Liberal Charities

[booradleyjr]

I recently bought a business that raises money for charity. It's taken some time to rebuild the clinentelle, but now I'm making substantial donations to charites that I inherited from the previous owner. I question the worthiness of some of these charites and I would prefer to raise funds for liberal/progressive causes. Please suggest well established (3 yrs. or more) charitable organizations that typically have local chapters I might approach. I'd much rather donate to good causes than bogus ones.

[noamnety]

1. ACLU or Planned Parenthood?

Those came to mind immediately. Maybe Sierra Club. Depends on your interests.

[haele]

2. United Way is an umbrella organization.

You might check some of their local lists; many of the local charities they run are for things like local "stop gap" type charities: low income emergancy/critical care programs; at risk teen programs; programs for local children, disabled and/or elderly dealing with their welfare, advocacy, or education; emergancy shelters for domestic abuse; emergancy housing and housing services for the suddenly homeless or working poor; or for hospices and home care services.
The list also includes things like policy statements of the charity (I.E. - a charity will list what other organizational ties - religious or political and what sort of requirement the recipient of the charity needs to fulfill before they can recieve help) and how much of what they recieve ends up in overhead as opposed to how much gets disbursed to those who need the funds. Many of the local organizations United Way supports require a lot more than what they can recieve from United Way.

There might still be some concerns about use of money collected by the United Way, but I'm thinking that their listings might be of some interest to you.

Haele

[njdemocrat106]

3. Doctors Without Borders

Doctors who go help out in impoverished areas. I believe they're involved helping tsunami victims right now. The right-wing has some BS excuse for hating them, also (I forget why, though).

[LizMoonstar]

4. Maybe it's because

they're French in origin (Médecins sans Frontières).

[njdemocrat106]

5. Yup, that's probably one reason.

The conservatives had some other problem with them, though. I'd go find out why, but I'd probably have to look through some right-wing websites, and I don't have my barf bucket handy. :puke: