Hello my fellow moral minority-ers,
I hate to chime in late.  By the way, greetings and thanks for letting 
my be a voyeur to your email group.  I found a handy web guide to 
charities, which includes the ability to rank them (rankings are based 
on a number of different criteria, most of which appear to be about 
administrative efficiency (e.g. how much of your money is actually spent 
on the charities goals)).  Here is the website that I found after 
searching the site for the national resource defense council (NRDC), one 
of the environmental charities I contribute to.
http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm/bay/search.summary/orgid/420...
In additional to being ranked well, one of their head lawyers is Robert 
Kennedy Jr., whom I've heard talk on NPR a couple of times and have been 
quite impressed with.
I also think donating to a local land trust can be a good way to give 
away some of that extra money that we're getting back thanks to all 
those handy tax cuts. They identify land for sale in unique or sensitive 
wilderness areas and purchase them, or convince land owners to restrict 
the type of development that can take place on their land.

Anyhow, good reading.

Andrew


Daniel Reeves wrote:

>Mekayla and her mom know people in Colorado who feel this is very much
>worth fighting for (defending against Bush's proposed repeal of the
>roadless area conservation rule, for those just tuning in).  I don't have
>time to understand all the implications now myself but I'm thinking of
>just donating some money to the Sierra Club who I trust to do the right
>thing and fight the right fights (Cam/Mekayla/Dad, do you also feel they
>are trustworthy in that respect?  I know they're very well respected and
>have been around since 1892).
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>There's also the Wilderness Society (wilderness.org) which I haven't
>looked into enough.
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>* * Ok, just joined the Sierra Club at the "supporting" level.
>The $25 level is actually enough to get a bunch of cool stuff.
>Recommended!
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>Danny
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>>>Cam, do you know about the Roadless Area Conservation Rule?	(try googling
>>>it)	The public comment period has been extended till next week and I'm
>>>trying to decide if and how hard this is worth fighting for.  What's a
>>>reputable environmental group that you would recommend donating to that
>>>will fight for our interests on this?
>>>Danny
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