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[quote=Anonymous]A lot of charities that sound great actually spend most of their money on fundraising or admin/exec. salaries.  A lot of the firemen and police charities that call your house asking for money are huge culprits.  Something like 3% of your donation actually goes to the cause and the other is spent on the telemarketing firms soliciting the donations and overhead.

A good website is charitynavigator.org and charitywatch - they will rate charities and also provide information about how much of the money is going to the actual cause (program expenses).

We give to Cystic Fibrosis, OAR (Organization for Autism Research) and Child Life.

Child Life Specialists are people in children's hospitals who talk to the kids, bring them games, crayons, toys, etc. to play with while they are in the hospital.  We've had a lot of firsthand experience with the specialists at Georgetown, Children's downtown, and CHOP.  They have all been amazing and they always seem to be able to find the right toy to distract our child.

If you call the hospital and ask to speak to a child life specialist, they will have a wish list of toys, games, video games, etc. that they need at any given time.  You can buy online from amazon and have shipped directly to whatever hospital you want, or you can give money as well.  I always feel good about giving to them b/cs I know what a difference it made for us when we were there and I also know that there is no overhead taken out of the toys that we give them.

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