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sp6 lemmy.world sp6@lemmy.world
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Steve communick.news Steve@communick.news
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Local news
Servo
Ladybird

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skrlet13 feddit.cl skrlet13@feddit.cl
Joined: 2023-06-12
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I've donated to Betterbird, FreeFileSync, Ardour and hashtag mutualAid

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Norin lemmy.world Norin@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-08-31
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My local animal shelter.
They brought me my best friend.

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HubertManne piefed.social HubertManne@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-03-13
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well given im somewhat of a charity case myself atm. none. Even when doing better the math on retirement has never came out in the black so while I am at rediculous levels of not spending now its been a long time since I could casually spend. I mean like going out was a monthly thing at most and even then had to not be to pricey.

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AskewLord piefed.social AskewLord@piefed.social
Joined: 2026-01-16
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I don't anymore. Too many of them are corrupt.

I volunteer to my local community 10 hours a month on average. Giving your labor and time is a lot more rewarding than giving money to some abstract charity.

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ThePowerOfGeek lemmy.world ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-11
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Local food bank, local SPCA chapter, Habitat for Humanity, and sometimes to Public Radio. But I should donate more often.

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whelk retrolemmy.com whelk@retrolemmy.com
Joined: 2025-06-04
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Our small library has a collection of donated food and other basic necessities at the front for those who need it, always felt pretty good about that one. Libraries are awesome

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anon6789 lemmy.world anon6789@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-02
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I don't anymore. Too many of them are corrupt. I volunteer to my local community 10 hours a month on average. Giving your labor and time is a lot more rewarding than giving money to some abstract charity.

I'm much the same. I volunteer at the wildlife rescue here, so I see the work being done and know the money is going to a good place. If they need something for us to get things done, I chip in. It's also very rewarding, a lot of fun, and I get to meet great people and learn cool things.

I'd like to do something for the poor or homeless too, but I haven't found the right opportunity yet, plus I need to address some personal health stuff before taking on more responsibility.

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_spiffy piefed.ca _spiffy@piefed.ca
Joined: 2025-09-02
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I've donated to endeavourOS and Signal. I also participate in Extra Life every year.

I am thinking about donating to jellyfin and calibre-web-automated next!

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cymbal_king lemmy.world cymbal_king@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-06
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Coalition for Rainforest Nations They operate globally with indigenous and local communities to do everything possible to protect rainforests and reforest areas. The donations really stretch far because they predominantly work in low income areas

Coral Reef Alliance similar to the Coalition for Rainforests, but for coral reefs.

ProPublica No paywall investigative news organization that has really hard hitting reporting that holds polluters accountable by government agencies

World Wildlife Foundation great work with preserving biodiversity and raising awareness of nature with the public. It's hard to care about something if you don't know about it

Union of Concerned Scientists A political advocacy org defending science, and opposing the climate crisis and nuclear weapons

Lahaina Community Land Trust supporting Native Hawaiian victims of the Lahaina fire and trying to prevent their land from being bought up by private equity and billionaires

Local food bank, local green space advocates, and local housing support orgs

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cymbal_king lemmy.world cymbal_king@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-06
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I don't anymore. Too many of them are corrupt. I volunteer to my local community 10 hours a month on average. Giving your labor and time is a lot more rewarding than giving money to some abstract charity.

Charity Navigator is a handy website to vet charities

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paydequeso piefed.social uuj8za@piefed.social
Joined: 2026-03-17
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GNOME, Guix, LogSeq, Signal, Codeberg

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backalleycoyote lemmy.today backalleycoyote@lemmy.today
Joined: 2026-03-01
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My two big ones that get money and my time are a couple of local dog rescues and prison re-entry group that helps the recently paroled. I also give to the local non-religious food bank, our independent radio station, an LGBTQ and AIDs awareness group, a wolf protection group, and a keep our river/trails clean org. I donate my secondhand items to a thrift shop that raises money for low cost spay/neuter services.

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YiddishMcSquidish lemmy.today YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today
Joined: 2025-03-10
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Local food bank, local SPCA chapter, Habitat for Humanity, and sometimes to Public Radio. But I should donate more often.

Public radio sustainers unite! Love me some Terry Gross!

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skooma_king piefed.social skooma_king@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-06-29
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Doctors Without Borders, EFF, ACLU, and Surfrider Foundation on a monthly basis.

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ProfessorScience lemmy.world ProfessorScience@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-12
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Doctors Without Borders and the ACLU.

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Curious_Canid piefed.ca Curious_Canid@piefed.ca
Joined: 2025-06-07
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My main charities are the Humane Society, the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, my local church (which supports all kinds of local needs), a local food bank, and the ACLU. I also donate to various organizations that do serious journalism, including NPR, PBS, ProPublica, Common Dreams, and the Guardian. And finally, I always try to donate to projects that produce things I use, like Fedican, PieFed, Voyager, Signal, Meshtastic firmware and Android app, and Thunderbird. Most of the donations are small, but I do what I can.

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scytale piefed.zip scytale@piefed.zip
Joined: 2025-07-16
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I donate to Signal from time to time.

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commiehimbo lemmy.world voaw@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-03-20
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CodePink, local library, local food bank, National Network of Abortion Funds, Trevor Project, Young Center for Immigrant Children, Doctors Without Borders, left-wing political parties/orgs (Green Party, PSL, FRSO, Peace & Freedom Party)

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cultchic fedinsfw.app cultchic@fedinsfw.app
Joined: 2026-02-20
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I donate to wikimedia each year.

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xSikes feddit.online xSikes@feddit.online
Joined: 2026-01-29
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I am an election poll worker and do the MS and Alzheimer’s walks. Used to do videos for the VA.

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fiendishplan lemmy.world fiendishplan@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-22
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Signal

Anti-slavery International

Wikipedia

Electronic Frontier Foundation

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AskewLord piefed.social AskewLord@piefed.social
Joined: 2026-01-16
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I'm much the same. I volunteer at the wildlife rescue here, so I see the work being done and know the money is going to a good place. If they need something for us to get things done, I chip in. It's also very rewarding, a lot of fun, and I get to meet great people and learn cool things. I'd like to do something for the poor or homeless too, but I haven't found the right opportunity yet, plus I...

You can't do anything for them. The homeless problem is a black hole, among other social problems. The need is infinite.

The best thing you can do for the homeless is vote for and promote social policies that would lead to systematic change. Fight your anti-homeless shelter neighbors, anti-housing, anti-everything neighbors, for example.

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anon6789 lemmy.world anon6789@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-02
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You can't do anything for them. The homeless problem is a black hole, among other social problems. The need is infinite. The best thing you can do for the homeless is vote for and promote social policies that would lead to systematic change. Fight your anti-homeless shelter neighbors, anti-housing, anti-everything neighbors, for example.

Food Not Bombs is what I had been looking at, but the local-ish group seemed inactive. I just looked it up again though and they posted some updates about how they've been reorganizing. I feel feeding people is something positive, pretty much regardless of actual need. Everyone needs to eat. I think it's the Sikhs that do a community kitchen, and I always thought that was very inspiring. They operate in a place with a high immigrant population and I saw in their updates a lot about supporting the unrecognized indigenous people of the area too, which seemed very cool.

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workerONE lemmy.world workerONE@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-11
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Unicef

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blarth thelemmy.club blarth@thelemmy.club
Joined: 2024-03-16
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Signal Anti-slavery International Wikipedia Electronic Frontier Foundation

🙏

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ClusterBomb lemmy.blahaj.zone ClusterBomb@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2023-10-19
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In the past year, I've donated to Moodist (one shot, maybe it was the year before though. Not sure.), Monocles (one shot) Zen Browser (monthly). I also donate each end of year to various association for around 300€ : against violence to women (to shelter them), for animals (antispecieist associations), anti-advertising, LGBTQ+ associations and human right associations. These are mostly french associations except "La Ligue des Droits de l'Homme" I think.

I donate to homeless people too, though I do it less recently because I try to think more about my future... and I watch free roller derby games 3 times a year in my city. It is free but they take money if we want, so I give a little (like most people I believe).

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whotookkarl lemmy.dbzer0.com whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2025-07-12
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Ffrf, doctors without borders, local food banks and libraries mostly

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