John, I also donate to the Fransiscan Children Hostipital. Never checked out their website though.

But I did a round up of charities doing special V-Day’s campaigns - there’s many ways to say I Love You with a gift to charity
http://beth.typepad.com/beths_blog/2008/02/the-many-ways-t.html

You’ve got to love the mating ring tones that support environmental groups.

Charities I love:
Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org
Doctors Without Borders http://www.msf.org
Oxfam America http://www.oxfamamerica.org
Partners In Health http://www.pih.org
Heifer International http://www.heifer.org

My favorite Boston charity is the Franciscan Hospital for Children, the accept donations on their site:
http://www.franciscanhospital.org

That said, I do like the idea of spreading the love to our communities and to the greater good, especially to the organizations we care about. But I see that sort of thing as in addition to.. not instead of. I mean, if I don’t have a cheesy heart card for my little girl, well… it won’t be pretty. (lol…)

Or “Chipin” at DougHaslam.com

Thanks!

http://ldpodcast.chipin.com/ma-chen-autism-school-in-china

Thanks for the opportunity to post this here, and I hope people will consider giving. At the end of the month, we’ll make our first wire to Ma Chen, and we’ll close out the whole campaign in 60 days. Any and all money goes directly to Ma Chen- I pay all transfer fees and costs!

Whitney

Here is a charity that my wife and I contribute to. It is the Boys and Girls Club of Brockton. They do not accept donations through their website (I am working with them to fix that).

Here is the link to the main site:
http://www.bgcbrockton.org/

And a link to the page with the donation info:
http://www.bgcbrockton.org/main.asp?id=3

Set up over a few days in Late December 2007 with the help of the American Cancer Society, it came into being after my friend Connie Reece learned that I not only had invasive breast cancer and had used frozen peas as an ice pack during my biopsy, but my mastectomy was scheduled the same week that I saw the surgeon.

This cancer was scary and it was fast. So that’s how Connie worked to set up the fund, with a widget provided by the ACS that whisks the online donation into their account without us needing to waste moments on counting dollars when we could be talking about cancer and spreading the word.

This week we received our first corporate donor when ooVoo selected the Frozen Pea Fund to benefit from “my ooVoo day with . .” based on the community focus of our effort. Lest you be misled though, our average contribution is very small time something like $30 average, in keeping with our grassroots beginning where participants were asked to donate five dollars each Friday, this number representing about the cost of two packs of frozen peas.

If you’re thinking of doing something simple that would make a huge difference I can guarantee that your gift through us will keep us encouraged to make the http://frozenpeafund.com the new kind of community sharing project that it can be,

A click to donate button is on the page to make it painless to reach out and share. Please know how much we appreciate your considering us.