Calling All Readers! What's Your Favorite Charity?

On Wednesday, Arianna will be a guest editor of Metro, the free daily newspaper delivered all over New York City, Boston, and Philadelphia. Metro is giving Arianna space in the paper to promote a charity of her choice -- so we'd love your feedback on your favorite service not-for-profit.

As readers of her blog know, Arianna is passionate about the need for service, now more than ever. Given the current challenges the country faces, helping those that need help will, as Arianna says, "take more than soaring rhetoric and online calls to action."

That's why we would love your suggestions on those charities about which you feel most passionate. Please send your suggestions to [e-mail].

Comments

[shainalitala]

Jesuit Refugee Service USA
Amnesty International
J Street Pac

[Skye13]

World Wildlife Fund
Goodwill
Salvation Army
GreenPeace
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
Breast Cancer Awareness

[MizzouGirl]

The Homelss Prevention Center in Woodbridge, VA. They do amazing work getting people back on their feet.

[MoMick]

Heifer International gets our cash, Habitat for Humanity, Salvation Army & Goodwill get all of our other donations.

[ohjodi]

Doctors Without Borders

[avicenna]

What a great thread. The charity that I'm most impressed with after seeing first hand the difference they make is the AKDN http://www.akdn.org//) which is actually an NGO that encompasses is a group of development agencies with mandates ranging from health and education to architecture, culture, microfinance, rural development, disaster reduction, the promotion of private-sector enterprise and the revitalisation of historic cities. They recently built the first University in Central Asia and promote the education of girls in developing countries.

[riverhouse]

The Carter Center. President Carter's Center gets more out of a donated dollar than any charity I know. The Center's work in curing disease across Africa is remarkable. President Carter is personally tight with money - nothing gets wasted in any donations to the Carter Center.

[Traci1965]

I like Heifer International. They provide appropriate farm animals to people in poor countries (such as water buffalo in Southeast Asia, llamas in Peru, goats in Africa, bees in Appalachia, etc.) The people are given the animals and taught how to care for them, as well as emergency veterinary techniques. When their animal gives birth to females, they are required to give them to another family in need and teach them what they've learned about their care. This helps build an agricultural base. I like any nonprofit that gives people a hand up instead of a handout.

[MoMick]

I agree.

We've given a pig, a goat and a flock (bunch, gaggle, ??) of ducks in the names of those family members who always insist "don't get me anything this Christmas" and the gift just keeps on giving, just as Traci said.

[belinda1]

http://www.globalfundforwomen.org
http://www.projectzawadi.org/
http://www.tanzanianchildrensfund.org/
http://www.thesenumbers.com
http://www.thefoundationfortomorrow.blogspot.com/

[Democrab]

The Salvation Army; they provide real service without overpaid executives, and they have a band.

[alphonsegaston]

Salvation Army; they live their social gospel.

[Figerre]

Child Light Foundation, which helps children in Afghanistan. Started by a Mesa, Arizona, mom, she has help build orphanages, train and pay health care workers [I did for $50 a month for a year] - clothes, support. this woman is amazing. Diana Tacey, Founder, ChildLight Foundation for Afghan Children www.childlightfoundation.org

[bacaja]

The salvation army. I remember as a kid these people standing on street corners with
a tamberine and a couple horns, standing and playing in freezing cold. They had soup
kitchens, and places where people could get a hot meal and spend a warm night. They also
distribute fruit baskets in prisons. It chokes me up thinking about it. If there are real children
of God they are them.

[theredqueen]

Pasado's Animal Rescue in Washington Sate, Seattle's Union Gospel Mission (for the homeless on our Seattle streets), Smile Train, Doctor's Without Borders, North West Harvest Food Bank, Toys for Tots, Planned Parenthood.

[klbrz]

Food Banks.