation from everyone participating.
Anyway, I want to basically know who is interested right now. I am thinking of having the first 2 charities picked on Monday. My goal is to have everyone who can donate that week have it done by Friday so we have a routine and can see if there is a week where a charity is being neglected.
Anyway, here are the first two charities:
Description: Anyone who has watched ESPN knows about the V Foundation. Named after the late basketball coach Jim Valvano, the charity collects donation for cancer research. Jim passed away from bone cancer, and much of his legacy is based off of his speech during the 1993 ESPY awards when he was battling from cancer. A famous quote from his speech is used as the charity’s motto. “Don’t Give Up…Don’t Ever Give Up.”
Why I chose this charity: A very reputable charity that I’ve seen plenty of publicity for and never actually donated to. They have a charity drive every year on ESPN, but their charity should not be forgotten for the other 51 weeks of the year. And cancer sucks. Easy call.
https://www.jimmyv.org/
Description: A lot of times I’ll probably just copy Wikipedia, so here it is.
The Elton John AIDS Foundation (EJAF) is a nonprofit organization, established by rock musician Sir Elton John – in 1992 in the United States and 1993 in the United Kingdom – to support innovative HIV prevention, education programs, direct care and support services to people living with HIV. It has raised over $200 million to support HIV related programs in fifty-five countries.
Why I chose this charity: To keep track of what types of charities we have covered, I’ll most likely choose two similar charities each week. This was chosen as this is one of the highest rated AIDS charities on Charity Navigator. Elton John is also involved in other ventures and important issues such as LGBT equality. And just as cancer sucks, HIV/AIDS does too.
http://ejaf.org/
I’m not sure how often we will run into something like this, but for the EJAF, there are two sites that you can go to donate. They have a NY and London branch, so each branch deals dedicates its efforts to a certain part of the world. Maybe if we split it up that would be most effective, but in general, I’ll be donating to the US branch of any of these large charities that might have worldwide offices as we will be covering world problems such as clean water, for example, anyway.
Here is the spreadsheet link:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...it?usp=sharing
Post your name and donation amount. If you want to donate anonymously, that’s obviously fine, but I do ask you to post into the spreadsheet so we can see how much we’ve raised. If you are the first anonymous donor, you would put Anonymous1 under the donor column. I'll update it with a new tab each Monday so weeks and amounts donated per week are easy to keep track of.