Black Friday, Cyber Monday Alternative: Charities That Stretch Your Dollar The Most

These charities will make your money multiply! This Black Friday or Cyber Monday, make your dollars count. Our top picks of charities that, for example, turn $1 into $26, are the best bang for your buck.

Or, check out our choices for the most transparent ways to give. Donate $10 and it will go directly toward a box of nails to help build a home for a wounded vet. Want to help someone with a disability? Give $12 for a wheelchair footrest or $300 to build the entire thing.

Whether you've got $1 to spare or $1000 to give, these organizations stretch your donation to the max.

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[NeedSleep]

02:15 PM on 11/25/2011

Weird headline. Black Friday is not a holiday. It is not something that is celebrated or observed. If you stay home or go to work it is just the day after Thanksgiving. If you hit the stores it is just the day after Thanksgiving and is no different than if you waited and went on Saturday. Jeez.

[tomeb]

12:43 PM on 11/25/2011

Is There a Better Way to Celebrate Black Friday?

I think some guys would prefer and Ebony, Saturady morning!

[Trisha57]

12:41 PM on 11/25/2011

I spent the last 3 days crying over the death of my dog, Daisy, that I had to have put to sleep. It was just me and her for years. I was asked to a few homes for dinner yesterday and basically said, I have to stay at home and feel sorry for myself. I went into a food store this morning the way people were grabbing and pushing you'd think it was the end of the world. I came outside there was a man standing with his cart full of his belongings and his dog, he was homeless. I asked him if he needed anything, food or water, he said if you wouldn't mind getting water for my dog. I bought the dog a hugh bowl and a couple of gallons of water, the man almost started crying. Said he could go into shelters but not with the dog, and she is all he has left in the world. Really puts things in perspective. When did we become so greedy and selfish?

[hpsuksnads]

01:32 PM on 11/25/2011

Through despair comes something stronger, a huge heart. You apparently have a huge heart for doing what you did. So sorry about your loss of Daisy.

[petpetdonna]

12:34 PM on 11/25/2011

How to have a good black Friday? Stay home.

[Ben Deleon]

12:06 PM on 11/25/2011

I thought Black Friday was only on Easter, I guess we have to celebrate when Easter comes next year but instead of observing the true meaning of Black Friday we just head down to the mall and splurge. What about Festivus?

[Thomas Wiktor]

11:49 AM on 11/25/2011

I'm just anxiously awaiting news about where the first stampede of Great Big Fat People will be. Too bad the sports books here in Vegas haven't jumped on this cash "cow" because my money would be on a Mid-west Wal Mart.

[hpsuksnads]

01:28 PM on 11/25/2011

LMAO you really put that into a different perspective and gave me a laugh on top of it. Thanks!!!

[Al Walsh]

11:29 AM on 11/25/2011

Black Friday is the final assault of the retailers on humanity. No way I will ever participate!

[dolphins1441]

11:08 AM on 11/25/2011

I love it!!

[Lizaclu]

10:40 AM on 11/25/2011

Recommending charities is a difficult and dangerous business. Difficult because it's extremely hard (some say impossible) to measure impact and further to compare one organization's impact to another. If a group says they spend $10 on a mosquito net, for example, how do we know they didn't spend $1,000 in administrative costs to get that net - how do we know the net worked - how do we know the they didn't put the local net salesman out of business thereby throwing his family into poverty? Recommending charities is dangerous because you can actually do more harm than good by referring donors to less effective organizations. There's no mention of who makes these recommendations or how they decided which charities to recommend. I realize that this is all done "with the best of intentions" - a phrase responsible for so much failed aid over the last 50 years. If you want to promote good charities, don't look to Charity Navigator, BBBWise, or the other big watchdog groups that barely look at impact - check out www.givewell.org - they're a part of the solution - not a part of the problem.

[metsearchllc]

10:05 AM on 11/25/2011

Nothing but a Marketing ploy to get people to blow there money. "Better thing to do",,,yep, sleep in and stay home. I have never seen such a media created day for people to go furthur in debt. And why "Black Friday" why not "White Friday"? It is for Christmas and snow is usually white right? Or is that also a way to get the blacks out and spend there money?? Makes'em feel good when they blow it all??

[petpetdonna]

12:38 PM on 11/25/2011

It is called black Friday because that is when all the retailers accounting books would go from the red into the black. The terrn has lost all of its meaning because retailers are generally profitable all year long. When January comes around and you see all of the new model TVs that are on the shelves you will stop and think maybe I should have waited to buy a new model. That is why electronics are so cheap, the new models come out in January. So you saved 50 bucks and spent 15 hours in a line outside the store. Good for you. Next year you might find your brains and not be so dumb.

[tomoehotaru25]

09:40 AM on 11/25/2011

I didn't know that Black Friday was suddenly a holiday. Shouldn't we be celebrating Thanksgiving? -__-

[showmestable]

08:13 AM on 11/25/2011

Celebrate? Black Friday is not a holiday Huff Puff!!

[hpsuksnads]

01:30 PM on 11/25/2011

This is from Huff Puff! I would not have expected any less from them. LOL

[brod26113]

07:49 AM on 11/25/2011

Yes, there is a better way to observe Black Friday, stay home.

[Ken Koziol]

07:46 AM on 11/25/2011

I am waiting for white Monday,

[havok563]

02:03 AM on 11/25/2011

Best way to celebrate Black Friday? Sleep in of course.