2024 Charitable Giving Guide

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Welcome to the 2024 Charitable Giving Guide!

I’m wicked excited for this year’s edition of the Charitable Giving Guide.

Not just because we’re actually getting it out before on Giving Tuesday, and not just because we have a great primer for how to give (more on that below), but because the What Can I Do? app makes the whole process so much easier.

Let’s do this.

Step one: Please take a few minutes to read our treatise, How to Give. It’s a piece I revisit every year as a core pillar of Compound Action — and your own Action Potential.

Step two: Create your What Can I Do? profile with your Important ID (the email you subscribe to these newsletters with!).

The entire process takes less than a minute. Grab your phone and ID and you’re ready to knock it out.

I’ll wait.

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Done? Great.

Once your profile is fully operational, you can use the list below in two ways:

  1. One-click suggestions to your favorites for later (see GIF!)

  2. Get straight to donating

— or some combo of both!

Btw: Want to add this list to your collection of 40000 open tabs? The link’s below, have at it. #RIP to your RAM!

Last note: The organizations below are reviewed by our team and presented in no particular order. Here we go!

— Quinn

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🎗️ 2024 IMPORTANT CHARITABLE GIVING GUIDE 🎗️

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- Selections with an * are 501(c)(4) nonprofit organizations and/or not tax-deductible

- Selections with a 🌎 operate outside the US

🌎 Give Directly - send money (and give agency) directly to the world’s poorest households.

Feeding America - a nationwide network of food banks, food pantries and community-based organizations in the United States working to create a future where no one is hungry. It’s that time of year.

DonorsChoose - connects teachers in high-need communities with donors who want to help. Few things bring me more joy than donating through DC.

Urban Ocean Lab - longtime friend of the pod Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and her team cultivate rigorous, creative, equitable, and practical climate and ocean policies for the future of coastal cities

The 19th - an independent, nonprofit newsroom reporting at the intersection of gender, politics, and policy. Time to bolster up.

*Environmental Voter Project - identifies millions of non-voting environmentalists and turns them into consistent voters. They’ve done exceptional work the past few elections.

🌎 World Central Kitchen - provides meals in response to humanitarian, climate, and community crises, from Gaza to North Carolina.

The Trevor Project - provides 24/7 text/chat/call crisis support services to LGBTQ young people

🌎 Palestine Children’s Relief Fund - Get immediate and long term relief to families directly affected by the conflict in Gaza.

Lead Exposure Elimination Project - this group works with governments worldwide to implement lead paint regulations while providing technical assistance to help paint manufacturers switch to lead-free. Insane we’re still dealing with this.

The Markup - another award-winning nonprofit newsroom that investigates how powerful institutions are using technology to change our society. So, a lot.

ProPublica - (insert “and another one” DJ Khalid gif) this independent, nonprofit newsroom produces exceptional investigative journalism with moral force

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Civil Eats - a daily news source for critical thought about the American food system. They publish stories that shift the conversation around sustainable agriculture in an effort to build economically and socially just communities

Southern Environmental Law Center - defends the local environment in court, using the law to help move the U.S. South toward a more sustainable future. Will be more vital than ever, soon.

🌎 Against Malaria - protects people from malaria by funding nets and ensuring they’re distributed and used. Shares where the nets go, monitors and reports their use and impact. Maybe the most effective nonprofit on the planet

Cooperative Food Empowerment Directive - a QBPOC-led organization that partners with young folks of color from poor and working-class backgrounds to meet our communities’ needs through food and land co-ops

Undue Medical Debt (formerly RIP Medical Debt) - buys medical debt in bundles at a fraction of the original cost so that your $100 donated relieves $10,000 in medical debt

National Family Farm Coalition - Support family farmers, ranchers, and fishers by supporting policies that embody the principles of food sovereignty.

🌎 Doctors Without Borders - on the ground in 70+ countries providing urgently needed humanitarian aid in moments of crisis and conflict

Measles and Rubella Partnership - Donate to the Measles and Rubella Partnership to help prevent these terrible and WILDLY contagious childhood diseases.

Alex’s Lemonade Stand - dedicated to changing children's lives through impactful research, raising awareness and supporting families to help cure pediatric cancer. One of my longest-standing charitable destinations. Fuck cancer. Especially fuck kids cancer.

Room to Read - helps children from low-income communities develop literacy skills so they can thrive in school and life. Education compounds.

🌎 Project HOPE - on the ground in 20+ countries in Africa delivering comprehensive training programs (online and offline) for health workers on the frontlines

🌎 RELP - scaling up cheaper and faster renewable energy deployment in emerging economies

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🌎 Partners in Health - everyone deserves access to quality health care, regardless of where they were born. PIH combines social justice and medical work, empowering communities on a global scale

National Black Doulas Association - dedicated to connecting Black (BIPOC) birthing families with Black (BIPOC) Doulas across the nation

🌎 CAMFED - the goal? 5 million African girls educated by 2030. The lever? Reshape the educational system. Donate now to help them get there.

Capital B News - ANOTHER local-national nonprofit news organization — this one (featuring friend of the pod Adam Mahoney) centers Black voices, audience needs and experiences, and partners with the communities it serves

Earthjustice - the premier nonprofit public interest environmental law organization. Get ready.

🌎 Malala Fund - ignoring for a moment how we lost a Webby to Malala, her essential foundation supports the work of educators and advocates and helps bolster girls’ secondary education around the world

🌎 Water for South Sudan - over a million people - including hundreds of thousands of kids - die from contaminated water every year. Access to clean water and sanitation is a game changer for public health, and this org drills wells in remote villages.

Mutual Aid Disaster Relief - provides disaster relief based on the principles of solidarity, mutual aid, and autonomous direct action. An essential model going forward.

Grist - AND YES IT’S ANOTHER independent, nonprofit media outlet — this one’s dedicated to reporting on climate, climate justice and solutions.

Birth in Color - fights for reproductive justice and maternal health in the US by providing services that range from expert birth workers for pregnant families to racial bias training for healthcare professionals.

🌎 Farmers of Color Land Trust - Support efforts to advance land sovereignty through permanent and secure land tenure for Indigenous, Black, Latinx, and Asian farmers and land stewards.

Alright, about time to wrap up.

We can’t fit everything here, but that’s what WCID is for!

Looking for something specific to a US state? Open up our powerful filter and add your location!

Visit whatcanido.earth day or night to find hundreds more vetted charitable options across the US, and the world.

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