I Give a Crap
I just found a pretty neat Facebook group. It’s called the I Give a Crap Coalition, and if you join the group you are expected to donate a dollar per month to the charities they feature. This month is the Louisiana Disaster Recovery Foundation. This seems like a really great idea: each person only spends $12/year (which is practically nothing, particularly for the upper-middle class people who frequent Facebook), but this adds up to several thousand dollars for the charity of the month. They’ll even send you reminder emails if you want, so you remember to check the site and see the new charity. I don’t mean to sound preachy, but it would be pretty cool if more people joined this group. I have no affiliation with them, and had not heard of them until this evening (when I discovered that several of my friends were already in it); I just think it’s a pretty great idea.