In a little over a week, I’ll be at the Housewares Show in Chicago.
One of the exhibiters told me that by stopping by their booth, they’ll donate $100 to a charity of my choice.
Oh really?
Thanks for giving me another task.
#408343 — Find a charity.
Seriously though, why not….
If 50 journalists go to their booth, then $5,000 will be given to charity.
So now I definitely have to stop by.
But I have to find a charity first.
Sure I should have one particular charity I give to but every week I read about another worthy charity.
This week, Drew Barrymore was featured donating a million dollars to The UN’s
World Food Programme.
The World Food Program is the largest and one of the most efficient humanitarian organizations in the world.
Why would I consider the World Food Programme?
Not because Drew gave money.
But because 25,000 people will die of hunger today and 18,000 of them will be children.
And the WFP website says that a gift of $50 will fill a child’s meal cup for a year.
Maybe most importantly, at least 93 cents out of every dollar received by WFP goes directly to the field.
If you were given the chance to see that $100 reached a charity in need, which charity would you choose?
Post the charity and its website below as a comment.
March 8th, 2008 at 4:30 am
I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you.
Aaron Wakling
March 20th, 2008 at 12:07 pm
Hi! We happen to love http://www.DonorsChoose.org and donate $1 of every t-shirt we sell at http://www.StartaFoodFight.com to that charity!! It’s a wonderful cause that allows people like us to choose specifically where our money goes in regards to students/children in public school systems in need. Teachers submit proposals for the supplies they need and you can choose the grade level, the subject matter and the U.S. city or state!!!