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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]900K

This year it was a few hundred dollars.

Not good, but we don't belong to a church, our alma maters are already rich, and we are really busy with little kids.  I am not sure how to go about giving more, so I just make the same donations to schools/NPR/public television that I did when I was a grad student. [/quote]
75K HHI poster here -- back when I actually had spare money, I decided that I would start with 1 percent of my income and divide that sum among a local charity, a national charity and an international charity. So, I did some research and decided that my local charity would be Academy of Hope, an adult literacy organization because DC has such a low adult literacy rate (http://www.aohdc.org/); my national charity was Fisher House ( http://www.fisherhouse.org/) which supports family of injured military, and my international charity was Doctors Without Borders.

Those issues -- literacy, family support, medical care to those in war zones -- were important to me, but something else may be important to you, of course. If you're interested in giving more, maybe just thinking about your priorities is one way to start, and then you can find who is doing good work in those areas. The local/national/international split worked for me. 
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