Who donates to charity on a regular basis?

What's the group name, please?

 

I donate to Kiva. I top it up every year.

KIVA has about $3.50 per $25 charges but even then you can choose not to pay that. I love it as a charity because the money is leant to people (not a handout) thus encouraging people to take control of their lives. Some of the initiatives are great. You get emails when money has been paid back, then you lend it again, and again.

I sponsor a child in Bali. During Covid I have sent money for food packages as many are starving.
I donate to other charities but am conscious of where the money goes (and how much). None of these shopping centre, give me your credit card deals.

Both hubby and I volunteer once a week. Me at a great organisation called OrangeSky. Set up by 2 young Aussie guys. It's a van with washing machines, dryers and a shower. It moves around to various locations every week. We set up and people can have a friendly chat and get their clothes washed etc for free.
It's not always easy to find volunteering positions. I found this very frustrating.

 

Donate regularly to six charities per month - World Vision, Oxfam, Salvos, Wesley Mission, Plan International, and UNCHR. Also do a bit of Kiva, and a couple of once offs from time to time. World Vision is the longest, started over 30yrs ago.

 

Hi @geoffw, to clarify, I meant I started contributing on a regular basis over 30 years ago!

 

My monthly donations are almost all to Animals Asia, RSPCA or Animals Australia unless there's a charity being promoted in the office which I'll also donate to. I think I need to get off my lazy backside and volunteer again as I haven't for ages.

Not happy with the RFS (Rural State Fire Service). Gave them a sizeable donation around 4 years ago and then told them to put me on their internal do not call register but they never listened and kept calling me. Told them to stop sending me physical mail but they still do after all these years. After that donation I read a very critical SMH article on their CEO and management at that time in regard to their overly generous level of compensation and inefficient spending. I don't have a great recollection of those details so won't comment on it any further.

 

Restores your faith in humanity when you see so many of this group so generous with not only their time but their hard earned cash ...

 

I don't give anything to any of the big charities, not even the animal ones, as I find there's too much wastage. Instead, I focus on the, I guess you'd call them micro charities for animals. There's a heap of very small charities set up around the country that rescue & rehabituate animals, and most of them are just private people that take on strays, feed them, give them vet care, nurse them back to health if they are ill, and some of them take on foster carers as well. Then they get them adopted out. All this takes time and money, and often the funds in is less than what is spent on the animals.

I also foster kittens. Just got the call to pick one of the latest ones up from the vet, after his desexing. His new family pick him up from me on Sunday.

 

Yes me too. They often do it all out of their own pockets. They are really fantastic people and do so much front-line work.
I also do some of that stuff myself but I do have my limits.

 

Yes, there's some scummy ones out there too though. Like everything you need to use discretion. I used to volunteer for a group that got in bulk food supplies (out of date) from manufacturers, and it would all be dropped at my doorstep. We're talking pallet loads of the stuff. My job was to contact the rescue organisations to come & collect their share of it. I got to know pretty quickly who was good & who wasn't.

 

I like donating to a few causes such as cancer, homelessness, suicide prevention, Salvos and a few locals such as Wayside Chapel and since their early days Miracle Babies. MBs are some the most beautiful people I ever dealt with in a charity org.

 

Ronald McDonald house for me. They provide accommodation for families with sick kids, which always hits me right in the feels. 9k a year pays for a room and with a bit of fundraising through our networks we've had it for over 10 years now. We have a family from the country with a very sick child who stayed 231 days last year. Without this support they would not have been able to provide their child with the care she needs.

 

I will check out kiva