Charity Ideas

[Bowling4Bikes]

Hey all,

It's already difficult to make ends meet around here and I anticipate it will only get harder in the coming months. Let's put together a list of charities that we like, know, or already donate to so as to maybe inspire more giving. I'll start

Tri City Food Bank: http://www.tri-cityvolunteers.org/ nice people.
Bay Area United Way: https://uwba.org/give/ they claim to be able to give two meals for every $1 donated.

Post up the charity(s) you prefer and let's do a small thing to help our community!

Thanks for reading.

 

[Holeshot]

Great thread D!

A good resource for DV charities / orgs:

https://www.cpedv.org/bay-area-region

DV's are up...way up, so seems a good time for them to need funding.

 

[NorCalAthlete]

Semper Fi & America’s Fund
Second Harvest Food Bank
Sacred Heart Community Service
First Tee

 

[SFMCjohn]

Surj's fav:
Court Appointed Special Advocates are dedicated volunteers helping abused and neglected children in foster care.

well, OK, guess Surj's fav are in Alameda:
Alameda County Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) recruits, trains and supports volunteers – people like you and me – to speak and act as advocates for the best interest of abused, neglected and abandoned children and youth in the juvenile courts.

arty

 

[Bowling4Bikes]

https://www.cpedv.org/bay-area-region

Second Harvest Food Bank

arty

(and one from cheez)

Thanks for the ideas!

Done. Selfishly, I feel very good about myself for doing it. Maybe I can make a tiny difference in the positive direction.

I'm not one to draw attention to myself for donating, but I think this time it's good maybe to inspire others? Anyways, I most likely won't report if I donate further, but please keep the ideas coming. Appreciated.

 

[afm199]

In SF, Hospitality House has provided services to the homeless for many decades, blessed with a small, mostly volunteer staff and low overhead. They actually spend most of their donations on the homeless, not staff salaries.

Shanti in SF. Great hospice and outreach services.

In Oakland, East Oakland Boxing Association, teaching kids to box, feeding them, and tutoring them for decades. Great outfit.

 

[cheez]

This is my current donor list and links to their donate pages for convenience.

Wikimedia Foundation
Electronic Freedom Foundation
Doctors Without Borders
Planned Parenthood
St. Jude's
Habitat for Humanity
Midway Shelter
The Homeless Childrens Network
Action Against Hunger
Feeding America
UNICEF
ACLU
NORML
MPP
DanceSafe

 

[ThumperX]

This is a GREAT thread! Thank you for starting it.

Perhaps we need to revive the not so random acts of kindness efforts?

I was able to donate over 100 pairs of brand new women's comfort shoes and over 50 brand new coats.
They went to :
Bay Area Women's and Children's Center
Bay area Rescue Mission

and an anonymous party who distributed another 25 pairs of women's white comfort shoes to assorted assisted living facilities throughout the Bay Area. Many health care workers in these hard hit assisted living centers earn barely more than minimum wage. I wish there was more I could do for them.

Financial donations go farther than actually going out and purchasing needed items.

 

[Sportbiker]

https://www.feedingamerica.org/ -->Food banks


https://www.donorschoose.org/ -->Help teachers


https://www.helpamotherout.org/ -->Help mothers buy diapers


For the first two, you can chose to support local areas (or wherever you wish)

 

[wazzuFreddo]

Meals on Wheels of Alameda County - https://www.feedingseniors.org/

Here is the link to the national org - https://www.mealsonwheelsamerica.org/

There are a lot of seniors isolated by themselves right now.

 

[Bowling4Bikes]

all your responses make me very happy. thank you

I just saw on my Nextdoor app that someone set up a non-perishable foods co-op in my area. so awesome!

My legendary persimmon tree is getting stripped tomorrow. I've given and eaten and dehydrated. now, it's time to give to tri-city food bank for the rest.

thanks to those who decided to donate a bit more this year maybe because of this thread!

this is the way

 

[lgyee4]

I've been working twice a week at the https://www.sfmfoodbank.org/. Always at the popup pantries. There is definitely a need, not just for resources, but for manpower too. If you're in SF or Marin, there is a need of both to serve the many in need.

 

[FLH03RIDER]

Bowling4Bikes - thanks for posting...

I have a question regarding compensation to individuals that are "Executive Director" types for local non-profit food banks: Would a salary of $150,000 / year seem appropriate? What about $175K or $200K?

Reason I ask is this past November I received a request from the Alameda County Community Food Bank for a donation. Their letter stated that they had a matching fund raiser / grant of $50,000.00 from the Stephen & Ayesha Curry's Eat, Learn, Play Foundation. I did make a donation, although I had not heard of the Alameda County Community Food Bank before so it piqued my interest.

Looking here: https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=5818

It identifies the salary of Suzan Bateson, Executive Director of ACCFB at $265,516.00/yr. The rating for given for ACCFB is 4 Stars and score of 90.2%
Although, it doesn't list any salaries for Board members, nor number of paid staff.

I am not inferring that individuals that work for non-profits shouldn't be fairly compensated but I found this compensation a little excessive.
Am I just out of tune on this and this is just reality today?

 

[two wheel tramp]

I've been working twice a week at the https://www.sfmfoodbank.org/. Always at the popup pantries. There is definitely a need, not just for resources, but for manpower too. If you're in SF or Marin, there is a need of both to serve the many in need.

They get a monthly donation along with Glide Memorial, KCSM (the Jazz station - fight me about that. :x), Planned Parenthood, accesshelps.org (food bank +++ here in Oregon) with occasional donations to Habitat for Humanity.

FLH03RIDER, I don't view the compensation as crazy excessive but it's certainly generous. That might not be all cash, it may include medical/dental, vacation and retirement as well. It's a big organization to manage and you want the best doing it.

 

[motomania2007]

I have supported two charities over the years:
Battered women's shelters
Sacred Heart in San Jose

 

[Nucking Futs]

https://www.whiteponyexpress.org/

This is my favorite and local

 

[Sportbiker]

An easy & great way to support any charity is via

http://smile.amazon.com


Every purchase you make on Amazon through smile.amazon.com nets a small amount to you charity. It's really a no brainer

 

[Melissa]

Donations are great and giving is greaterer.
I used to volunteer at Happy Tails-a place for homeless cats here in Sacramento. They have a feral colony there as well. Donations pay for food and medical expenses. Last I heard they were asking volunteers to read books to the cats.
Working with families with DV in their system and hungry children and drug addiction among pregnant women is my daily. we who are capable of helping society progress and survive is the important action to take. womn, men, children and cats!
oh yes, Chihuahua Rescue and Transport kicks ass too.

Merry Christmas to all who celebrate.

 

[GAJ]

This is my current donor list and links to their donate pages for convenience.

Wikimedia Foundation
Electronic Freedom Foundation
Doctors Without Borders
Planned Parenthood
St. Jude's
Habitat for Humanity
Midway Shelter
The Homeless Childrens Network
Action Against Hunger
Feeding America
UNICEF
ACLU
NORML
MPP
DanceSafe

Wow. :thumbup

Redwood Empire Food Bank https://refb.org/

Food For Thought https://www.fftfoodbank.org/

Ride For Kids/Pediatric Brain Tumor Research http://www.curethekids.org/events/ride-for-kids/

 

[Caddywumpus]

St jude and shriners childrens hospitals are at the top of my list