The information feed of a user of a social network is full of many messages with requests for fundraising. Someone can not ignore a single announcement, and someone - for the time being indifferently flips through them. However, when the desire to help really arises, some are faced with a serious dilemma: which of the charitable organizations that can be read about on the Internet should receive help.
First you need to decide who needs help in the first place - after all, each non-profit organization has its own mission and tasks.
You can read about the activities of a charitable organization on its website; in the same place - to make a donation.
Charity funds: what they are
One of the most common types of NPOs (non-profit organizations) are charitable foundations. In Russia there are more than a dozen of them, and each specializes in something specific. Some are involved in the treatment or adaptation of children with severe and rare diagnoses (heart, nervous system diseases, etc.), while others are involved in helping poor and large families. There are those who interact with nursing homes and the elderly.
Some of the funds work with the homeless: they provide assistance with document recovery, legal and medical services.
Another category of funds, which in Russia so far has the smallest number, are organizations specializing in the provision of palliative care. They help those who are fatally diagnosed. The funds raised cannot save a life, but they can significantly facilitate its last minutes. Part of the social and charitable programs of such funds are supported by the church.
You can find out about current projects that need sponsorship on the website of the local diocese or on the page of the Synodal Department for Charity and Social Ministry of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Nature protection funds, animal shelters
If the problems of ecology, the extinction of rare species of plants and animals concern you more than the stories of real people, a donation can always be made to the environmental protection fund. Another form of charity that is now widespread is the transfer of funds and the support of shelters for homeless animals. On the website of many shelters, as a rule, information is posted, which they feel is especially necessary.
Media support
Not only charitable foundations, but also a number of media outlets have difficulties with financing. First of all, this applies to educational and religious publications. Since they do not have the opportunity to make money on commercial advertising, they exist only thanks to sponsorship subsidies. The financial assistance provided by the patrons is visible to the naked eye - it is thanks to their support that the editorial office has the opportunity to pay for the work of journalists and produce interesting materials.
Crowdfunding: raise funds for treatment or make a film
Crowdfunding is a new kind of charitable cooperation. Through special portals, people raise funds for completely different things and even projects: some for the operation, others for the necessary medical equipment, and still others for the production of the film. One of the successful examples of crowdfunding in Russia is the creation of the album of the Bi-2 group, funds for which were actually collected from the world on a thread.
