Charitable giving in progress

Even though I have started keeping a spreadsheet to help me through the end-of-year donation thicket, I find myself making the same awesome discoveries over and over again. For the third time, note to self: the easiest way to make truly anonymous charitable donations is through Network for Good. NFG also provides a way to search for charities by keyword and state, which led me to Groveland Emergency Food Shelf, which focuses on homeless youth, a truly tragic population. Plus searching on charity name, of course, which allowed me to donate to some of my old favorites that had hopelessly frustrating websites.

I managed to find a suitably anonymous way to donate directly to Feeding America (a foodshelf support network) as they now offer payment via Amazon. They are still shaky on the concept of anonymous donation, requiring name and address (but no phone number, which is the deal breaker for me). I gave them my name and put nonsense strings in the address fields, which should short-circuit the junk mail.

Once I rediscovered Network for Good, I made donations to the following:

• Partners in Health - those guys that do all that good work in Haiti


• The Tubman Alliance


• People Serving People


• Groveland Food Shelf

I can afford a couple more. What good causes do you donate to? (or would donate to if you had the money?).