We have recently merged two households into one, so they last thing we need at this point is more physical possessions - we have no place to put them!
Rather than give us wedding
presents, we invite guests to donate $50 to one of the
following charities, and let us know which one. We
will post donors' names on this website under the charity
they chose, without mentioning the amount of donation.
We will be too busy to update the website after September
1st. Donations to all of these organization are
tax-deductable, but getting your tax receipt is between you
and the organization.
Deworm the World and Give
Directly are both recommended by GiveWell.org, which
selects only a handful of charities per year to
recommend. GiveWell values evidence-based
giving. While Charity Navigator penalizes
charities for doing research into whether their efforts are
actually meeting their goals (since that's a dreaded
"administrative expense"), GiveWell requires
charities to measure their accomplishments, and give
evidence for how much they're achieving.
A huge problem in the tropical third world is that many schoolchildren are infested with intestinal worms. You can build a school, provide a teacher, buy the child a school uniform, and they still won't go to school because they know they're too sick to learn anything. For less that a dollar per child, they can be easily vaccinated against these worms for a year.
Donors
Peter Marks & Philipa Bellemore
Maureen McCarthy & Martin Lerner
Robert Fischbach
Robert Wozniak
Bill Flannery
The free speech climate
on a lot of college campuses is very different than it was for
those of us who went to college in the early '80's. Many
schools have tiny "free speech zones" in an obscure corner of
the campus, and students demonstrating or handing out fliers
outside of these zones face disciplinary action. Also,
many schools have "speech codes" about which opinions may be
expressed and which may not. If the school takes public
funds, these things are illegal. FIRE provides legal help for
defending the first amendment rights of students on campus.
Donors
Tom & Brenda Pai
Benny Pollak
Give Directly
identifies impoverished families in Kenya living on less than $1
per person per day, and gives the elders of the family about
$1000 in cash. The organization follows up on how the family is
doing, and monitors whether the money is going to bribes,
alcohol, or tobacco (usually, it isn't) and how much the
circumstances of the family improve.
Donors
Lorraine Baptiste
Maureen McCarthy & Martin Lerner
Chris & Gene Halus
Rita Cohen
Many Native American reservations suffer from crushing
poverty and low levels of education, and college has gotten
ridiculously expensive. And, like, we took their land,
in fact in a lot of cases we did much worse than that.
Help a Native American kid get an education.
Donors
Maureen
McCarthy & Martin Lerner
Tom &
Brenda Pai
Judi Polson
Eva & Mohan Vedula
Doctors Without Borders goes to third world countries to give
needed medical care.
Donors
Joe & Helen Chapman
Rebecca Valentine
Theo Houssin
Melany Rosales & Raymond See
Allen Kleinman
Jayne Herrick
John Lakos & Elyse Deleski
Suzanne & Randy Shafritz
Maryann LaManna
The International Rescue Committee moves into third-world
crisis situations, giving humanitarian aid and disaster
relief.
Donors
Nawshin & Carsten Varming
Mitchell Lampert
Planned Parenthood provides women's reproductive health care, including contraception and abortion.
Donors
Anna Chapman
Sally Chapman
The ASPCA provides animal shelters and opposes animal
cruelty.
Donors
Pamela & Christopher Brown
Dorothy Lang
Laura Phillips & Fred Klemm
Melany Rosales & Raymond See
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