Where do you give?

To help the tsunami victims?

Hugh Hewitt recommends World Vision Online. I guess the natural choice is the Red Cross, but I don't want my money funding stress-tests at Gitmo because of the color of the food trays in the cafeteria. I suppose the organization compartmentalizes pretty well and would direct Asian tsunami relief money to the cause.

I don't know. I'll give some dough, but I have to ask where. I am very distrustful of all these organizations. (By the way, anybody who recommends the UN will be banned for life...)

UPDATE: Glenn sez:

A LOT OF READERS complain that the Amazon tsunami donation page sends money to the Red Cross. But a lot of their complaints are aimed at the ICRC -- the International Committee of the Red Cross -- and not the American Red Cross, a different organization, and the one that's actually getting the money. I donated to them, but if you're uncomfortable, there are lots of places you can give money to. What interested me most about the Amazon phenomenon was how quickly and dramatically it worked, raising lots of money without a lot of overhead.

(I was one of those ankle-biting readers, by the way. This is as close as I will get to an Instalanche -- which is good as I am in enough trouble with my hosting company.)

And yes, I gave there. Like the Jerry Lewis telethon when I was a kid, it is fun to see the total go up and feel some ownership. With my small contribution, the Amazon group is now almost ten times the contribution of France. Stingyu-ass Americans, indeed!

Posted by jk at December 28, 2004 10:12 AM