What influences you to donate , the desire to help or the ethnicity of the needy

I don't think the color of the persons skin should make one bit of difference. No child deserves to go hungry in my opinion, but with that said none of us are wealthy enough to save the world. I'm sorry that children from other countries are hungry, but I'm also sorry people right here in our country are hungry as well and I will help our own first, that's just my opinion suspenseful.

Being very community minded, I tend to give to those charities that meet the needs of my community and who I believe are actually doing something for the community. There is, however, one such organisation I am not giving to these days as they refused to help me and my girls when we were in crisis last year.

1. There are some people who are known to me, who are elders and they spare their valuable time for social work, helping masses with their services. They need soem financial help,material help and I contribute financially and by providing materials. 2. There are some schools with which I associate and help them in conducting coaching clasess in non-curricular works like hobbies. To run clubs and association for young people to incculcate the usefulness of hobbies. I contribute materials required to develop the hobbies. 3. There are some known friends who are constantly donating some portion of their earnings for a cause, I participate by giving some financial help. 4. Lastly, I do get some free materials in my business which has intrinsic value for some down trodden people like pencils, note books and other stationery items. I just give them once a year, after pooling all those freebies, which the recipients cannot get elsewhere. Here no racisim, no discrimination, it is just the need of the person/persons and availability of such materials with me is the sole criteria for donation.

I donate primarily to Oxfam and Save The Children. Their work is international and spans many countries although of course a great deal of it takes place in Africa. I've been to Africa and seen some of the poverty first hand so I'm glad of that. However my wish to donate is not motivated by a persons colour. I just can't bear the thought of children dying of hunger, lack of clean water and preventable disease.

I am happy to donate to anyone who can show me that no one working for the charity organisation is taking a wage out of my donation, I have yet to find one blessed be

I agree the color of the child shouldn't matter. I always wonder why we the public are being asked to help children miles and miles away when we can't even help the kids here in North America.

I don't give to charities ,i am a member of a service organisation and do lots of work raising money to give to different organisations.What i like about the service club i am in is that we all pay fees and this covers all expenses so 100%of money raised goes to the organisations we decide to give it too be it in our country, international or in our local community .

We are getting ready to decide what charity to give to next year. We donate money directly from my husband's check before we ever see it. It goes to the same place for a year, and then in November or the first part of December, we decide who it will be the following year. We also donate to a couple of animal charities, because we are both big animal people. Besides that, we only donate locally. We participate in most fundraisers for the local humane society, and we donate to the food banks. That's all we can afford to do. And we feel that it's best to help people locally anyway.

The last few years I haven't donated. I do donate some things to thrifty store but money wise I'm keeping a tight budget just in case. I used to donate to MSF and any animal protection organization. MSF people are sent all over the world, so I know that any one needs help all over the world will get help. I myself am Asian and came from a poor country. I know how it feels to be poor and forgotten, there is no way I will make others feel that way.

I pay absolutely no attention to the ethnicity of the needy, a person in need is a person in need, PERIOD! I give to local fundraisers, such as for someone who needs help for cancer treatments or other medical problems and I always give a little to the Salvation Army when they have their drives. Also, I give canned goods and other non-perishable food items to our local food drives during the hoidays and also when the NALC has their annual food drive every spring. It does bother me that there are so many charities for those in foreign countries when there are also many in need right here in the US. I also like to check if a charity has a large "administration cost" instead of giving most of the donations directly to those in need. I'm ashamed to admit I haven't attended church for years, but I still sometimes send my church a donation. Lately, things have been tough so I haven't had as much to give as I'd like to but hopefully things will get better and I can help more once again. Great topic! Annie

The desire to help the less fortunate is what drives me to donate but, unfortunately, we are pretty close to being the less fortunate ourselves so can't donate. Once in a while if I have change in my pocket, I'll put it in a jar for animals, cancer patients, whatever the stores are collecting for at the time. When my daughter's school has the salvation army barrels up, I'll send some canned/dry goods to school for her to donate and I save all the campbell labels/box tops for her school as well.

I donate time through my church and help cook dinner on Monday nights for the homeless shelter. I either go home after cooking if too many people are there or I go to the shelter as well and help serve the people who come to eat and bible study. As for your question, I don't think that race should influence the recipients donation or to which charity they choose to donate too. I like to know that anything I donate or put my efforts into will benefit the community at large regardless of race.

i donate to the church as well. & i dontate to the sheltters with clothing and can goods and etc..i know there are lots of people out there who dc to help out,i feel wat if i was in the place these people are i would want help too.

Ive actually only donated a few times in my life. and i dod apply to donate to childrens international.. they have a list you can choose from. or you can choose the list were they give you a child who is in most need...of course that what i put for a child in most need.. i got a child from india..