If you are given 10 million dollars, and HAVE to contribute all of it to a non-profit organization, which?

Question

do you give the money to, and why?

I'd go with something that would offer scholarships to community colleges for inner city kids that didn't have a shot at college any other way.

Answer 1

10 million at a 4 percent intrest rate would net 400,000 a year.

i would start a non profit org, that would put 4 people a year through college and select inner city or improvished youth that showed great potential for academic study. any left over money from the 400,000 would be put back into the account so that it could grow and keep up with inflation. 4 people a year may not be a lot, but in 50 years that is 200 kids that got an education that would ahve been pumping gas otherwise. and god knows what great things that they would do with their educations. people have a way of giving back to the communities that they came from. thoes 4 people a year may become doctors that would provide free or affordable helathcare to their community..

Answer 2

OH I would give it to Dr. Muhammed Yunus of Bangladesh.

This man won the Nobel Peace Prize for his humanitarian work in India and in particular Bangladesh. He founded the Grameen Microloan Bank. It was such a success that such banks and organizations are popping up all around the world. Grameen now has 2100 Branches throughout India, primarily Bangladesh.

His Institution has reversed conventional banking practiced by removing the need for collateral and created a banking system based on mutual trust, accountability, participation and creativity. GB provides credit to the poorest of the poor in rural Bangladesh, without any collateral. At GB, credit is a cost effective weapon to fight poverty and it serves as a catalyst in the over all development of socio-economic conditions of the poor who have been kept outside the banking orbit on the ground that they are poor and hence not bankable.

Professor Yunus reasoned that if financial resources can be made available to the poor people on terms and conditions that are appropriate and reasonable, "these millions of small people with their millions of small pursuits can add up to create the biggest development wonder."

As of December, 2006, it has 6.91 million borrowers, 97 percent of whom are women. With 2319 branches, GB provides services in 74,462 villages, covering more than 89 percent of the total villages in Bangladesh. One woman, for example, took enough money to just buy a phone. She charged the village for use of it and now has a home, land, and a business. Her children are dressed and being educated because now she can afford supplies. Just for the cost of a cellphone!

The programme has now moved to include street people with the creation of The Struggling (Beggar) Members Program is a new initiative to confront a sustained campaign that microcredit cannot be used by the people belonging to the lowest rung of poverty, as well as to reinforce the Bank's campaign that credit should be accepted as a human right.

A typical loan to a beggar member amounts to Tk. 500 (US$ 9.00). The goal of the program is not only to economically empower but also to boost the morale and dignity of the beggars.

I was in India last year and I saw the poverty. I saw the poor children on the streets trying to sell whatever they could find so they were selling, not begging. But I saw the beggar children too and will never forget their eyes.

Dr. Yunus is doing something that has really changed thousands of lives. And, inspired by his success, there are many other such organizations springing up. People are not given hand outs.. they are given a hand.

OK where is my $10 m? Can I at least take plane fare off the top so I can deliver it in person?

Answer 3

I would give it to the Asatru Alliance of Kindreds. We need MORE good norsemen following the ancestral gods and 10 million would keep that group running for generations. Long enough to increase the number of Asatruar in the US a thousand fold.

Answer 4

I would donate it to the Humane Society, to help the abandoned, abused, and helpless animals that society seems to keep dumping like yesterday's trash.

It splitting it was an option, half would go to the Humane Society and the other half to an addictions rehabilitation organization, to help some of the human beings who are also damaged and lost.

Answer 5

I'd give it to all the animal rights organizations and humane societies, environmental organizations trying to save the rain forests globally and stop the raping of the earth by corporate lumber contractors and wasteful, careless greedy opportunists, organizations trying to stop the butchering of animals in other lands for their pelts,
any organization who exposes the horrors of corporate farming victims and agribusiness, and the misery of all animals kept in captivity for their fur, their meat, etc.

Answer 6

I would like to split it. At least a million would go for a certain home for kids in Latin America. I like your idea of scholarships - probably a good part of it would go for something like that.

Answer 7

Probably a literacy campaign. If more people could read efficiently there would be a lot less strife, in general.

You'd be amazed how many people don't read in this world, or rarely read.

If not that, it would probably go to somewhere providing health coverage for those without it.

Answer 8

In Mark 10 starting at about oh verse 15 we are told about a rich young ruler and Jesus told his deciples something that i will tell you, IF your rich it is HARD to enter the kingdom of God because The Second member of The Godhead Jesus Christ became poor JUST TO SAVE YOU and will a person keep his wealth [its really God's anyway] and then enter God's kingdom and stand before God when folks died for knowledge and/or food that he coulld have provided, will he indeed?You live in a world that has aa total death rate, no one gets out alive, if you gain the whole world and loose your own life at the end how much money you had in your bank account will matter for what? In Mal. 3:8-11 10% of that is God's anyway so if your keeping it God calls YOU a thief. Find out much more on line free bible lessons www.itiswritten.com bible questions www.bibleinfo.com talk to me also [e-mail] visit a Seventh Day Adventist Church on Sabbath [saturday is the seventh day sabbath not sunday the first day of the week] in your area.

Answer 9

How about "the national make my butt $10,000,000 richer organization".

If that did not work out, then the national park foundation. The planet is all we have. We can't let every square mile of forest be turned into a housing plan. Planet earth....Something for the kids to have when I am gone.

Answer 10

Animal rescue. Not to be confused with "animal welfare" groups like PeTA. I'd donate it to a network of rescue groups in the attempt to put a dent in the millions of animals that are killed every year because there aren't enough homes.