Have you ever wondered if the tiny bit you can spare will help, or if your donations will get to where they're needed? Wonder no more. I just found this wonderful website.Donors Choose is a website that links schools in need directly with those who wish to give. You can browse the various projects and decide exactly where you want your money to go. Many of these schools lack funding for even the most basic things, including books, notebooks, pencils and paper.
The total amounts needed are often relatively small, but mean all the world to the schools. Your donation, no matter how small, goes directly to where it is needed. You might have guessed that education is close to my heart from looking around here. And you'd be right. Unemployed or not, I will always be a teacher.
As we, like so many others, struggle to stay afloat, giving has become a casualty to survival. We're not alone in that. Charitable giving has taken a big hit over the past few years. People can't give what they don't have.
Please, take the time to browse their site. I'm sure you can find a need that touches your heart. I am placing the permalink in my side bar. Click on the Donorschoose.org logo to browse and donate.
We can make a difference.
[UPDATE] Gawker Media has issued a "charitable challenge" for October and many blogs are participating: Gawker, Deadspin, Kotaku, Jezebel, io9, Jalopnik, Gizmodo, and Lifehacker, among others.
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