I didnt want to take over the other thread about charitable giving, so here is a new one.
I've been around many decades and have changed my giving habits, some for specific reasons. I stopped giving to many organizations I see mentioned in that other thread.
Planned Parenthood-- for many years I gave because I liked their work of the Guttmacher Institute. Then they started to call me with stupd pitches, always tied to the evils of George Bush. I became tired of that, told them them that they needed to stop that pitch when they called me. They did not. I stopped giving. Being a one trick pony, they called again last month soon after the election of Trump and used that scaremongering tactic. Nope, didn't convince me. To this day I cannot understand why the ask pitch cant be targeted to me, personally, since I told they why I donated. Surely their technology would support that customization.
Humane Society-i havent given to the Humane Society of Missouri for decades because they have an obscenely large endowment, one of the largest in the biz. And they are a kill shelter that does not release their kill numbers. I understand the need to have a kill shelter, but I wont support lack of transparency. Some of this lack of transparency gave rise to the creation of smaller rescue organizations decades ago. Now everyone and his brother has a rescue org, and that is good and bad because anyone can set up a 501c3, pay themselves a nce little salary, and sell dogs as "rescues."
Stray Rescue of St. Louis started in my neighborhood as a small org in Randy's basement, and now they are a major player and well, I give to smaller rescue orgs, they too have become too big and I hear too much about where the money may be going.
I personally know all of the principles of the rescue organizations Ive given to in recent years, and none of them make any money on the deal, and the dogs are truly in need.
Food Bank-while I never donated real money to one of these but I would give food to the Boy Scouts when they make their drive. Not a big supporter, but I did a small bit. But I no longer donate to food banks at all because I found a dumpster fill of food from the food bank behind a house we own. A resident on the street had dump d it, more than 100 cans and packages. Includ Ng Organic orange joice. Yeah, I cant afford that. I am a regular dumpster diver and find all sorts of interesting thngs.