A large amount of people would choose a big name charity and the charity will ‘lose’ the money donated and we will be ignorant because the information will be buried.

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Obviously not true for all charities but I’d be weary of big name charities. The more I think about it, more I find it strange we blindly send our money to a massive worldwide corporation and assume something would come out the other end. I would suggest these hypothetical people to donate to a smaller and more local but reputable charities instead. Or GoFundMe or YouCaring campaign where it goes directly to the person that the money is supposed to help.

There a lot of worthy campaigns on these fundraising sites including for emergency surgery, buying food/baby formula, paying part of someone’s rent (shelter), car payment/petrol (so they could leave a dangerous situation or get to work), dental surgery, Hormone Replacement Therapy, Gender Confirming Surgery, travel fund for someone who needs to see a specialist, or a funeral fund.

I would like to able to to pay off someone’s entire GoFundMe or YouCaring campaign one day to know they are experiencing sense of joy or great relief.

If everyone donated to a dollar worthy campaign, a lot of people would feel very reassured that someone cares about their plight even if it doesn’t cover what needs to be covered.

Note: I believe that when signing up for a GoFundMe you have to agree to the condition that they (GoFundMe) shave a bit off the top of the donation.

We all do but it’s called taxes. Why isn’t the money we pay in taxes also contribute to donations to worthy causes?

If we taxed corporations, had a better scale for tax that made taxes higher if you had more money, if we reduced the money we pay for our militaries to defend against nebulous threats we wouldn’t need to ALSO contribute to any charity because our government should then be able to offer enough money to deserving people - which is everyone in need.

I understand that many religions don’t like that happening becuase they consider it their ‘problem’ and they don’t like government agencies ‘interfering’. However, can I suggest that this is done to help conversions rather than to actually bring people to religion - sort of like ‘brownie points to enter heaven because we’ve done good stuff for people which is what Jesus said he wanted’.

There are limits to what charities can do, so unfortunately no, that couldn’t possibly solve world hunger. Take North Korea for example. You can’t do anything there without the supreme leaders explicit permission. Human rights organizations can’t even gain access to famine ridden areas to accurately assess the situation. More money just can’t solve this.

North Korea is a bit of an extreme example of course, but most populations face severe hunger challenges for reasons that are human-made. Natural famines tend to be temporary. They can stem from natural disasters such as droughts and floods. But man-made famines can go on indefinitely.

Corruption, exploitation and conflict can cause populations to persist in a perpetual state of underdevelopment. Charities can treat the symptoms, which is of course very important in itself. But they can’t fix the underlying root causes.

But they don’t have to. World hunger isn’t a thing that can or should be solved by any one party. I believe that many small contributions from many different areas (including charities, but also science, technology and others) will ultimately solve world hunger, bit by bit.

It would not even put the slightest dent in their wealth. Most people don't realize how wealthy the rich really are. One of them alone could solve world hunger if chose to. Elon Musk was given that opportunity, but in typical rich man fashion. He chose to overpay for twitter so the the Republicans could have another place to spread their propaganda. As you all know that's much more important then feeding the starving people on the planet. If they gave 20% of their wealth they could solve all poverty in The U.S. Not to worry though, short of a revolution that's not ever going to happen. That would mean the middle class would have to join in with the poor and stand up and say their sick of the way things are. But the rich have convinced the middle class that the reason people are poor is just because their just lazy. Lol That's why the rich need places like twitter, and their own 24hour network news. Plus they control 80% of all the A.M. radio stations in the country. So they don't have any trouble controlling what a lot of the voting public think. The reason the country had done so well up until the 80,s is the Government forced the wealthy to reinvest their profits back into their company's and the country. So everybody benefited. Reagan changed all that with his trickle on the middle class and poor economics. Slashing the wealthy,s taxes to nothing. So they did not have to invest their money back into the country. They just stuck it away and got richer as everybody else has gotten poorer. They have cut their taxes almost every Administration since. Tell Trump finally cut their taxes to absolutely nothing. They don't pay anything anymore.The middle class and poor shoulder the burden.You got to love America. The rich bends everybody over. What do we do?Say thank you sir may I have another. Then sit around arguing about black repreations,or Transexual rights or critical race theory or building a fucking wall. As long as we're doing that nobody is paying attention to how bad we're getting fucked by the wealthy in this country!

What would happen if everyone in the world gave me a cent (.01% of a dollar)?

You would have 75 million dollars at your disposal. Not sure how the taxation would look for that. Possibly, since such a small amount was given by each person, it would not create a tax event at all. If so, then you would have all of it at your disposal.

Beyond that, what would happen would depend on your choices as to what you were going to do with that money. And given the amount involved, you could do a lot of good for a lot of people. In fact, if you played your cards right, you could do it without even touching those 75 million bucks.

with world population being 7,714,576,923 by 2019 pole. You would have $7,714,576,923 Dollars. The down fall not every country uses dollars. Some places that could be lots of money. places like Sierra Leone, where workers can expect just $0.03/hour. that would be a day and a half work. India is the lowest among larger economies with a $0.28/hour rate Taking almost 4 hours of pay. To be fair with everyone take just 1 hours pay some would pay as low as $0.03 cent and other as high as a few hundred Over all it would balance out and not hurt the lower income as much. Also you may get way more than $7.7 Billion.

Your question is excellent. Zakah has done much to alleviate poverty. Today, many governments and people give, organize, and work with charities, but poverty and hunger have a timeless grip on humanity.

It seems impossible to know that people are starving, while people are giving their time, as millions of volunteers have given billions of hours of service. No matter how much is given, the need is greater than the gift.

It comes down to basic mathematics. Governments, people, organizations, and companies would need to work more and give more. We are making progress, but the struggle against poverty is a major task.

An immense number of needs would go unanswered. Charities address hundreds if not thousands of needs of humans, animals, and nature. They do incalculable good and probably the donated hours by the volunteers exceeds the value of the monetary donations. Years ago I was a member of the local Elks. Just one of their many charity events was a barbecue that brought in $20,000 that was given to a special needs school in the area for diapers, emergency clothes, and a hundred other things that they didn’t get funding for but desperately needed for the children. That was only one of thirty or more charitable things the lodge did and does. That is one of many civic organizations answering needs just in the community. At that time the Elks gave out more money in scholarships than the US government.

I would have definitely chosen the Kalgidhar Society of India. The Kalgidhar Society is the non-profitable charitable organisation that uses the donations for the sponsorship of the poor and unprivileged ones and also for the development of the country in all possible ways. The Kalgidhar Society is an organisation for child in need, so all the donations are utilised for them. They used the money in providing education, healthcare and other facilities to the people. They also provides help during the emergencies from the donations. I would donate to the Kalgidhar Society as they provide education in the Akal Academies established by them and tor the betterment in the facilities they uses that money. They helped out many poor and unprivileged children with the free education and also the provision of book for free are made to them. The Akal Academies offers low-cost education to the children as well as education for free is also provided to many, 70000 children are educated per year and 28052 are free/aided. The Akal Charitable Hospital also helps the people with low-cost treatments. The donations done to the organisation is used for organising free camps and even free regular checkups for the poor ones. Proper medication is also provided to them. The money which is being given to the organisation is also efficiently used in the Home for Widows and Destitute so as to provide them proper environment with proper clothing, food and shelter even their children are also taken care by them they are sponsored with the education facilities and the other facilities like the healthcare one. Also, for the provision of Free Teacher Training Course under Akal Institute of Rural Women Empowerment Project is provided to the rural women for their employment. The organisation helps the people in emergencies too. Like in the recent floods in Punjab, the Kalgidhar Society delivered them with all the amenities like food, medicines, clothes etc. Also the people were helped emotionally too. Many of the houses destroyed during the floods were also repaired by the Kalgidhar Society itself. This is how the Kalgidhar Society helps the people in all the ways and the reasons why i feel like donating to tehr Kalgidhar Society of India.

No.

There are over 7 billion people in the world.

Many of those are so poor that contributing a dollar would be out of the question, but just for the sake of argument, lets say that for every person unable to contribute, one of the most wealthy people contributes a second dollar, so that the net gain is still 7 billion dollars.

Now, lets also say, just for the sake of argument that you can feed a person for 25 cents per day, including all the infrastructure and delivery costs. It literally takes 25 cents a day, total, no overhead, no nothing.

That means you have 28 billion days worth of food ready to go.

Lets say there are a billion hungry people in the world. You can feed them for a month, assuming that month is February (in a leap year. Other years, you can feed them for a month and a day)

You can’t end hunger by feeding people for a month.

How do you donate, give or spend $100 for charity?

When I have money to spare, I support several different charities in several different ways.

1. A dog rescue group in Virginia. If I have $100, I'll send it to them via PayPal to use as they see fit. It could go for food, vet bills, or other expenses. If I don't have much cash, I'll go to the group's Amazon Smile page and order something on their wish list. It could just be paper towels, or it could be something more. I sent 24 puppy collars once because the rescue took in a mama dog with 15 newborn puppies.
2. Boy /Girl Scouts. I donate to our Boy Scout Troop (and Scouts in general) in numerous ways. This past year, I purchased and donated six 4-man tents and two easy-up shade structures. I also bought popcorn and camp cards. I support the Girl Scouts by buying cookies. Lots and lots of cookies.

I also drop money into the firefighter's boots during the MDA Boot Drives (didn't see any this past year, though). I've sent checks to the John Wayne Memorial Cancer Fund. And cash donations via PayPal to a local organization that helps homeless people feed and care for their pets.

No. It’s not just about money it’s also about economic policies and distribution of resources. At most you could end world hunger for a day.

If you want to end world hunger, the best thing you could do would be to create programs funding small agriculturalists to form cooperatives and share their knowledge and expertise while setting up systems that enable them to make a living. You could also redesign the global trade rules to decrease dependency on cash crops and encourage food security and the production of food as a resource to actually feed people rather than a commodity to be sold for profit.

There are a whole bunch of things to be done to solve world hunger but I don’t think any one of them could be actualised by a single, one-off dollar donation from everybody.

Besides, who would administer the allocation of all these dollars? I can see a whole bunch of corrupt officials squirrelling the cash away in Swiss bank vaults…

Each month, I’d donate the entire amount to a different cause I care about:

• Knowbility regarding its Accessibility Internet Rally (AIR)
• a rural nonprofit animal shelter, like the one that serves Tonopah, Nevada, because I know it would have HUGE impact.
• Bpeace
• WorldOregon
• Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky
• Appalshop
• Knowbility again for The Accessibility Internet Rally (AIR)
• a different rural nonprofit animal shelter, probably one in Kentucky
• Williamstown Theatre Festival
• a nonprofit helping women in Afghanistan
• the theater program at Western Kentucky University
• a scholarship for a journalism major at Western Kentucky University

In my limited experience with this type of action, I’ve only heard a bit about returned donations from the very biggest charities. However, I suspect this is true for two reasons. Small- to mid-size charities (from a few thousand up to a few million dollars in annual revenues) often don’t have much in the way of reserves, so if your money’s already spent, they quite literally have no easy way to return it. To do so quickly might even be illegal. Secondly, this is not something anyone wants to bandy about; managing expectations around donations is a big part of any fundraising program. Gifts should be given with as few expectations as possible, beyond reasonable purpose-driven donor restrictions.

It may surprise you to learn that most mid- to large-sized nonprofits (the largest are very few and can run into the billions in revenues - think large healthcare concerns and big universities) routinely use standing policies and procedures to evaluate large and complex gifts. Not all are accepted. A deed of land that may turn out to be encumbered, even stocks or cash gifts that are deemed controversial, can rebound on the charity that accepts such gifts, negatively impacting their charitable public image. For this reason, the returns one hears about are more often initiated by the charity than the donor.

Bottom line: Don’t give anything away you might need back.

Awesome question. And one which the large charities probably don’t want to see the answer to. Whenever I’m asked to donate to a large charity I want to know what the CEO gets paid. If it’s a huge salary, they get nothing.

To be honest (and this is my opinion), smaller. local charities scratching around for pennies will most appreciate what you can give - and make a difference in your area.

Radical moment: I do not believe there should ever be a need for charities. The very existence of a begging group for anyone or anything ‘underprivileged’, is the one sign of Humanity’s utter failure to be a decent species.

If I might take the liberty of converting it to £1,000 a month (due to living in the UK) then it would be Great Ormand Street Hospital for Sick Children.

I more or less grew up there for the first five years of my life, and then went back twice or three times a year for the next 11.

It is a truly phenomenal hospital, and while it is an NHS hospital, and is nominally funded by the taxpayers, it needs every penny it can get and there is never enough money.

Right now I donate a regular amount a month, but only what I can afford. And if I could afford that much more I would donate more, because - quite honestly - I cannot imagine a more worthy cause.

For me personally, nothing really. I would throw it away because it isn't my country’s currency, and the fact that over $7,000,000,000 has just entered the global economy its value against the pound would make it practically worthless. Probably couldn't even buy a Freddo or a Chomp with the pennies that dollar is now worth.

Politically the Democrats would blame the Republicans, and the Republicans would blame the Democrats, Trump would claim it is false news and the economy is fine, trust him and a large number of people would believe him despite the fact that their country has just been thrown into a catistrophic recession.

Socially there would be millions of memes made about this event and even more annoying questions that are intentionally loaded on Quora to make it seem like one group is to blame or another (be it atheists, any religion, or any political or social group, take your pick because there will be hundreds of repeats of the same question just aimed at one group or another).

Economically America would be ruined and a global recession would come from it, but most the world will bounce back quite quickly as China finally secures its place as the central global economy.

I’m an animal lover. I’d split it between Puppies Behind Bars, a highly rated organization that places puppies with incarcerated people who train them to be service dogs for vets. It’s a wonderful, wonderful organization that benefits the dogs, the vets and the prisoners.

Next up? St. Huberts Animal Rescue in Morristown NJ. They have been instrumental in interventions in our area, but they also brought many, many shelter animals here to clear the shelters in Houston so they had room for estranged animals to be housed until their owners could be found.

And then? Planned Parenthood. Because they need funds to help families, well, plan parenthood.

And then my local Dem candidates. Blue Tsunami!

You know, stop and think about that for moment. About 4 billion people on the earth. What would you do with all that money if you were chosen? So, let's say you now have 12 people at the end of the year, each having 4 billion dollars. So 12 x 4=48.
You and they all get together and form a club. So my question to you is:
What would you 12 people do with 48 billion dollars? Would it be good or would it be bad. Ok, let's go further. All 12 of you each spend 100 million dollars to buy all clothes and shoes you would ever want or need, 5 mansions each, 30 cars for each day of the month, gold, silver and diamond jewelry, servants of all kinds, travel to anywhere in the world. You and they got it all. What ever you want, you got it. Good or bad?
Now what? But you now live in much higher world. Do you reject your friends and relatives? How do you handle the thousands of people that ask you for a handout or a "loan"? Everyday, every week. On and on. You hire lawyers, accountants. Now you become afraid. You have to hire guards and security devices. Fence in your mansions to keep people out. You have to go out in disguise, with your security people, so people will not mob you for money or what ever. You have now become a prisoner to money and are no longer free to do what you want and when you want or go where ever you want. Is this good or bad? You make new friends, only to find out you are not on their level of intelligence. Government people, big business people, famous people, political people, heads of state. Would they like you? Would they want you as a friend? Or are they just using you for your money? Good or bad?
Would you dream of being back home, in your own bed? Doing things with your friends? Having holidays with your family? Getting away from the frantic life you now have? Good or bad?

We would finally live our nature through only giving and receiving, we all still have a dollar without anyone taking.

Having viewed the Report Card of many charities online recently, it is more important than ever to really research the NGOs that operate locally and globally before committing cash. That said, some of the ones I trust most have the following criteria: they must have a proven record of effectiveness, and not be wasteful. They must operate in cooperation with local people and not swan into a crisis in neocolonial ways. Two I trust are World Vision and Oxfam. Both have had challenges in the past and have learned from their mistakes. They consult continually with the people they help, and create lasting infrastructure that recipients can maintain.