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Where to Donate

As I donated another small amount today, I had an interesting thought. What is the right amount to donate? I recently donated to the Jimmy V Foundation for Cancer Research. Personally, I believe it is a better group to donate to; however, I fully support the 1 Second Film and other art projects. I also plan on donating more to the 1SF before the project is complete.

So, my question to anyone who may read this is how do YOU decide how much to donate and who to give it to? There are many "worthy" charities working to find cures for countless diseases. There are other causes, such as this, that I also feel are worthy. There are websites I frequent that run exclusively on donations. Unfortunately, I cannot give everything I have to each of them. What do you do? How do you do it? Most importantly, why do you do it?

Feel free to send me an email, as I would love to hear from anyone one the subject.

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Submitted by nirvan on July 25, 2008 - 2:18am.

This is a really interesting question.

I think that there is an art to philanthropy, and people who do it full time have to weigh a lot of factors.

When I first met Ben Goldhirsh several years ago, I asked him for a lot of money to help build this project quickly. Ben gets asked for money every day, and most of the time he has to say no. He didn't give me a flat rejection, instead he asked me a question.

Ben asked me what I would do if he put $50K on the table and said he could either give the money to me for The 1 Second Film project or he could give it to a bunch of starving children in Africa. Of course, I told him to give it to the children. Which he essentially has done via his work with the Millenium Promise Foundation.

However, it is also important to recognize early stage ideas with the potential to innovate and grow into something that can do a lot of good. Just like start-ups, many non-profit ideas need support before they can fully materialize. That's how I see this project.

And I really appreciate it when supporters like you give a little more as you see how this is growing.

Thanks.

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