OzBargain 2015 EoFY Charity Donations - $15,000 to Charities of Your Choice!

scotty on 08/06/2015 - 10:22
Last edited 15/06/2015 - 10:31

It's the End of Financial year charity giving time again! This is the 4th year we are doing this (2012, 2013 & 2014 — see our charity donations page), and in 2015 we are going to give $15,000 to the top 3 charities of your choice ($5,000 each)! Just to simplify the voting, instead of taking suggestions from comments I am just going to list out the top 15 charities from last year's poll. The poll will expire after 7 days and note that vote-changing is allowed.

So,

  • 8 June — poll starts
  • 15 June — poll finishes and top 3 charities picked
  • 16-22 June — charities donated

If the charity is listed on GiveNow I usually use that otherwise whatever method suggested on charity's website. Here are the charity websites if you need more information on the charities listed:

Poll Options expired

  • 72
    Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders)
  • 45
    Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia
  • 45
    The Royal Flying Doctors
  • 43
    Alzheimer's Australia
  • 30
    RSPCA
  • 17
    Swags for Homeless
  • 16
    Fred Hollows Foundation
  • 15
    Westmead Children's Hospital
  • 13
    Lort Smith Animal Hospital
  • 10
    300 Blankets
  • 7
    Fitzroy Legal Service
  • 7
    St Vincent de Paul
  • 5
    Red Cross Australia
  • 2
    Act for Peace
  • 2
    CO-ID (Co-Operation In Development Australia Inc.) led by Fred Hyde
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Comments

  • jzdhgkd on 08/06/2015 - 10:43
    +28

    Thanks for running a great site and always giving back =)

  • TurnipHead on 08/06/2015 - 12:50
    +2

    great initiative as always Scotty!!

  • [Deactivated] on 08/06/2015 - 17:05
    +1

    Outstanding stuff OzB.

  • peanut48 on 08/06/2015 - 18:55
    +1

    Save The Children Australia - https://www.savethechildren.org.au/savenewborns

  • Dacs on 10/06/2015 - 09:40
    +1

    Wow that is really generous. Good on you!

  • shmahoo on 11/06/2015 - 11:59
    +3

    What about jv's charity for underused bold and italic letters?

  • teresakhong on 13/06/2015 - 07:38

    You'll be giving to the top 3 charities but does that mean we get 3 votes or just 1?

    • scotty on 13/06/2015 - 08:13
      +1

      Each person gets one vote but the three charities with most votes get the donation.

  • shmahoo on 13/06/2015 - 08:53

    it seems a little unfortunate, but at the time of writing this, I would have thought that occasionally the Flying Doctors (4th) would check some guys' Prostates (3rd)

  • TRENT86 on 14/06/2015 - 02:18
    +2

    I voted Royal flying doctors service because they do such an awesome job :)

  • [Deactivated] on 14/06/2015 - 17:56

    You mentioned that you would use givenow, but I saw a bargain here (if giving to Fred Hollows foundation or Royal Flying Doctors): https://store.qantas.com/charities.a2

    Qantas will match the points used :)
    Might miss out on any tax benefit of donation to charities, but the charity may get more by getting some from Qantas as well.

    • scotty on 14/06/2015 - 20:23

      Interesting, but you'll need QFF points to start with…

  • spackbace on 15/06/2015 - 19:25

    Should we put some towards the 4th charity Scotty? Just seems pretty close between 2nd/3rd and 4th :)

    Could be like $4k/$4k/$4k/$3k?

    • scotty on 15/06/2015 - 19:49
      +1

      Maybe next time. Don't want the RSPCA guys/gals coming here saying maybe we should give out to 5 charities :) We did donate to Alzheimer's Australia at last year's EOFY though.

  • scotty on 15/06/2015 - 19:50
    +7

    Thanks for all who have voted. The top 3 charities are:

    • Médecins Sans Frontières
    • Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia
    • The Royal Flying Doctors

    I'll send out the donations later this week.

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