give 43 non-trivial charitable gifts

Another replenishing of the Kiva account.

Just replenished my Kiva credit with a fresh donation!

Not a real charity (sadly). Went on a vacation last month with 3 friends, 2 of whom are stably employed corporate types and one of whom is a starving artist. I donated miles and $ so that the latter could come along.

Someone I really respect passed away recently after living a long, full life. I made a donation to their suggested cause, which really will help carry on the world-changing work this person did.

Also, I am incredibly ashamed that I haven’t donated in almost a year—I had been donating quarterly before that. Yikes! I’ll try to make monthly gifts until I catch up.

I was volunteering alongside some big shots, I made a boo-boo, I’m paying for it because the alternative is to screw over someone with even less money than me.

My husband and I had an actual fight over whether I should pay for it out of pocket. We don’t share (all of) our money, so it wasn’t like the decision affected him; it was just the principle of the thing. But what can I say? I messed up, and the options are (1) make myself a giant pain in the asses of important people, (2) stiff someone with less clout, or (3) pony up.

Anyway, I told him I’d at least count it as my “charity” for the quarter. And I think we’re done arguing. We never argue. Weird.

A student group I was involved in during college is working on a very ambitious project. I kicked them some cash.

I contributed to RNF’s effort last year, and I’m happy to contribute to wren’s this year. If you’d like to do the same, you know what to do

Finally got a chance to do this! Yippee!

Going back through these posts, I see that I meant to donate to a local gay rights organization that one of the faculty members in my cohort is involved in. I’ll put a reminder in my calendar for late August.

Spreading the charity around to different organizations has put me on more junk mail lists than I can shake a stick at, so I’m narrowing this down to an organization I’ve already donated to. And of those, no one sends me better junk mail than Heifer International. So many cute animals!

Right now, I’m desperately trying to get my IRA contribution done by April 15, and after that I need to start saving up for replacing my beat-up car and laptop, not to mention a house…yi. Uh, ok, let’s try this:

5/15: Donate to Heifer unless financial situation has exploded in some way.

I even put it in my calendar :)

I donated to the fund that was set up to help with her expenses.