Local food bank, local SPCA chapter, Habitat for Humanity, and sometimes to Public Radio. But I should donate more often.
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My main charities are the Humane Society, the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, my local church (which supports all kinds of local needs), a local food bank, and the ACLU. I also donate to various organizations that do serious journalism, including NPR, PBS, ProPublica, Common Dreams, and the Guardian. And finally, I always try to donate to projects that produce things I use, like Fedican, PieFed, Voyager, Signal, Meshtastic firmware and Android app, and Thunderbird. Most of the donations are small, but I do what I can.
My local animal shelter. They brought me my best friend.
Doctors Without Borders and the ACLU.
Our small library has a collection of donated food and other basic necessities at the front for those who need it, always felt pretty good about that one. Libraries are awesome
I donate to Signal from time to time.
I don't anymore. Too many of them are corrupt.
I volunteer to my local community 10 hours a month on average. Giving your labor and time is a lot more rewarding than giving money to some abstract charity.
I'm much the same. I volunteer at the wildlife rescue here, so I see the work being done and know the money is going to a good place. If they need something for us to get things done, I chip in. It's also very rewarding, a lot of fun, and I get to meet great people and learn cool things.
I'd like to do something for the poor or homeless too, but I haven't found the right opportunity yet, plus I need to address some personal health stuff before taking on more responsibility.
You can't do anything for them. The homeless problem is a black hole, among other social problems. The need is infinite.
Food Not Bombs is what I had been looking at, but the local-ish group seemed inactive. I just looked it up again though and they posted some updates about how they've been reorganizing. I feel feeding people is something positive, pretty much regardless of actual need. Everyone needs to eat. I think it's the Sikhs that do a community kitchen, and I always thought that was very inspiring. They operate in a place with a high immigrant population and I saw in their updates a lot about supporting the unrecognized indigenous people of the area too, which seemed very cool.
Signal
Anti-slavery International
Wikipedia
Electronic Frontier Foundation
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I donate to wikimedia each year.
Ffrf, doctors without borders, local food banks and libraries mostly
I've donated to Betterbird, FreeFileSync, Ardour and hashtag mutualAid
well given im somewhat of a charity case myself atm. none. Even when doing better the math on retirement has never came out in the black so while I am at rediculous levels of not spending now its been a long time since I could casually spend. I mean like going out was a monthly thing at most and even then had to not be to pricey.
My two big ones that get money and my time are a couple of local dog rescues and prison re-entry group that helps the recently paroled. I also give to the local non-religious food bank, our independent radio station, an LGBTQ and AIDs awareness group, a wolf protection group, and a keep our river/trails clean org. I donate my secondhand items to a thrift shop that raises money for low cost spay/neuter services.
Doctors Without Borders, EFF, ACLU, and Surfrider Foundation on a monthly basis.
GNOME, Guix, LogSeq, Signal, Codeberg
CodePink, local library, local food bank, National Network of Abortion Funds, Trevor Project, Young Center for Immigrant Children, Doctors Without Borders, left-wing political parties/orgs (Green Party, PSL, FRSO, Peace & Freedom Party)
Unicef
I am an election poll worker and do the MS and Alzheimer’s walks. Used to do videos for the VA.