Charities 2022

[spacefem]

My monthly automatic donation list is up to six charities now. Auto-donate is the way to go. I love the Bible's 10% goal, but the idea of giving intentionally and thoughtfully as soon as you're paid just doesn't work for me. set it and forget it.

That said, I am not AT the 10% goal, nor will I be this year, but that's okay I can increase a little

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[lookfar]

I voted entirely based on feelings. There's a philosopher named Peter Singer who notes that people do this by sentiment, but if you really believe that all human beings are of equal worth, you will put your dollar where it does the most good, not where you feel the most sentiment. If your dollar can save a child's life in Yemen by providing a mosquito net, it should go there, not to the local food bank, where it buys a loaf of Wonderbread. I find Singer's ideas interesting.

[spacefem]

You know I wondered about that, I’m kind of surprised that the winning vote today is my local food bank! One might argue that every citizen of wichita Kansas is better off than, say, refugee families escaping war in a desert, right? But there are lots of votes for staying local.

[lookfar]

I think people have a sentimental attachment to the idea that God puts in front of you the people that you should care about/it's too taxing to care about all the misery you can read about. But we do know about people all over, so does God or the universe put them in the newspaper? I kind of divide my charitables into "cover my ass" (Planned Parenthood, ACLU, my college, church) and "other people" (local homeless shelter, Remote Area Medical, Doctors Without Borders, Partners in Health, Black Lives Matter). But it's a fairly sentimental assortment.

[fauxklore]

I try to prioritize local charities. But I also put a high priority on organizations that promote self-sufficiency. For example,
I like the Mine Advisory Group because they not only demine areas in countries like Cambodia and Laos, but train members of the communities they work in on how to recognize unexplored ordnance and deactivate it.