I’d love to know where people are directing their giving these days. I regularly support the National Network of Abortion Funds, the ACLU, the Transgender Law Center, and my local food shelf.
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Pollinator Friendly Alliance
CARE
Valley Outreach (local food shelf)
Marine Village School (local school that was shut down by the district and resurrected by the village)
Planned Parenthood
Climate Generation: A Will Steger Legacy
ActBlue/Everytown for Gun Safety
WWOZ (New Orleans radio station)
KBEM (Twin Cities jazz station)
Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia)
We are atheists, but we proudly donate to a local church that runs a huge food bank, provides free vaccine clinics, housing assistance, shoes, toys, work clothes and more. People proudly following Jesus’ example and dedicating their lives to doing real good in the community.
Well said. And same here...our local food bank is run by a group of churches in town and I'm happy to support them.
This piece from Jeff Atwood about his family's giving plan is a good read. "Our family pledges half our remaining wealth toward an American Dream founded on love."
GiveWell prioritizes a research based list of top charities that is focused on saving as many lives as possible per dollar donated. Most of my contributions go here.
It's not exactly direct relief for people struggling, but giving Wikipedia and Archive.org a few bucks is worth doing.
ACLU
Southern Poverty Law Center
Republican Voters Against Trump
TurnUp
GiveDirectly
Current financial contributions include ACLU and MMRI.
Time contributions primarily include the food pantry at the local church, food related activities through the cooperative extension system (part of the state's land grab school), and the local and regional service club.
Among others: Audre Lorde Project and Sylvia Rivera Law Project (both NYC)
I am not LGBTQIA+, but so what.
Vermont Foodbank
VTDigger (local journalism)
Propublica
The Markup
Children's Literacy Foundation (CLiF) (local/regional)
Inside Climate News
Data & Society Research Institute
Wikimedia
Adding a few not mentioned yet:
Good Food Institute
Mozilla
Signal
New Economy Project
Doctors without Borders
And a +1 on donating to local food banks, immigrant/refugee centers, and walkable/bikeable infrastructure groups in your community.
I'm a big fan of World Central Kitchen. I started regularly donating to them when the Ukraine war began and they were feeding refugees. I didn't expect that just a few years later they would be feeding people in my own state after catastrophic floods.
An extraordinary and agile organization. One benefit is that I'll know my community is in deep shit if I find World Central Kitchen in my neighborhood.
@kottke I post my roster of donations annually--a few organizations come and go. Here's my list for the end of 2024: http://www.ahoneyofananklet.com/2024/12/30/my-year-in-contributions-2024/ #philanthropy
Many political campaigns, Feeding America, & supporting local arts causes like Overture Center in Madison.
Palestine Legal does vital work not just for Palestinian liberation but for the freedom to protest here in the US.
Off the top of my head...
Yellowhammer Fund
Brigid Alliance
ProPublica
Counterpunch
The Trevor Project
Til recently but not sure I'm going be contributing again: AOC's PAC
DSA
Jewish Voices for Peace
Idea is to find organizations getting the $&!# done and don't have wealthy backers keeping them financially secure.
In Chicago - Indivisible Chicago for everything anti-Trump and his bunch. There is an Indivisible group in many cities.
Locally; our land trust, historical society, WERU community radio station ( great call letters!), workers housing initiative, the animal shelter, our volunteer fire department and ambulance service, our meals on wheels program, and maybe seven emergency aid drives for fellow residents. Outside of my town; Massachusetts women and children’s shelter and an animal shelter, Callen-lorde, Wikipedia, The Guardian, ACLU, SPLC, Doctors Without Borders, Planned Parenthood, World Food Kitchen, and various relief organizations for Palestine, Ukraine, and South Carolina. That’s what I can think of without looking it up. I’ve explained this to some people as atheist tithing- albeit without any sort of income-proportionate cap.
My monthly recurring donation list:
Wikipedia
Pro Publica
Gerber Hart Library & Archives (LGBTQ library in Chicago)
Doctors Without Borders
Planned Parenthood of Illinois
ACLU Illinois
NAACP Legal Defense Fund
Palestine Childrens Relief Fund
PAWS Chicago (animal rescue)
Global Action for Trans Equality
Kaleidoscope Youth Center (Columbus, Ohio LGBTQ youth center)
Lambda Legal
Southern Poverty Law Center
Amnesty International
Midwest Access Coalition (for abortion access)
Made of Millions (mental health educational group)
The Exoneration Initiative (works to get wrongful convictions overturned)
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