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Need a good Charity to work through
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\the big issue my group needs to tackle is poverty. but this can include anything from building girls schools in afghanistan to wells in darfur.
There's alot of groups out there, but I want to have our efforts behind one of the smaller ones that deal with a more specific issue or project. Thing is, I have no experience with this stuff, so I\m not sure which ones to trust in terms of them skimming money for operation fees, or wether or not they keep on the project long term.
Umm so yeah, if you guys could just throw out a few you've dealt with before..
There's alot of groups out there, but I want to have our efforts behind one of the smaller ones that deal with a more specific issue or project. Thing is, I have no experience with this stuff, so I\m not sure which ones to trust in terms of them skimming money for operation fees, or wether or not they keep on the project long term.
Umm so yeah, if you guys could just throw out a few you've dealt with before..
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Either way, Charity Navigator is an excellent resource, at least for American-based charities. You can search by charity name or by keyword, and access detailed information about specific charities you find: operating budget, percentage of revenue spent on administration instead of actually helping people, salaries of any paid executives, assets, etc. There are even useful premade lists of charities for you to peruse, like the Ten Least-Viewed Charities with High Ratings.
http://www2.guidestar.org/ is the site I used. Its a database that gives pretty easy access to financial information. This sounds sort of like a school project so I wont hold your hand on how to do it. But! I will tell you that just about anything you'd need to know can be found within their 990.
Unless it's a community-staffed, community-focused charity, go to Geneva and knock on the door of an NGO and tell them that you'd like to help out. Don't bother wasting your time with the American offices of things like Greenpeace.
This is advice from Romeo Dallaire, by the by.
I'm also a big fan of The Homeless Garden Project which is a community run garden that helps homeless learn valuable skills and pays them fair wages to work for the garden. It also helps them transition into other jobs.
I also have some information on charities that work with children; one builds playgrounds for children in war-torn areas and another uses soccer in war areas to teach children gender equality and peace building skills.