Donors Choose - this is an online charity that connects you with classrooms all over the country who are in need. You can even pick the subject/location/school/grade, etc. Even Oprah likes it, so you know they're on the up and up. No one wants to meet Oprah in a dark alley...
Kiva - They are a micro-finance site. You make a loan to someone, they pay it back and you loan it out again. Start small - feel big. With a 98% payback rate, these people with ambition from the poorest countries in the world are more reliable than most of my relatives! Make a gift of a loan and change someone's life.
Save The Music - Give the gift of music in our nation's schools. Since our school systems don't understand how important music is in kids' lives, we should do it.
God's Love We Deliver - Don't have money to give? Give of yourself. Your time, your ability to walk up a flight or two of stairs. Mix a pot. Box a meal. Make someone's life better and you will be better.
Do you have an obscene amount of money? Help a museum. Have fabulous art? Give it away. Love to teach? Mentor a child. I think 2012 is the year that people stop being selfish and start being human.
