Ffrf, doctors without borders, local food banks and libraries mostly
In the past year, I’ve donated to Moodist (one shot, maybe it was the year before though. Not sure.), Monocles (one shot) Zen Browser (monthly). I also donate each end of year to various association for around 300€ : against violence to women (to shelter them), for animals (antispecieist associations), anti-advertising, LGBTQ+ associations and human right associations. These are mostly french associations except “La Ligue des Droits de l’Homme” I think.
I donate to homeless people too, though I do it less recently because I try to think more about my future… and I watch free roller derby games 3 times a year in my city. It is free but they take money if we want, so I give a little (like most people I believe).
Unicef
Signal
Anti-slavery International
Wikipedia
Electronic Frontier Foundation
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I am an election poll worker and do the MS and Alzheimer’s walks. Used to do videos for the VA.
Local food bank, local SPCA chapter, Habitat for Humanity, and sometimes to Public Radio. But I should donate more often.
Public radio sustainers unite! Love me some Terry Gross!
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.
I donate to wikimedia each year.
I’ve donated to endeavourOS and Signal. I also participate in Extra Life every year.
I am thinking about donating to jellyfin and calibre-web-automated next!
I donate to Signal from time to time.
My local animal shelter. They brought me my best friend.
GNOME, Guix, LogSeq, Signal, Codeberg
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.
Charity Navigator is a handy website to vet charities
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.
The best thing you can do for the homeless is vote for and promote social policies that would lead to systematic change. Fight your anti-homeless shelter neighbors, anti-housing, anti-everything neighbors, for example.
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.
Doctors Without Borders and the ACLU.
