What's your favorite charity or nonprofit organization?

shanae727

Just curious what your favorite charities are and why? (feel free to post a link)

cakelady69

St Judes Children's Hospital, they do amazing work for children. I have supported them for years and will continue to.

Also, American Cancer Society. This holds a special place in my life, because I have lost so many family members to cancer.

hacker1234

World Vision.....we have adopted a couple different kids and it's nice knowing we are helping them get an education and hearing from them periodicaly about their progress.

ValerieMartini2Olives

Anything with animals. Humane societies, ASPCA. I love animals. My girl cat is a rescue and one of the greatest things that's ever happened to me.

yallcallmedeb

Prader-Willi Association (USA) http://www.pwsausa.org/

My daughter has this rare genetic syndrome for which there is no cure or treatment for the hunger which is the overwhelming characteristic of the syndrome. As such, we are very driven to find ways to improve the lives of individuals with PWS. I will be running in a Halloween 13K on 10/27 in order to raise awareness (you've never heard of this syndrome before, have you?) and funds for PWS. (BTW.....I have never run 13K yet in my life but am actively training for it!)

RobynMWilson

Anything with animals. Humane societies, ASPCA. I love animals. My girl cat is a rescue and one of the greatest things that's ever happened to me.

^^ me too. I have 2 rescue cats after my cat of 16 years, Tabby, moved on to Rainbow Bridge in April. They are true characters and I'm grateful to the rescue group and the girl who rescued Weeny, the baby, from a hoarder's house in Camden around the time Hurricane Irene hit Jersey last year. She woulda been dead if it hadn't been for that lady. A voice for all the helpless pets...

samf36

The Hemophilia Foundation of MN/dakotas. We have Bleeding disorders in our family . HFMD does many things to enhance and help persons with bleeding disorders .

AlsDonkBoxSquat

I give monthly to world vision, I'm on my second child. I've raised funds this year for st Jude's. In a big fan of wounded warrior, seeing the benefits my amputee friend receives. Yesterday I dressed up to raise money for the coalition to unchain dogs.

wildhehr2

Dance Marathon....it's a group found on many college campuses that not only raises a lot of money for the local Children's Miracle Network hospital (local for the college--for example, Iowa State University's Dance Marathon monies go to University of Iowa Children's Hospital), but has activities and fun stuff all year long for local "miracle kids" and their families.

JBennis1013

Anything to do with animals. They are so defenseless and it is our job to protect them!! Plus my baby is a rescue!

Dlacenere

www.wobblyfeet.org

My best friend's son is 5 and was diagnosed with a very rare neurogenerative genetic disease called Ataxia Telangectasia that is fatal with no cure or treatment. We are always fundraising to raise money for research to find a treatment or cure, I am on the board for wobblyfeet which is a foundation we have created for this cause.

MissFit0101

March of Dimes. My son was a preemie.

Cole114a

Heartbeat ministries, working to end abortion and to support women who chose to keep their babies.

Spokez70

JDRF for Type-1 Diabetes

also Ronald McDonald House

mallorybriann

DonorsChoose.org

and

Children's Miracle Network

Janet9906

The sick kids foundation (the hospital for sick kids) in Toronto. They operated on my daughter 3 times. 2 major and 1 minor. They are an amazing children's hospital. I support them every month with a donation and I go to many of the events.

Also www.craniokids.org it's a website to help families who child or children are born with craniosynostosis (what my daughter was born with). They helped me get through everything.

Kougra

I support the Take Steps, Be Heard, For Crohn's and Colitis. It is for finding a cure for Crohn's and Colitis. And I hope that a cure is found because I have Crohn's. =^_^=

sara_m83

I donate to charities with maximum impact for saving human lives - UNHCR (The UN Refugee Agency) and Medecins Sans Frontiers. Both agencies work in humanitarian crisis situations and provide emergency response and relief. I was strongly encouraged by Peter Singer's "The Life You Can Save" to give regular monthly donations totalling 1% of my annual income.

Crochetluvr

I have 3....The Alzheimers Association (what my mother died from), Disabled Veterans and the ASPCA.

vbrent07

MDA and Parent Project Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. My son has Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (its one of the worst types) and these organizations do what they can to help support the families that go through this, help with the expensive equipment they need, and also research for cures or other medicine that can help the symptoms. I also like St. Judes and any other organization which helps children.

LastMinuteMama

I absolutely love this one just for the story and how it demonstrates the amazing resilience, faith, love and hope people have.

This family lost their daughter in the Haiti Earthquake and have committed themselves to carrying out her last wish. I've been following the progress and donated several times. I love it!

Check out Be Like Brit:

http://belikebrit.org

KyliAnnHobson

I'm currently fundraising for an organization called Running for Rescues ( http://www.runningforrescues.org/index.html ). I think it's a great idea and combines two of my favorite things, running and helping animals. So far I've raised $595 and I have until my half marathon on October 20th to raise more! I'm pretty excited about it!

lachesissss

The Nature Conservancy and the World Wildlife Federation

fit30s

Locally:

-our Autism Society, because we are members

Generally:

-Crohn's and Colitis charities, because a young relative has it

Globally:

-World Vision, because it's awesome

And:

-The Salvation Army, because throughout my life I have been quite involved in the charity side of this Christian church

Tropical_Turtle

the Milo Foundation - where I adopted my dog (rescue)

Soldiers Angels - to support our military men and women deployed

tuffytuffy1

I mostly give to charities that serve children, but this one in particular I love -- http://www.mystuffbags.org/ It gives children who are rescued from a home a bag of things like toys, a stuffed animal, that sort of thing so that they have "something" while whatever is going on at home is resolved. They also have a really low administrative fees cost, percentage wise, so I donate to them through my work every year.

amylovescupcakes

My heros!

http://www.mercyforanimals.org/menu.aspx

Since I saw a local farmer step on a baby pig...I haven't eaten meat since, and I totally love these guys. I rock the Tshirts, and I'm not 100% vegan, but it's something that I work on. NOT for health, but when you have seen animals hurt because they are about to be food, and slaughtered it does something to your soul. My heroes.

foxyforce

i am a big fan of grassroots charitable organizations, specifically shelters and drop-in centres

otherwise, the united way. i feel safe donating to them, i've worked at several agencies where they were a large funder.

shanae727

Thanks everybody! I'm still reading all of the post but I'm super inspired by you guys!

darjeff

Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada ... www.braintumour.ca

I had 12 hour surgery in January 2012 to remove a benign tumour sitting on my optic nerve. Survivor!!

T_X_L

Salvation Army. The head only makes something like $15,000/yr. (more of my money goes to where it's needed) and as far as I can tell, they're apolitical.