Good Holiday charities?

[Caniac]

What are some?

I know the Salvation Army, and I was thinking about Toys For Tots, but I can't find anything on the website about monetary donations, just toys.

Does anyone know of a great cause to give to?

I was thinking about setting up an LGC charity drive link for the month of December and either have it link to a charity directly or do a collection to paypal or something and then donate the sum to the charity...

Thanks for any suggestions!

[Alicia]

American Red Cross, and blood donations are always needed, especially during the holidays.

[apolinar]

www.ucaredv.com
My domestic violence shelter program in Clinton.

[SouthernHockeyChick]

We're giving to the Red Cross this year and specifying that the money go to the earthquake relief in Pakistan. After Katrina, et al that diaster got very little attention. They still have 1000s that are homeless and their very severe winter is on it's way. Another good thing right now is to give to the Triangle Red Cross chapter (or whatever your local chapter is) and specify it be used for local work only. The locals are probably tapped out with all the international and national giving we've had to do lately.

[Alicia]

Toys For Tots, but I can't find anything on the website about monetary donations, just toys.


http://toysfortots.org/

https://toys.entango.com/

[StormShaman]

Doctors Without Borders (Medecins sans frontieres) is a good one.

http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/

[Night Train]

Child's Play - Toys and games for sick kids.

http://www.childsplaycharity.org

[Shell]

I'm organizing "Adopt a family" at work through Durham Social Services. Last year we collected a couple thousand dollars and got lots of toys, clothes, bikes, etc. Hoping to do more families this year :) I get to bring all of the stuff to the disadvantaged families houses which is really wonderful. You can get deliver the toys yourself or give a monetary donation and they pick out the stuff and deliver. each family has a wishlist and you can pick the kind of family you want (i.e., how many kids, etc. Plus I always pick families that have socks on their wishlist instead of the XBox 360). I'm sure Charlotte has a similar thing. Only word of warning is to not go too overboard.. last year we got SO much and they really didn't have room for it all in their very tiny house.

http://www.thevolunteercenter.org/events/shareyourchristmas/syc.html