Charitable donations

I live near our food bank and that’s the only place we’re giving to right now. The need is beyond anything we’ve ever seen; the line stretched five miles a few weeks ago in the middle of a freak hail storm and those people didn’t move because they needed food so bad.

I also donated the refund of theater tickets back to the arts center. I've given to our local food bank and our local Meals on Wheels program. Since I work for a non-profit I know the importance of giving locally so the dollars help my community instead of being diluted on the way from the major organization to the locals.

Friends are in Bolivia. They are on strict lockdown. (One person is allowed out to shop once per week. My friends walk approx 8 miles round trip with a week’s worth of groceries.) The poor there work today to buy food tomorrow. Even if they were able to stockpile food, they have no refrigeration. Me and my kids, along with I’m guessing many others, have been donating to them. They have a contact who is able to use the $ to buy and deliver food.

They said last week, “So far we have purchased food for over 500 people. We bought two weeks and deliver it one week at a time since they cannot store it. We have money for two more weeks on hand! We have also purchased food for various ministries to help the poor in their area! GOD IS AT WORK!”

I shared on Facebook. Awesomely one of my friends with an Etsy shop did a fundraiser and was able to raise a few hundred $ to send too!

Feeding San Diego. Most of our stimulus check went there.

We have donated to:

Food bank

Group providing supplies to homeless students

Another group that provides weekly grocery bag to families

A different charity to help food insecure families

Charity set up by one of the parents of a student in my class. Sending toys and activities to children in the hospital.

Our MD zoo that is #closedbutstillcaring for animals. A bench in memory of my daughter is there as is the penguin she named before she passed away.

We also typically do $25-$30 tips for any restaurant when we do takeout. (Just once a week to smaller independent restaurants we love)

I have a monthly donation going to our local food bank. I also donated to our local senior citizens group. I’ve donated to a couple of Go-Fund-Me’s for younger parents who have died of Coronavirus and left behind children. I also donated to the family of the security guard who was killed at the dollar store when he denied entrance to a woman who refused to wear a mask.

We divided most of our stimulus payment and my children were able to donate it to a charity of their individual choice. One was the local YMCA, one was to a local LGBTQ youth center/shelter, one was the National Center for Missing/Exploited Children, and the last was to the Humane Society.

Pretty much any organization that's feeding people (locally). A lot of it is actually grassroots efforts - small restaurants or groups of people delivering food to homebound seniors that set up GoFundMes to keep going. Also our homeless organization that partnered with the city to house people in hotels and bring food to the rooms.

Our local food bank and suicide prevention organization.

I’ve been making masks and trading them with my neighbors for food donations. I’ve taken 4 car loads to the local food pantry in the past few weeks.

Food bank

I donated to the food bank. My company is matching donations up to $1000.

We donated food/toiletries to a church food bank in our area. We also donated to our child's dance studio as she wasn't able to get a small business payment (whatever some small businesses get, I forget what it is called).