Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Donors Choose

Some people like to give to a charity in honor of a friend, by way of a present for someone who doesn't really need a material gift.

DonorsChoose allows you to give the money to charity, but let your honoree choose who it goes to. And they concentrate on small projects -- e.g. a classroom of autistic kids in Nevada who need $587 worth of photo and other resources to help them learn to communicate. (Nevada has crappy social services.) So whoever you're giving the gift of a charitable gift to can choose where he'd like the gift to go -- and have a pretty good sense of exactly how it helped.

1 comment:

Emily Blake said...

Thank you for spreading this. Earlier this year I used Donors Choose to get a camera for my yearbook staff.

Schools provide very few of the things we actually need for the classroom.