So some people I know had luck recently with the subreddit 'Charity' (https://www.reddit.com/r/Charity/) - and I thought I'd share here, since a lot of people are struggling with homelessness, unsafe housing, bills as a major reason for CTB because, while taxes are slightly-theft, profit is way-more-serious-theft and capitalism's infinite growth is a vampire that feeds on the blood and dehumanization of the working classes -
Anyway. I digress. So read the rules first, they don't want posts to just link to paypals, it works best if you've made a gofundme already and post asking people to chip in. Then /r/donate lets you do whatever you want, is more a hit-or-miss free for all, quality of responses may vary.
It seems like https://www.reddit.com/r/RandomKindness/ is a good one for non-money asks... Like having specific things sent to you, or items off an amazon wishlist or something. Uh /r/food_bank and /r/food_pantry too, seem to actually be working for folks I've talked to.
They all have different rules for how long you need an account for, how many upvote-points you need, whatever, stupid barriers like that.
But honestly - now that everyone's in emergency mode - having basic needs around housing and health supplies taken seriously in a way they weren't before, is kind of a situation of "strike while the iron is hot" and fully reasonable to take advantage of the change in attitudes.
It's been such a goddamn long emergency.
Anyway. I digress. So read the rules first, they don't want posts to just link to paypals, it works best if you've made a gofundme already and post asking people to chip in. Then /r/donate lets you do whatever you want, is more a hit-or-miss free for all, quality of responses may vary.
It seems like https://www.reddit.com/r/RandomKindness/ is a good one for non-money asks... Like having specific things sent to you, or items off an amazon wishlist or something. Uh /r/food_bank and /r/food_pantry too, seem to actually be working for folks I've talked to.
They all have different rules for how long you need an account for, how many upvote-points you need, whatever, stupid barriers like that.
But honestly - now that everyone's in emergency mode - having basic needs around housing and health supplies taken seriously in a way they weren't before, is kind of a situation of "strike while the iron is hot" and fully reasonable to take advantage of the change in attitudes.
It's been such a goddamn long emergency.
