There are a few hours left in the giving year.
(Who will win the dubious prize of last begging e-mail of the year? Judges are monitoring my inbox hourly.)
What organizations are worthy of support? Consider this list as some recommendations from me.
These are the groups and projects to which I gave coin (generally tax-deductible), property, and/or effort in 2021. Limited travel and in-person work this year, so my out-of-pocket expenses continue to be down.
- Against Malaria Foundation via GiveWell (special)
- American Association of Community Theatre
- American Bird Conservancy
- American Birding Association
- American Civil Liberties Union
- American Film Institute
- American Friends Service Committee (sustaining)
- American Indian College Fund
- American Visionary Art Museum
- Appalachian Trail Conservancy
- Art21 (new)
- Audubon Naturalist Society (sustaining)
- Bang on a Can (increase)
- Biodiversity Heritage Library
- Bread for the City
- CARE (sustaining)
- The Carter Center (sustaining)
- Casey Trees
- Friends of the Clifton Institute (and volunteer) (new)
- Community of Hope
- Contemporary American Theater Festival
- Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology
- Cultural Tourism DC
- DC Vote
- Earthwatch Institute (return)
- Exceptional Minds (new) (suggested by Apt. 11d)
- Fairfax Library Foundation
- Film Noir Foundation
- FINCA International
- U. S. Fish & Wildlife Service: Migratory Bird Hunting & Conservation Stamp and its friends organization (volunteer)
- First Book
- Flora of Virginia
- Friends of National Arboretum
- Habitat for Humanity of Northern Virginia
- Historical Society of Washington, D.C.
- Huntley Meadows Park (volunteer) as a Fairfax Master Naturalist
- IISD Experimental Lakes Area
- iNaturalist (and volunteer)
- Internet Archive
- Japan Society (new)
- jazz89 KUVO (sustaining)
- The Land Institute
- Literacy Council of Northern Virginia
- Longacre Lea
- Maine Coast Heritage Trust
- Maryland Native Plant Society
- The Metropolitan Opera Guild
- Mount St. Joseph University
- National Association for Urban Debate Leagues (new) (recommended by Jay Caspian Kang)
- Natural Resources Defense Council
- The Nature Conservancy
- Northern Virginia Bird Club (3-year renewal)
- Northwestern University
- Peregrine Fund
- Petra Mayer Memorial Fund for Internships (special)
- Politifact (new)
- Potomac Conservancy
- ProLiteracy
- ProPublica
- Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace & Justice
- Rebuilding Together DC Alexandria
- Reporters without Borders (new)
- Shenandoah National Park Trust
- The Smithsonian Associates
- Silver Spring Stage
- SOME: So Others Might Eat (sustaining)
- Southern Poverty Law Center
- The Sun magazine
- Trout Unlimited
- Union of Concerned Scientists
- Virginia Native Plant Society (and chapter board member)
- Friends of the W&OD Trail
- WAMU 88.5 FM (sustaining) (plus vehicle donation)
- Washington Area Theatre Community Honors (board member)
- Water.org
- Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikipedia (volunteer)
- Wilson Ornithological Society
- Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
- WPFW (sustaining)
- Xerces Society