Poor teachers anonymous?

i donate to pets for vets or any other animal therapy for veterans.

Serve Outdoors

Camp Hope for PTSD Veterans in Houston. They take in Vets from all across the country. Great place and great people.

Mission Aviation Fellowship and Wycliffe

Horses for Heroes

https://www.horsesforheroes.org/

And Healing with Horses.

http://www.healingwithhorsesranch.org/

Mission Regan

Mercy Project
Child Legacy
Navy Seal Foundation
Children International

Epilepsy Foundation
St Jude's
CCA
Shriners Hospital

Texas A&M

Ronald McDonald House

Carry the Load
Navy Seal Foundation

Texas A&M? Not another dime.

This is a great list everyone has building here! It is a great reminder of how giving this community can be as well.

Great to see how to help out One-Eye Fat Man and the work they are part of in Zambia. I am sure they would love to steward your gifts.

One other place to check on Christian ministries is the ECFA. It accredits organizations and helps insure integrity in financial practices.


A few I haven't seen mentioned yet that I have given to, traveled with overseas, or have Aggies I taught working for:

Mission Possible (focused on Eastern Europe and Russia)
Frontiers (outreach to Muslims)
Global Aid Network - Humanitarian Arm of Cru

And I will add this as personal note:

After 20 years living in Aggieland, I am in the process of joining Campus Crusade for Christ's team that is working to plant 5 million Christ-centered communities and churches - 1 for every 1000 people - everywhere there is not an existing witness for the Gospel by 2020. At the moment, we are working in over 100 countries alongside an alliance of 75 other agencies and church denominations.

I have a few folks here already partnering with me in my ministry financially or praying for me. I would love to share more if you have any interest and covet everyone's prayers. This link has a bit about our work, my email and form to subscribe to my monthly ministry updates newsletter:
https://give.cru.org/0810883

*Eyeguy knows about my work as I was in a Bible Study to church with Mrs. Eyeguy when she lived in CS.

Bridges to Life restorative justice program.

Mission22. It's an organization that provides resources to veterans in order to combat veteran suicide. On average, 22 veterans commit suicide every day. I'm an ambassador for the program in B/CS. If you or someone you know needs help, let me know.

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This is a great list everyone has building here! It is a great reminder of how giving this community can be as well.

Great to see how to help out One-Eye Fat Man and the work they are part of in Zambia. I am sure they would love to steward your gifts.

One other place to check on Christian ministries is the ECFA. It accredits organizations and helps insure integrity in financial practices.


A few I haven't seen mentioned yet that I have given to, traveled with overseas, or have Aggies I taught working for:

Mission Possible (focused on Eastern Europe and Russia)
Frontiers (outreach to Muslims)
Global Aid Network - Humanitarian Arm of Cru

And I will add this as personal note:

After 20 years living in Aggieland, I am in the process of joining Campus Crusade for Christ's team that is working to plant 5 million Christ-centered communities and churches - 1 for every 1000 people - everywhere there is not an existing witness for the Gospel by 2020. At the moment, we are working in over 100 countries alongside an alliance of 75 other agencies and church denominations.

I have a few folks here already partnering with me in my ministry financially or praying for me. I would love to share more if you have any interest and covet everyone's prayers. This link has a bit about our work, my email and form to subscribe to my monthly ministry updates newsletter:
https://give.cru.org/0810883

*Eyeguy knows about my work as I was in a Bible Study to church with Mrs. Eyeguy when she lived in CS.

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Haven't been able to be in a financial position to help, but I will say this is a good man and great group.

Thanks Justin.

Start your own charitable foundation! I work with InFaith Community Foundation to help donors begin their own donor advised fund. Make a tax deductible donation into your fund, then have the foundation send the funds to any charitable endeavors you wish whenever you make up your mind.

It's a great way to make year end deductible gifts, possibly even maximize your corporate gift matching programs, then distribute the funds when you've made up your mind. Your personal donor fund can eventually play into estate strategies. There's lots of community foundations across the country, and each has different rules so YMMV.

+1 for Mercy Project

https://mercyproject.net/

It's about time I donated them some money again.

Fallen Warrior Foundation is a good one.

I steer clear of United Way. They are a supporter of Planned Parenthood. They will never get any of my money

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Fallen Warrior Foundation is a good one.

I steer clear of United Way. They are a supporter of Planned Parenthood. They will never get any of my money

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I was just about to contribute to some charities through United Way at work. So even if I chose to donate to other organizations, some of it goes to planned parenthood?

Definitely don't want to get wrapped up in that.

Back when I was in banking they always put the squeeze on employees to donate to United Way. Back then you could direct funds to specific organizations.

MD Anderson
Cancer Grace

We give locally, but also to SmileTrain because of family history with PRS.

We also give to the Catch-a-dream foundation. For those unfamiliar with CAD, it was founded to fulfill hunting and fishing requests for terminally ill kids after Make-a-wish changed their policy and excluded hunting, fishing, and shooting sports from their program. Www.catchadream.org

Are y'all familiar with smile.amazon.com?

You go there and specify a charity, and Amazon donates a part of all your purchases to that charity. But you have to go to the smile website every time.

While you can do that the total amount still gets split up by the percentage pledged to the various organizations. In their way of thinking, that keeps orgs from missing out if the people stop giving.

So if the person that directs theirs to PP (or whomever) leaves the company, UW takes a bit of your giving or undirected funds to insure PP doesn't get left out.

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United Way can only distribute dollars that are actually collected. Therefore, on payroll gifts additional costs are subtracted to cover the loss of uncollected pledges.

United Way is given a lump sum from employers versus individual checks and thus is unable to know specifically which payroll pledges are unfulfilled.

Based on prior experience, United Way assumes that 2.5 percent of all payroll deduction pledges will not be fulfilled.

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We typically donate to Local animal rescue groups not including SPCA...smaller groups. Otherwise any of the Masonic organizations like Shriners etc. Within the lodge we have the ability to aid and donate to very local charities.