Do you donate to charity?

I give money to the This Star Won't Go Out organization (tswgo.org) the HP alliance (the hpalliance.org) and during December I give money to the project for Awesome event on Youtube which then gives the money to the 5 user selected most deserving charities.

The Project for Awesome event also brings awareness to countless other small and even local charities around the globe that you can donate to as well, it's really an amazing even where the community comes together for the greater good. I'm so proud to be part of the community that helped inspire the creation of this project and cause. The internet can be a good place.

For those wondering the This Star Won't Go Out organization is a very small charity in it's second year and helps to provide families of children with cancer afford the treatment they desperately need. It was founded by the parents of a young woman who died of cancer at the age of 16, Esther Grace Earl. You can learn more that their website tswgo.org. Right now they are only based out of the Boston area, but hopefully as they grow they will become a national and even international organization.


The Harry Potter Alliance (HP alliance) well, I'll just copy their mission statement here:
Mission Statement
"The Harry Potter Alliance (HPA) is a 501c3 nonprofit that takes an outside-of-the-box approach to civic engagement by using parallels from the Harry Potter books to educate and mobilize young people across the world toward issues of literacy, equality, and human rights. Our mission is to empower our members to act like the heroes that they love by acting for a better world. By bringing together fans of blockbuster books, TV shows, movies, and YouTube celebrities we are harnessing the power of popular culture toward making our world a better place. Our goal is to make civic engagement exciting by channeling the entertainment-saturated facets of our culture toward mobilization for deep and lasting social change."