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My daughter lived in Bulgaria for a year and a half and saw first-hand the plight of children in orphanages there, so she and a friend started a humanitarian organization that helps provide extra food, supplies, diapers, etc. Many of the children suffer needlessly from surgically correctible conditions such as hydrocephalus. All but two or three full-time employees are volunteers, so you know your contribution goes right to the children.
I am not technologically saavy enough to provide a link, but the web-site address is here.

This Article on Marketwatch.com was what I've always looked for, when trying to get the most out of my charity dollars. It will steer you to http://www.charitynavigator.org/. Thanks this webiste, I actually stopped donating to one charity b/c I didn't like how much they spent on fundraising and admin fees. Though I was always conscience of this, I found it hard to find when considering charities.

That said, my top 2 charities right now are:

United Methodist Committee on Relief, www.umcor.org
Air Force Aid Society, https://www.afas.org
Special Operations Warrior Foundation, http://www.specialops.org/

Good luck.

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Heifer International http://www.heifer.org/ because the gift is replicated again and again in the communities Heifer serves. My wife gets me a goat every Christmas. This year we got her parents a water buffalo. The water buffalo (for example) will arrive in an Asian village and increase the food production for a family five-fold, and the family in turn are obligated to give the firstborn calf to another family, who incur the same obligation, and so on. You can give chickens, ducks, bees, sheep, pigs, and on and on, and when you give these gifts as presents in the name of friends and family, Heifer sends you cards to send to the gift-recipients to illustrate the gifts that have been given in their names. (It's fun to visit Heifer's farm near Little Rock, too! They have the sweetest camel you will ever meet. Very kissy and only mildly slobbery.)

and:

Catholic Relief Services (http://www.crs.org/)most particularly because of their work in southern Sudan (http://www.crs.org/our_work/where_we_work/overseas/africa/sudan/index.cf...).
CRS was recommended to me several years ago by Francis Deng (http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2005/05-230.html), who indicated that CRS seemed to him to do the best and most courageous work in Southern Sudan, a place abandoned by most NGOs.

Merry Christmas!

Joe

http://www.spiritofamerica.net/

Spirit of America works with US service personnel in Iraq, Afghanistan, and now the Horn of Africa. The military identifies projects that would improve the lifes of the local people. Spirit of America has rehabbed schools and hospitals. It even set up a medical library in an Afghan hospital. Donors picked out medical textbooks on an Amazon wish list and had them mailed to the US military officer in charge of the project.

Spirit of America has provided school supplies, sports equipment and even shoes for children (some won't go to school in Iraq because they have no shoes and can't walk on the hot sand). They have assisted farmers in Iraq, where Saddam neglected agriculture. They have also trained men in carpentry and other skilled trades, so they could earn a living in rehabbing.

Spirit of America is now collecting donations so it can buy winter clothing for poor people in Iraq and Afghanistan.

I first became acquainted with this group because of a front-page article in the Wall Street Journal:

http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/dhenninger/?id=110004958

The Wounded Warrior Project

Their mission:

"The Wounded Warrior Project (WWP) was founded on the principle that veterans are our nation's greatest citizens. The WWP seeks to assist those men and women of our armed forces who have been severely injured during the conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other locations around the world. Many of the injuries are traumatic amputations, gunshot wounds, burns and blast injuries that will retire these brave warriors from military service."

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Thou art the Great Cat, the avenger of the Gods, and the judge of words...-Inscription on the Royal Tombs at Thebes

along with the Boy Scouts of America.

I'm surprised none of you has even yet mentioned this one, given how child (beginning with the First One) oriented Christmas is.

ANGEL TREE [Link added; I presume that it's the prison fellowship one. - Moe Lane]

Minority Care International is a charity designed to provide housing and education to devastatingly impoverished populations around the world. Current projects are focusing on providing university education to Filipino children who are currently only educated by the Muslim leaders in their local tribes.

A $150 donation provides a semester of university tuition and fees, and you will be provided contact info to develop a relationship with these youths during their most formative years. Obviously, donations of any size are welcomed.

I serve as a member of the Board of Directors of this charity, and would love to answer any questions you may have.

Brent Money
brent.money@gmail.com

The Philadelphia Committee to END Homelessness, on whose board I serve. We are a private nonprofit that believes in a "housing first" philosophy, getting families at-risk out of the shelter system and into permanent housing, from which they're much more likely to succeed in their vocational, health and other needs.

Or just a Freeper rumor?