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Postby deniedjunkie » 10/19/2004, 9:03 am

im just curious how many people support a charity and which ones and maybe include a link thanks.

i support http://www.amnesty.ca,http://www.bcchf.ca/
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Postby nelison » 10/19/2004, 9:24 am

Being a student makes it hard to have expendable income to spend on charities. When I do get older and am capable, I plan on supporting the local (wherever local may be) arts scene, and some other various groups I'm sure.
I can't wait until the day schools are over-funded and the military is forced to hold bake sales to buy planes.

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Postby happening fish » 10/19/2004, 9:28 am

I voted yes because I'm part of Unicef McGill... I hope that counts? :lol:
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Postby deniedjunkie » 10/19/2004, 10:04 am

J-Neli wrote:Being a student makes it hard to have expendable income to spend on charities. When I do get older and am capable, I plan on supporting the local (wherever local may be) arts scene, and some other various groups I'm sure.


im not a student and i find it difficult, i would like to give more but its just not possible , not now anyways
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Postby xjsb125 » 10/19/2004, 10:10 am

Throughout the year I make several donations to:

The Children's Miracle Network http://www.cmn.org/
United Way of America http://national.unitedway.org/
East Tennessee Children's Hospital http://www.etch.com/

Wal-Mart also has an internal charity, Associates in Critical Need, which helps associates who have experienced loss from natural disasters, fires, etc. Someday I would also like to donate to the Make a Wish Foundation http://www.wish.org/ .
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Postby Joey » 10/19/2004, 10:59 am

First 2 are my main ones, last 3 I donate when I can:

I support: United for Animals: http://www.hua.org/ (i'm a buddy/sponsor for a dog there named bella and i donate each month until she's adopted, this is bella: http://www.hua.org/lookhtml2/Bella.html)

Toronto Humane Society: http://www.torontohumanesociety.com/index.html (every 2-3 months with a cash donation and every few months i send care packages from their wish list of things they need for the animals like treats and toys and blankets/towels)

International Fund for Animal Welfare: http://www.ifaw.org/ifaw/general/default.aspx

WWF: http://www.wwf.org/

PETA: http://www.peta.org/

The last three not as often, probably about every 3-4 months with cash donations and once in awhile I buy things from the peta store. I've always wanted to sponsor a child overseas too but I've heard some shady things about some of those organizations so I don't know which is a good organization and which is a bad one so for now I stick to animals.
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Postby Korzic » 10/19/2004, 11:42 am

PETA can get a bit misguided at times though. That's my only beef with them. A bit like Greenpeace
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Postby happening fish » 10/19/2004, 11:50 am

Korzic wrote:That's my only beef with them.


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Postby Johnny » 10/19/2004, 2:15 pm

My family donates to STARS :)

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Postby Random Name » 10/19/2004, 2:16 pm

I don't donate to many charities, but I volunteer at my hospital once a week. I have for about 4 years now actually. And when I was in high school we had a Peace and Justice society that would raise money for charities, organize food banks and blood drives and the such.

I also harassed those people soo much to try and do "keep the beat" but it never happened. I wish it had though.

Part of my Global Issues class last year was to go to Amnesty.org and send off letters of appeal every week.

Other then volunteer work, I guess I don't do much for charities because I don't have the money for it.
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Postby tasha » 10/19/2004, 3:28 pm

i don't donate money, but i volunteer with the NCC, which raises money for the Canadian Cancer Society (through my school), and volunteer with easter seals too.
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Postby nelison » 10/19/2004, 6:12 pm

The closest thing I've done for charity is I started and organized a walk for our local hospital at my school. It was to help put in dialysis machines at the hospital because the closest hospital with the machines was 25 mins away. We raised a little over $1000 which wasn't too bad considering I did it on my own.

They continued the walk last year for a different charity, so I guess maybe I started an annual event.
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Postby Rusty » 10/19/2004, 6:47 pm

I donate to the charities when my school sets them up, like terry fox and stuff like that. I give some money, but I don't have a job and am in highschool so it's hard to give much. My school did raise $5000 for cancer research though.

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Postby nikki4982 » 10/20/2004, 10:26 pm

I don't give to charities yet, cos I'm poor... but when I get a job and have enough to spare, I'll definitely start... probably with the American Cancer Society.
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Postby Soozy » 10/23/2004, 7:32 am

Even though you don't have a job you could still give some time to a charity instead of money Nikki.

I support the following charities regularly:
Cancer Research UK - www.cancerresearch.org.uk - I'm going to volunteer for them too once I've done with being ill.
CancerBACUP - www.cancerbacup.org.uk
Amnesty International - www.amnesty.org.uk
The Peace Hospice (the hospice in the town I live in) - www.peacehospice.org.uk
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Postby nikki4982 » 10/24/2004, 2:22 am

The other issue is the lack of transporation. :uhh: I don't know how I'd even get to a charity to help out.
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Postby closeyoureyes » 10/26/2004, 11:55 am

:drool: :love: PETA and Amnesty.
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Postby gavtodd71 » 11/3/2004, 1:17 pm

Part of my tution at queens is given to charities. You can opt out, but when your forking out 8 grand whats another buck or two.
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Postby Random Name » 11/3/2004, 1:18 pm

Holy crap.


8k would pay for like 4 years of tuition here. :lol:
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Postby nikki4982 » 2/24/2006, 8:42 am

I'm way too good at remembering and digging up ancient threads. :lol:

Anyway, as I said up there ^ somewhere, I'm gonna start donating now that I have a job and enough money to do so.

I was hoping to donate to a charity that feeds hungry children all over the world, but the only ones I can find seem to have a Christian agenda... and, with apologies to any of the Christians on here, but as an atheist, I don't really like supporting that aspect of the charities.

Anyone have any that feed kids with none of that side religious stuff? :uhh:

Oh, and here's a wonderful site I looked for because I really don't like blindly donating:

http://www.charitynavigator.org/

I dislike that the American Cancer Society only has 2 stars, but it still seems to be the best general cancer charity, and I'm familiar with it. Anyone have any better? (This one looks pretty good and it got 4 stars: http://www.nationalcancercoalition.org/ ... I've never heard of it before, though... any thoughts?)
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for, no religion too, imagine all the people, living <font color="#FFFFFF">life</font> in peace...</font>

<font color="#89CDCC">Imagine no possesions, I wonder if you can, no need for greed or <font color="#FFFFFF">hunger</font>,
a brotherhood of man, imagine all the people, sharing all the <font color="#FFFFFF">world</font>...</font>

<font color="#B1DFDE">You may say I'm a <font color="#FFFFFF">dreamer</font>, but I'm not the only one, I hope
some day you'll join us, and the world will <font color="#FFFFFF">live</font> as one.</font></center></font>
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