buffdolls:

malicemanaged:

mahjling:

princeackerman:

meatswitch:

nunyabizni:

webofgoodnews:

For your faith in humanity.

Good post

I’m torn on this kind of post. Because while I love it when people do stuff for the homeless, it kind of seems like they’re doing it for themselves. True charity is anonymous.

Fuck that. Charity is charity. If you’re starving on the street you’re not gonna give two fucks if you’re asked for a selfie after a guy gives you $50 and a homemade lunch.
I do charitable shit all the time but I’m too scared to talk about it because people like you call it humblebragging and stuff.
Brag about it, even if you’re only doing good things to get attention you’re still helping people holy shit

Talking about good things you’ve done encourages others to do good things. Humans are a social species, and no matter how much people want to stand out and be unique, there will always be that bit of encouragement to be had in what other people are doing. By spreading around that people are doing something kind, or that you’re doing something kind, it jumpstarts the idea in others’ minds that ‘Oh, hey, I could also do something like this!’

People brag about being douchebags all the time. It’s nice to see people bragging about the opposite.

Exactly! And also, hey, maybe sometimes it’s just nice to see/read/hear about others being decent people even if you can’t join them in doing good things for whatever reason, since all the bad shit is so quick get around. Makes my day just a little bit brighter.

Its a misunderstanding that anonymous means the donors don’t want to take credit because of their selflessness and whatever. Anonymous donors don’t want you to know who they are because then they might be inundated with requests from other charities and so on. Anonymous donors remain anonymous sometimes because of potential weirdness and backlash. For instance, if you hypothetically went into a local school and paid off everyone’s lunch balance, you’d want to remain anonymous so that if a parent decided to be offended by that gift, they couldn’t call YOU and bitch you out. They can just fuss at the school and the school can say, simply, “It was an anonymous gift.”

This is wonderful charity all around.

niakantorka:

offending-the-offended:

imaginarycircus:

sofia-ciel:

alexithymia42:

blockmind:

hello-missdolly:

beanmom:

nospockdasgay:

redbloodedamerica:

mallninjacode:

pual1010:

brownglucose:

stunningpicture:

So proud of my mother for doing her own research after I sent her that meme. A sign she hung in her car window.

Stay woke

Is this true?

Not only is it true, it gets worse. The Susan G Komen For The Cure Foundation has actually successfully sued “competing” charities, because (paraphrasing) their “message or branding was infringing.”

You read that correctly: they took money that people had donated to cure cancer, and hired attorneys with it, to sue ANOTHER group of people trying to find a cure for cancer, who, in turn, had to us their donated money to hire their own legal counsel to defend themselves.

Yeah signal boost because not enough people know about this and seriously FUCK SUSAN G. KOMEN THEY ARE THE ACTUAL WORST

Some links…

http://thinkbeforeyoupink.org/

http://www.somethingawful.com/feature-articles/for-the-cure/

http://thestir.cafemom.com/in_the_news/132728/susan_g_komen_foundation_has

(reblogged in honor of my mother, who died of breast cancer, 11/13/97)

Reblog every time I see it. Roughly once a month.

Also please never forget the pink fracking drill bit

that’s right
fracking
you know, a process using chemicals known to cause cancer that leech into the water supply

http://www.triplepundit.com/2014/10/baker-hughes-fights-breast-cancer-pink-fracking-drill-bits/

http://www.nbcnews.com/health/cancer/pink-drill-bits-bring-complaints-komen-tie-fracking-n223166

It’s that time of year again, please remember Komen is the actual worst

Komen For The Cure is pretty much awful.

My mother died in 1996 from breast cancer. Most cancer charities are scams, in that people throw fancy parties and get rich off them and very little money goes into research or support for patients. Here are some vetted cancer charities that get good scores on Charity Navigator and pay medical expenses or fund research:

Breast Cancer Research Foundation

Cancer Research Institute

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

63 four star rated cancer charities on charity navigator

Signal boosting this

If you want to donate money to cancer research, donate to your country’s cancer research institute/center.
For example the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in the U.S. or German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ). They’re mainly funded by their governments and to a lesser extent by donations.

Not that all charity organizations are rotten apples like Komen seems to be, but better safe than sorry.

100slytherin:

goldstarprivilege:

appropriately-inappropriate:

wirstdate:

liefplus:

if u weren’t aware of salvation army’s homophobia, its prety hardcore

a guy in a salvos truck yelled at me and my gf while we were kissing today so I was thinking of this

Do you know, when I was in high-school I went to the mall near my house with my girlfriend to do some Christmas shopping.

We were there, sixteen year old me and seventeen year old her, holding hands and window-shopping, minding our own business.

This Salvation Army shitheel gets aggro about it in the middle of the mall and I’m there totally flabbergasted cause like, it’s christmas

Only, 16!Tabi had even less composure than 26!Tabi, so I lost my fucking mind on her.

Thing is: when I’m really angry, I don’t rage, I go all cold and apparently that freaks people out, because I could see my gf backing up and the lady getting tense and then I realized that anger doesn’t solve problems.

So instead, I started wailing.

Picture this: 5’4, tiny, blonde haired high school girl with her little violin on her back and pearls in her ears just as PTA-approved as could be, full on sobbing in the hallway.

Just, sobbing like my dog’s been shot.

Now my gf’s like, “oh fuck” and the lady’s like “oh fuuuuck!” and I’m here, head thrown back, tears down my cheeks and in that shrill, distressed, /loud/ voice, “WHY WOULD YOU B-b-be so MEAN?! It’s CHRISTMAS!”

And the lady’s like “please stop Oh fuck” because now we have a crowd, and this Molly Weasley of a woman putters over, “what’s the matter, dear?”

And mall security’s coming and this bell ringer is looking very uncomfortable so I just look at this matronly ellen-watching suburban housewife lady, eyes wide and wet and my lip wobbling.

“I was, she s-said, s-s-she said I was going to HELL!”

And I burst right back into tears.

Maaaaaaaan, they didn’t even stick around to ask why she’d said it. Soon as I said it, Mall po-po bounced her like a fucking pogo stick.

We get outside and my girlfriend’s like “that is the most Slytherin thing I have ever seen anyone do.”

It was four years before I saw the Army back in that mall.

that is beautiful

Holiday reminder: don’t let anyone get away with trying to make you feel bad about yourself.

blessedharlot:

the-dark-sea:

strangenewclassrooms:

freemindfreebody:

usbdongle:

golbatsforequality:

Equality Golbat: “When you donate hair to Locks of Love, there is an 80% chance it will wind up in the garbage.”

I can get similar odds by literally throwing my hair at a garbage can.

Statistically, a charity that uses less than two thirds of its donation money for its central mission is in the bottom 10% of charities, in terms of efficiency and fiscal responsibility. Locks of Love uses less than one third of the hair they receive. (and I’m pretty sure they aren’t using the hair to buy TV spots.)

I should also mention that they actually don’t give people hair. They sell it. What good is a charity that doesn’t give free things to people in need? That’s not a charity. That’s a for-profit business.

I recommend Pantene Beautiful Lengths.

–Nidoqueen

[here’s] a reliable source on Forbes.com 

Do not give them your precious locks!

Wigs for kids is also great. When I donated I went through them because they were the only group that would accept donations of just 8” (and hair that was dyed.) Either way, don’t do locks of love.

Spread the word, because people still think Locks of Love is THE hair charity, when in reality, they rather suck.

Wigs for kids is who i went with when i donated. I liked them.

twee-lil-lass:

chainsxwsmile:

Reminder that Lush is giving 100% of proceeds to shark conservation when you buy hand soap or a charity pot! There’s also a petition to end global shark finning so I need anyone who can get over to a Lush store to go there and sign the petition! So far, my entire close family of six has signed but we still need more signatures!

that’s how you fucking do charity

subbieblackgrl:

squirrellol:

Mason, the hero that Philly deserves
Click here for more funny pictures by Mr. Squirrel

This gave me a much-needed smile.