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I have brother who needs medical treatment for his heart. But we are unable to meet the entire expenses for the treatment. So we need help from charity organizations/ philanthropists/ individuals. We are placed in Chennai, India. We are willing to come to other places for treatment, if required. Please provide us some details on this. We would be very much thankful to you.

Check in with your local hospital, They will have information there.

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Well for me it’s more like spending time. I do stuff with food banks, womens shelters in volunteering, but my Dad, Yikes he funds many orgs.

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It would be best if you included some sources as well.

Thanks.

www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm

That ought to answer both requests. for you.

i thinks its good that people have charitys. But i dont think spreeding religous veiws at the same time is good not that im agasnt religon. Thats like spreeding political views at the same time while helping people. charitys are just for helping and not opinion

Sure, hurt the poor. This way the poor get poorer and the churches get richer.

Need I remind you of all of the non-religious charities and programs that were very corrupt? Heck, the UN stole most of the money for the Oil for Food Program in Iraq. Out of 2 billion dollars, only $200,000 went to the people of Iraq. Hmmm.

can you gives me like names of websites or maybe info in chesapeake Va?

if you only have charity/volunteer names, thats fine too

You are old enough to start a Red Cross Youth program in your school. Check out http://www.redcrossyouth.org and show it to your parents and guidance counselor.

Yes, United Way has a literacy program, check it out! They also need volunteers to help teach reading in your community

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I always see religious groups trying to make a difference, but are there any charity organizations run by atheists? I’ve seen atheists bashing Christians and other religious people online numerous times, but what exactly have they done to give back to society?

If you can’t find secular charities, you must be willfully blind.

Now that I think of it, whenever I see little orphans being educated in schools, I also happen to see, without fail, a bible somewhere on the TV screen.

Let’s say the people of Ethiopia refused to believe in Jesus Christ (hypothetically), would these Christian organizations still try to help them?

If the answer is yes, then that’s not charity. That’s religious slavery.
@Linda J, I couldn’t if I wanted to. I’ve got school.

I don’t think so. That would be awful charity. True Christian charity would provide charity without obligations. Obviously, though, Christians want to influence them to be Christians while they’re giving the aid. Not through force, but through love. Love is really what the charity is all about. Love is the most effective way to spread Christianity in my opinion, not force.

Yes and no.

Large charitable organizations may have overhead… but so do smaller organizations. For those big organizations that run effeciently, overhead is a smaller percentage of costs because they pool resources.

So say there are 5 medium sized charities and one big one. Let’s compare. The five medium sized charities still need a CEO or Exec. Director, they need human resources department, payroll, communications and marketing, a finance department…

In the larger organization you have the same but often, they have LESS staff than the administration staff of 5 or so medium sized charities.

The bigger the charity, the more likely they are to get sponsorship funding from corporations – sadly, corporates want to sponsor a charity that is going to help them with their sales and marketing (yes, there are a few corporate exceptions out there)

So there’s my YES answer

On the No side: Larger charities usually have so much risk exposure that insurance companies demand more risk management practicies. So in some large charities (not all) you end up with staff that spend all of their time making sure that the form is in the right format and that the manual on manuals is updated and distributed, trained and re-trained. You get the idea (yes, I worked for a big charity that had a manual on manuals). They’ve got forms for creating forms, guidelines and schedules – some of it creates efficiency, some of it just creates more work and more need for administrative assistants and data entry clerks to keep all of this tracked and recorded. Again, not all big charities end up creating a bureaucratic nightmare but the risk is higher that it will happen the bigger you get.

Smaller organizations usually have more active volunteers than they do staff. And the volunteers are more active in day-to-day operations. Small organizations can still manage risk without adding a huge bureaucracy because their scope and number of volunteers and programs is that much more manageable.

Smaller organizations are usually local – so if you donate to them, you can see that your dollars are going directly into the community.

However, that said. Our society NEEDS both types of charities. We need large charities who can carry a big stick to lobby government, to create awareness about a health risk or an environmental issue. Picture the next earthquake or tsunami without the Red Cross for example – how many small charities would you need to do the same? How many small charities would be ready to operate immediately?

We need small charities to help locally with individual needs and day-to-day strife and to give a voice to little known conditions or issues.

Also remember too that big charities used to be small charities. And every charity, regardless of size has the potential to grow.