The Life You Can Save or “Donating to Charity”
- December 19th, 2010
- By Martin Iwanowicz
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This holiday season I’ll be making a donation to one of the organizations listed here:
http://www.thelifeyoucansave.com/organizations
This is a compiled list of the most effective charities. The metric they use is an estimation of how much money it costs to save a life, which usually ends up going to impoverished 3rd-world areas. You can be selective, too. There are a few different choices for what the charities do, and I believe some of them even have donations specific to geographic regions.
I wanted to set it up and pledge to donate 10% of my photography net income, but I got to it too late in the game. A quick discussion with my tax adviser revealed it would be a huge mess to do that so close to the end of the year. Oh well, I’ll just have to keep that in mind for next year.
So basically I can’t officially claim that I’ll be donating a specific percentage, and I can’t offer any of my customers the benefits of a tax write-off for donating to a 501(c)(3) non-profit. But I can say I plan on donating, and I urge you to do it as well. It feels good. :)
Cheers,
-Martin