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The Best Charities for You

The Best Charities for You

Take charge of your giving

No one should tell you which charities to donate to.

It’s your money. It’s your right to dedicate it to the work that matters most to you. It’s your life.

  “We make a living by what we get, but make a life by what we give.” – Winston Churchill

Life is too short to donate your hard-earned dollars to . . .

  • Weak charities that waste your money (900,000+ charities perform below average).
  • Charities that focus on things that don’t matter to you (99% of charities don’t focus on your top cause).

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    A new way to think about your giving

    The Best Charities for You helps you choose charities based on your personal values, experiences and wishes. The best charities for you combine four elements,

    • strong charities,
    • focused on your top causes,
    • working in your top locations, and
    • passing your screen tests.

    Charity rating services are not the answer

    They shouldn’t dictate your decisions. The Best Charities for You tells you how to use charity rating services like Charity Navigator (charitynavigator.org), CharityWatch (charitywatch.org) and GuideStar / Candid (guidestar.org).

    Don’t get overwhelmed by charities and causes

    We’re exposed, these days, to an unending stream of atrocities and injustice – each of which might have a legitimate claim on our time and our charitable donations, but which in the aggregate are more than any one human could ever effectively address. (Worse, the logic of the attention economy obliges campaigners to present whatever crisis they’re addressing as uniquely urgent. No modern fundraising organization would dream of describing its cause as the fourth- or fifth-most important of the day). – Four Thousand Weeks – Time Management for Mortals, Oliver Burkeman

    The Best Charities for You shows you the way

    This straight-forward and concise guide shows you how to

    • focus your giving on what matters to you,
    • evaluate charities and their programs, and
    • build your powerful legacy of good.

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    Pricing: $9.99 paperback — $6.99 Kindle

    Every giving circle should have this book

    Share the work and develop your focus, decide on location, do solid screening, and find the best charities.

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    What they’re saying:

    Make your giving count!

    Ed Long’s brief on the topic of responsible and effective giving is THE read for anyone longing to make meaningful charitable gifts. At 65 pages, the book is packed with advice and simple suggestions to make your giving wiser, appropriate and impactful.  — Amazon (5 Stars): Remote Shopper in the Sierras

    How to be generous and smart about it

    I’m not the only one inundated with requests for help from nonprofits. I want to be generous, but I want to make sure my money goes to organizations that are accomplishing meaningful work. This book helped me separate the wheat from the chaff. Well worth it!  — Amazon (5 Stars): SJ in Vermont

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    Free Resources

    The following resources supplement The Best Charities for You.

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