What's your fav charity?

[TheNiteHwk]

Recently I was presented with a business proposal where part of pitch if you will is: that a % of the income generated by me would be donated to the charity of my choice in my name.

I may or may not get involved in the future sometime... I don't know but the idea set me to thinking: what charity would I choose?

There are so many good causes/charities out there (yes I know some are shams) and some (of the good ones) are dear to my heart for whatever reasons... so what one to choose.

After some thought I decided I would choose: Canadian Centre for Abuse Awareness http://www.ccfaa.com/

So how about all you all... what charity/cause would you choose or what is your fav?

just curious/discuss

 

[Exotic Non-Pro]

Re:

Although not quite a charity, I do like Kiva.org

Helping people in developing countries become self sufficient feels very rewarding.

 

[gramage]

I don't really donate, but I do like attending fundraisers when possible, and for me it's more about what the specific goal is then the charity as a whole. I would say I've probably given more to Alan Young legal cases then anything else over the years.

 

[Noir]

I donate monthly to sick kids.

 

[a 1 player]

Hospital for Sick Children.

I donate substantially every year.

 

[Mrbig1949]

Give all my charity money to the NDP. The point is to change the world.

 

[Cycleguy007]

Me: LiveSTRONG (natch!)
Mrs. Breast Cancer Foundation

We also give regularly to the Sick Kids, and the Canadian Diabetes Association, and occasionally to the Heart & Stroke Foundation.

 

[fernie]

I steer away from donating to the hospital for sick kids. They have tremendous fundraising in place already so hardly need my donations.

ANd I hate the blue t shirt wearing solicitation for donations on the street.

Fernie

 

[papasmerf]

Most any charity that does not seek to murder the unborn.


Too often in human history this has been done and always devastated the society it sought to purify.

 

[Never Compromised]

Hospital for Sick Children
OSPCA
Canadian Cancer

 

[lawyerman]

Sick Kids.

 

[Bopper2]

Make a Wish Foundation and Susan Komen For The Cure (breast cancer)

 

[train]

Give all my charity money to the NDP. The point is to change the world.

While I can't disagree that the NDP is a charity-case, they have no chance to change the world nor would any changes be beneficial. Hell they probably can't change a light-bulb without using a couple of sick days. Sorry you are wasting your money instead of giving it to a deserving charity such as:

Canadian Cancer Society
Princess Margaret
Sick Kids
Salvation Army

There are so many of them and if you can't make up your mind there is always the United Way.

 

[pencilneckgeek2]

The ARCC (Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada), amongst others..... Heart & Stroke, Cancer Society, .

 

[I Claudius]

Doctors Without Borders (MSF, Medecines Sans Frontieres) is my one and only international charity. As one BBC report concluded:

"MSF is largely funded by public donations and the Nobel-prize winning organisation has a reputation for being brash and outspoken in a way its Red Cross, UN and other international counterparts would not contemplate.

Since its founding in 1971 it has not shied away from mixing humanitarianism with criticisms of the authorities. MSF for example was thrown out of Ethiopia in 1985 for whistle blowing on the misuse of aid and more recently in Rwanda for savaging the government on the state of the prisons."

www.msf.org

 

[svtcobra]

I personally donate a percentage of my personal income and my company's income to Sick Kids Hospital (Toronto) since I started my business and until recently at Miami Children Hospital in the U.S. Another hospital for Cancer Research, as my mother had survived cancer 2x with the help of stem cell research when she was diagnose the 2nd time.

I also have World Visions donations of a few kids for the last three years.

 

[4Times]

Outside of the Sick Kids and United Way, I try and donate when I can to the less visible causes such as Huntingdons disease research. The ones that have more trouble getting funding. When I know a winter storm is coming I usually buy and give out a couple of sleeping bags from
Coast Mountain/SportChek at Yonge and Queen. I do like to target an individual homeless person every now and then and just give him some cash and no I'm not talking spare change). Will they just buy booze? Who knows. I know that on this one day, I have made a direct impact on that one person. Think I have momentarily eased the pressure on that person and I don't get a tax reciept. Find I have never regretted doing this.

I have also given gernerously to many unwed dancers at the BR.

 

[beenthere123]

Sick kids, they helped 2 family members and will always be grateful

 

[spankingman]

I support ANYTHING for FIREFIGHTERS as well as a few local Hospitals Mac Kids St. Joesphs


Proud dad of an Ontario Firefighter

 

[TheNiteHwk]

Me: LiveSTRONG (natch!)
Mrs. Breast Cancer Foundation

We also give regularly to the Sick Kids, and the Canadian Diabetes Association, and occasionally to the Heart & Stroke Foundation.

Heart & Stroke is one of my favs also.
And Princess Margret. (cancer)
I thought about those two... then considered well whenever I can each year I do buy their lottery tickets. Not exactly a donation, however does go towards the cause.