Donation on Shine

How to find the right charity for you

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“Donation Dashboard” keeps charity on the road of your choice

You want a new jacket. So what do you do? You go to the store and buy that new Calvin Klein one you’ve been eyeing. You want that cool Coldplay album. What do you do? You go to the store and buy the CD (or, more likely these days, you head to iTunes and download it). You want to buy shares of a company or learn how. What do you do? Maybe you go to WeSeed.

But how do you find a charity worth your money? Seems a little more complicated, doesn’t it? “It's more difficult to give money away intelligently than it is to earn it in the first place,” Andrew Carnegie once said. (And he didn’t have to deal with the onslaught of information we all have nowadays.)

4 more ways to cash in gift certificates

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By Katie McCaskey, Geezeo.com

The person who gave you a gift certificate this year knew you’d appreciate the card’s spending flexibility. But what if you’re not a fan of the gift card store? For example, a friend of mine received a Wal-Mart gift card from her employer. Nice gesture, but, my friend personally disagrees with the company’s record on a number of social issues. What to do?

Here are four more ways you can cash in your gift certificates:

Five ways to give back

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<img alt="Alison Gootee" title="Alison Gootee" src="http://img4.realsimple.com/images/tv/episode-108/108-art-give-back_300.jpg?300:357" align="left" width="300" height="357">REAL SIMPLE. REAL LIFE. <em>makeover star <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.realsimplereallife.com/television/episode-guide/episode-108/meet-peggy-normandin-00000000004333/?xid=yshifivwa5">Peggy Normandin</a> volunteers her time to charitable causes in her area -- namely Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic and Casa Teresa, which provides housing for pregnant women in need. Here, five worthy organizations that could really use </em>your<em> help.</em>