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I love to see brides and grooms donate to no-kill shelters....like this one in Indy that I'm extremely fond of:
It's nice to know that people are thinking of the animals - the ones who can't help themselves, and are victims to abandonment, breeding, and all-around human carelessness.
They dig wells in 3rd world countries. They story of the guy who founded it is really cool! Check out the site :)
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I'm doing a donation in lieu of favours, to a local branch of the charity Riding for the Disabled, which my fiance helps out with a couple of times a week. It's a really great organisation. I might see if I can find a horse shaped cookie cutter or cookies as a little cheap thing to give my guests with the donation message on it.
I like animal charities personally but would appreciate any kind of charity donation as a guest at a wedding, I think it's a good idea.
If you're interested in Africa and health etc you might want to look for charities that do things like work to clean water supplies, that would tick all your boxes!
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My favorite charity is www.kiva.org They do tons of work in Africa, and you can designate where your money goes, which is even cooler!
Right now, I'm focused on Haiti (as many of us are) and working with http://standwithhaiti.org/haiti
We also donate to Donorschoose.org (US schools), the National MS Foundation, and Feeding America.
We did an idofoundation registry and donated to Susan G. Komen (because my grandmother had breast cancer) and to the SPCA (because I love animals). We handed out business cards (from moo.com) that I made on one side it thanked them for coming and gave our two charities, and on the other side we had pictures of adoptable animals from the local pet shelters.
I like charities that work to provide food and clean drinking water, and anything that helps children. For example, World Vision. I thought it would be great to donate money to one of those charities, and leave notes on the reception tables that say something like: "As we reflect on our blessings today, we wish to spread our blessings to others. A donation has been made in your honor to World Vision. The donation will go towards..." Etc.
Check out doctors without borders and engineers without borders. Sounds like they may fit the bill...
We're likely going to be making a donation to our alma mater's general scholarship fund. We were both fortunate enough to benefit from it when we were students, we met while we were in college, and we're still pretty involved as alums. It just fit for us. Gameplan (this week...haha) is to provide a business card sized card at every place with a line drawing I'm creating of one of our campus landmarks with a quote from our school song / an explination of our donation + cause. Hopefully folks will appreciate it.
we are doing 2- one to the animal shelter where my family dog is from. It is the only no kill shelter in the area and FI and i cant wait to get a dog there someday.
We are also donating to Avon Walk for Breast Cancer. I have walked ad crewed NYC, we are crewing DC together this year and walking Rocky Mtns next year... hoping i can start doing them yearly but the donation is such an effort.
My best friends little boy has downs syndrome, so mine is Special Olympics.
we are doing National Alopecia Areata Foundation http://www.naaf.org (its an affliction i live with) and St. Judes http://www.stjudemedicalcenter.org/ (dear to my FH heart)
i say pick something you care about and means something to you and your FH.
I lean towards more in country charities however, since often people forget about folks that are needy in our own country - also a big fan of the boys and girls club of america http://www.bgca.org/
Just an update - I think we're going with Action Against Hunger. The charity has good ratings and does work around the world (including Africa and Haiti). Thanks for all the advice!
I would definitely pick Doctors without Borders/MSF. I just got back from Haiti, and for the first week or so, they were the only ones that you would see doing any real work on the ground. I've been giving to them for years, and have always been super-impressed by the work that they do in the field.
http://doctorswithoutborders.org/donate/
In terms of what we are doing, we are "registering" for charitable donations instead of gifts, and are giving folks a list of several charities that we support (MSF, Human Rights Watch, Comittee to Protect Journalists, LAMBDA, and the Prospect Park Alliance) so that people from my lefty friends to my right wing uncles can all find something that they support. We are also thinking of adding Partners in Health, which is a Haitian-based (sort of) medical group with a long history of work in Haiti.
Mrs. DG, I LOVE www.kiva.org! My favorite charities are:
First Book
Big Brothers Big Sisters of America
Susan G. Komen for the Cure
Higher Achievement Program
CFED
We are donating to Higher Achievement Program through I Do Foundation as both FI and I volunteer there and Susan G. Komen for the Cure as I'm an active volunteer and my mom is a breast cancer survivor and my aunt, great-aunt, grandmother and great-grandmother passed away.
I love the charity idea and think it should be one that means something special to you and your families.
We plan to donate to the shelter we rescued our dog from. In Our Hands Rescue http://www.inourhandsrescue.org/ in Brooklyn.
If you look at the site, our Monty is the 2nd dog from the left at the very bottom with a huge grin on his face.(He was one of the first dogs they saved!)
So glad to see so many other bees out there doing this.
Instead of favors, we donated to the Greater Chicago Cavalier Rescue. I also donate to the Midwest Labrador Retriever Rescue, Cavalier Rescue USA, and LEARN Labrador Retriever Rescue. As you can see I love my cavvies and labs!!!!
We're doing favors and a donation and we're doing that thing on theknot/wedding chan where when you buy something online a donation goes to....
My BFF/MOH's baby girl who I consider practically my niece has an incurable, life threatening form of epilepsy so our donations will be going to C.U.R.E.
http://www.cureepilepsy.org/home.asp.
(We're also hosting a silent auction & fundraiser in a couple months too. She does have her own "My Story" page, but I'll refrain from a shameless self-plug for our fundraiser. )
Another one of my favorites is the Alzheimer's Association since both FI's Poppy & my Nana were stolen by the disease
http://www.alz.org
I also really love Ronald McDonald House - they give families a place to live when a child is sick & in the hospital, so the parents & family can stay closer.
http://rmhc.org/
@ darcy - I spent a lot of time in the Ronald MacDonald house in Ont. My sister was in and out of sick kids a lot growing up. Definatly a great charity!
I'm with Mrs. DG-- I do kiva.org. I'm not sure if you would consider it charity because technically you maintain of your money-- but that is what I think is so SO fantastic... you get to keep lending that money out over and over again and making an even bigger impact! Basically you choose an amount to donate and you pick a person to loan that money to. Generally it is people in third world countries who are trying to start businesses. It's that whole "teach a man to fish" thing. Then they pay that money back to you over a period of time. I've lent out the SAME money three different times... each time it gets paid back I just put it right back out there. Yay!!
I also donate monthly to Women for Women International. You sponsor one woman in a developing country to help her attain education, get healthcare, food, etc. Once again... it is a way to help women help themselves. (see a theme with my giving? lol)
We donate to our local no-kill shelters, where we adopted Toby (our silky terrier in my avatar.)
@ Redeemed Rebekah - they really are such a great organization. My niece had cancer a few years ago and my brother, SIL and their younger daughter all got stay as long as they needed, no charge. It really helped a lot.
I REALLY hate to burst everyone's bubble but I was talking to a friend who's a Vet-tech about no-kill shelters and I'm sorry to say that technically... they don't exist (at least not in the NY area). Most places that claim to be will ship the poor animals that haven't been adopted for a long period of time to another shelter where they do the deed. It's really not cool at all and I was crushed when I found out.
@dancy- i've heard the same thing. They are technically "no-kill" because they don't do the killing, but when they can't adopt a dog out they do transfer to other shelters who can put them to sleep. It is really sad but I guess if a dog is in a shelter for a really long period of time what else can they do? I mean at some point it seems almost cruel to keep a dog in there without much human interaction for years. I wish that there was a way to make people understand that dogs are NOT DISPOSABLE so that not so many would end up in shelters in the first place. Also I wish more people would understand that shelter dogs are a FANTASTIC option for getting a pet. I got my purebred corgi from a rescue group that pulled him from a shelter in my area and he is the best dog I've ever had. When I got him he was 3 years old, already potty trained, never chewed, never marked, already had been fixed and had shots, doesn't need to be crated, etc. It's like someone else did all the work and I get this amazing already-trained dog for a fraction of the cost of what he could have cost in a pet store! (stepping off soapbox now...)
We havent decided yet but we are considering
American Diabetes Association - FI works for them and my uncle and my grandfather both died due to diabetes related causes
Alzheimers Association - FIs grandmother passed away last year after suffering from Alzheimers for over 10 years
ASPCA - all of our animals are rescues and we care a lot about helping out other animals
a gay rights organization possibly HRC because my uncle and my best friend are gay and we think its unfair that all humans dont have the same rights
Planned Parenthood
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I'm looking for a charity to donate to for our favors. I'm obviously going to do my research, but I'd like to donate to a place dealing with issues such as: global health, Africa, kids. That type of stuff. Any suggestions for me to look into? I want to avoid anything that some people might be offended by.
Anyone else doing a donation in lieu of favors? What charity are you donating to?
If you were a guest at a wedding where the bride and groom were doing donations, what charity would you like them to donate to? Would you care?