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I'm on the board of a charity and help them with events and such. Very satisfying and rewarding.

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For a decade or so, I have been helping in my local food bank, serving food to homeless and poor people. Very soothing from my daily troubles and very rewarding.

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I've given a hand to various organizations since I moved here, as my schedule allows. It's a good use of downtime in between shifts when you don't really have time to go home and it was a great way to practice my French when I was still fresh off the plane.
These days I'm mostly helping out with giving blankets and warm clothing to the homeless. It's getting incredibly cold and I can't imagine sleeping outside in this weather. As there are simply not enough shelter spaces, the city hall usually get the bus company to help create temporary shelters when the temperature goes below freezing but even that is not enough.

Sometimes.

Got a great local community church where I can donate time to help in the food pantry, the kitchen for our once a week community meal (food is prepared and served by a different church each week), and they have weekend work parties, where you spend a few hours in groups of 3 after church service, to help out a local who needs their yard cleaned up a bit, or something similar.

I'm not really into any of their religions, but i can sit respectively and listen to their pastors words, and simply enjoy the community and fellowship.

Too many get turned off from church, because they're not interested in religion. But our more recent generations simply arent used to using the church as one of the hubs of the community. But there's lots of fun and joy to be had, if you simply lend a hand.

Thx for the reminder for all of us, to give a little when we can. I for one have no extra funds, but i do have time and abiliy.

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I support volunteers who treat and help wounded birds

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My family has given to quite a few people in my lifetime. One person had a hungry family, so we gave from our pantry and gave them a bit of money to go with it. It's the least we could do. I know how much it helped when we were in that situation, and were gifted food and other necessities.

I've also donated my own money to various needy folks. And I tip like mad, too.

I dont give to charity myself cuz I dont have enough money but I am a big fan of charity.

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I help with the organization of local charity events with the town hall and the associations of the city (Telethon, breast cancer, alcoholism and drug addiction).

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Right now I do some charity work at this hangout for people that have varied mental health issues. It's nice to cheer up someones day the same way they cheer up mine. Nice and safe place to share whatever your struggles are and not be judged, really like it there.

Every Nov-Dec me and my wife donate to the yearly christmas charity for people that can't afford food and/or gifts for their small children.

Occasionally donate clothes and items to The Church City Mission, which does great job (and the only religious organization I know of that is really gay friendly), and donate some money to this safe spot café for addicts so they can get meals and coffee for free.

Oh, everytime I participate in any lottery about 7% of what I spend goes to a local animal shelter.

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I do not do any charities at this moment and time.

Thanks for the train. I have done charity work in the past for an organization that helps people with blindness/visual impairment. I really enjoyed doing it, but my current work/life schedule doesn't allow for it right now. I'd like to do it again some day.

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At my job, we get 7 paid days per year to volunteer, and we're expected to take them. I usually exceed by quite a bit and get some award for it (which is nice, but I don't do any of this for rewards, other than the reward of feeling good for contributing to society ;) ).

For the past couple of years, I've volunteered as a truck driver and technical crew with a high school choir that does tours. They needed somebody who can drive a 26' truck and back it into spaces to unload with nothing more than side mirrors (learned to drive a truck w/no power steering and no power brakes when I was 10...thanks, Dad!), and then I also am part of the set-up/tear-down crew as well as the spotlight technician. It's fun to help support kids that are actively participating in the arts.

Additionally, I volunteer at my local food bank (the one near downtown Houston is HUGE), and I've done almost every job there from unloading on the dock to filling standardized boxes to be handed out to families to serving food directly from the kitchen to trash duty/running the plastic recycling hydraulic press.

I also do a lot of one-off stuff through local churches, like show up and build shelves or clean out rooms for foster care organizations, etc.

And I do some simple online volunteering through work where we'll dedicate a couple of hours to helping various eco groups do things like count penguins, nests, and eggs. It's kind of cool...they have all of these cameras set up near their habitats, and they take pictures every so often. And they need humans to get good counts of the penguins and their nests for their statistical analysis in their studies. So you just work on one picture, tagging everything, tell it when you're done, then move on to the next one. The night ones are pretty challenging. It's kind of nice to be able to help with something even if it's being done remotely.

Bump, thanks. I donate an amount monthly to GiveDirectly. I chose them because they're listed as one of the more effective charities on The Life You Can Save, and and I like the idea of the recipients make their own decisions about how to use the money to improve their lives. I have a problem with the massive wealth disparities that exist in the world, so this is just me way to make a infinitesimal correction to that.

Edit: sorry, just realised you asked "IRL" - I guess the answer is "no" :/

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I donate to a few non-profit service organizations and I also donate a week of my time every year to go to another country with a large group and build houses for people in need as well as contribute to other humanitarian needs. It's very fulfilling.

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My only charity is double-red donations.

Over the last few years, I donated mostly to privacy-oriented charities (Tor Project, Privacy International, EFF, ACLU), and to some cancer research ones. Didn't really have time to participate in them directly though.
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