Do you give!

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Originally Posted by killersheep

I donate a decent amount of my income each year. I help out friends that do runs and walks. If I want to give independently of that I check up on Charity Navigator, which evaluates charities on their abilities to fulfill their mission statements and which % of the money goes to overhead and what goes to actual work.

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I can vouch for Killersheep, he's a stand up guy and has contributed liberally to charities that I've been involved in.

I do my fair share of helping the unfortunate. I've done Habitat for Humanity, Muscular Dystrophy Association, the Boys & Girls Club of America, and more recently the Masonic Childrens' Home in North Carolina. I wish I could do more, but I must also look after myself so those donations of time and money continue.

I must admit that I don't really give anything to charity. For me government is about restructuring where my taxes go. It should be a progressive system to help out the have nots more. That's charity. I'm not running up a mountain to raise money, when my regular earnings should have an equal effect.

I don't give money to organizations, normally. Like the ASPCA? I despise the ASPCA. How dare they run their commercials 40 times an hour, and in those commercials tell me that they need my money? If they stopped airing commercials, they could invest the money in building homes for animals, as well as to pay for the staff to take care of their animals. The ASPCA is extremely annoying. I'll kill Sarah Maclachlan if I ever see her.

I give money to friends if they need help. I once lent a friend of mine $500 because he was switching jobs and about to go homeless. He moved to Texas with that money and hasn't repaid me a dime since. I don't even worry about it, because I figure he feels worse about it than I do.

I help out who I can around me. Screw the organizations.