Ask HN: How would you donate a few $20 bills?

4 points·ratsimihah··7 comments

Any suggestion is appreciated, but let's add that I care about wildlife and environment preservation, and that I don't want to just send the money to an association that I have no idea what it'll do with it.

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If you want to see a direct impact of your donation, I would highly recommend doing it through https://watsi.org (YC nonprofit).

It's one of the best feelings when they follow up on a complete procedure and you see the actual impact you've made.

Contact an organization that you care about. Ask them if they use a service/product that is based on subscription. Offer to pay the subscription fee in advance for that service.

For example if organization already have domain name, offer to pay the registration fees for X number of years in advance that fits into Y number of $20 bills.

Not to be dense, but did you mean bills themselves or possibly electronically transferred money?

If it were cold hard cash then you'd have to go local. If it were possibly electronic check out : http://www.givewell.org/

There are websites online that recommend and rate charities by their efficacy or efficiency, and they'll have them grouped by topic. It doesn't matter, though. A thousand years from now, and in the millions of years thereafter, the wildlife and environment will be unaffected by your donation. But if you donated to a charity that helps out humans today, somebody's life will be improved.

I think you should volunteer at a charity that engages in work that you care about and then decide if you still want to donate.

https://www.givedirectly.org/

bitcoin address or "donate with paypal" (last one only if first option is not there...)

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