None of these issues will be improved, much less solved, through shaming and moralizing, hoping 330M individuals will make charitable contributions and recycle.
Give a can of food while doing your Christmas shopping so the super-corps can pay less tax and claim it gives to charity.
Just another systemic problem pushed to the individual, and swept under the rug.
However, while the solutions to those problems aren't being implemented, charity can help soften the blow. It would be correct to think that your charity helps somewhat, but much, much more needs to be done.
Get involved with charity, but also get involved in policy at all levels, local to federal.
To give an example about why this is important, several places I've lived have criminalized things like addiction, homelessness, feeding people who need food, and community gardens.
It was local and state activism that made so that if an overdose was called in via 911, everyone who helped the victim didn't get arrested as a result. That stopped the trend of people not getting help for overdoses, as well as disturbing trends like overdose victims being left on the side of the road.
Local and state activism helped get affordable housing measures passed, as well.
My response was neither meant to shame or moralize, but rather to give people who decide "I'd like to do something right now" a way to do it and get maximum benefit from their contribution.* Should there be other and better responses? Undeniably. Will that prevent me from responding in the meantime and telling others how they may also respond if they want to? No, it will not.
* Before anyone gets pedantic I mean maximizing a charitable contribution's impact by going to an org that uses the majority of the donation to help their target community rather than being sucked up by administrative overhead.