Starting up a relief effort/international charity?

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Trying to get some shit done at my school. All of these fucking kids at my school keep on talking about Joseph Kony and are stuck in a perpetual cycle of ignorance and retardation (thinking that sharing a video a hundred times is going to help out kids in Uganda). I'm trying to get shit done by starting up a charity/relief effort/whatever-the-fuck-you-want-to-call-it dedicated to helping citizens in places that meet some or all of the following criteria:

1) Have a decentralized, irresponsible, or oppressive government.
2) Engaged in an intranational conflict (i.e. civil war or government war on gangs/drug trade).
3) Have an obvious possibility for economic growth via microfinances (microloans to be more specific)

More specifically I'm talking about places such as Syria, South India, Sudan/South Sudan, and Karachi. I'm probably going to organize events with 50~ students at my school that aren't retarded to help raise money for the citizens of these places and promote the shit out of this via social media.

I'm not sure if anyone here has any experience with international charities or anything, but if they do, I have two questions:
How the fuck should I get money over to these people and would I be better donating to Red Cross [who uses a miniscule amount of money donated to them to actually help people] or some shit if there's no other way to do so?

tl;dr nigger [who needs good shit for his college resume] wants to start charity to save other poorfag niggers but has no idea how to get money to said poorfag niggers.
 


It is not easy. I am involved with two different global charities that basically do this by going there or sending their own team to the area in question to provide whatever help they can.

The founder of one, who happens to have been a tour manager for Neil Young, Fleetwood Mac, and a bunch of other huge acts, says it's much easier to organize and manage a tour with 150 people involved than it is to send supplies to people in 3rd world countries who really need them.

I'm not trying to discourage you, I'm just saying, be prepared to face some challenges.
 
I wish you the best of luck; you can do it. Put your full heart and passion in it and keep grinding no matter what negativity comes from the ''haters''. Where in S. FL are you? PM??
 
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kingofsp said:
It is not easy. I am involved with two different global charities that basically do this by going there or sending their own team to the area in question to provide whatever help they can.

The founder of one, who happens to have been a tour manager for Neil Young, Fleetwood Mac, and a bunch of other huge acts, says it's much easier to organize and manage a tour with 150 people involved than it is to send supplies to people in 3rd world countries who really need them.

I'm not trying to discourage you, I'm just saying, be prepared to face some challenges.
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God dangert. Thanks for the honest response (expected something else from a gay webmaster forum) I can't really travel to these kind of places on my own as a high schooler. Any other options?

spcproman said:
I wish you the best of luck; you can do it. Put your full heart and passion in it and keep grinding no matter what negativity comes from the ''haters''. Where in S. FL are you? PM??
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Thanks bro (not sure if rapist or just friendly guy) I'm in the Davie/Miramar/Pembroke Pines area - I'll leave it at that.
 
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Contact Kiva, and ask if you can get into contact with their field managers in the region(s) you want to help. Maybe you could work directly with the field managers, develop projects together, etc.
 
kingofsp said:
It is not easy. I am involved with two different global charities that basically do this by going there or sending their own team to the area in question to provide whatever help they can.

The founder of one, who happens to have been a tour manager for Neil Young, Fleetwood Mac, and a bunch of other huge acts, says it's much easier to organize and manage a tour with 150 people involved than it is to send supplies to people in 3rd world countries who really need them.

I'm not trying to discourage you, I'm just saying, be prepared to face some challenges.
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This is spot on from my experience as well. I am involved with a charity that funds water and sanitation projects around the world and it is very difficult to verify that funds are properly used from the other side of the world. We've seen images come back photoshopped, been told stories of program directors dying, and other various shenanigans which have turned out to be covers for people pocketing funds or selling donated equipment.

There can be a certain amount of red tape getting supplies across borders too. The charity I'm close to has been a 501(c)3 since the 1960s with a good track record so that does help here and there. The most difficult thing to navigate IME is making sure resources are properly utilized. It goes so far as to be worth spending a few thousand in overhead expenses to have a representative in the field for accountability and make sure things go as intended rather than donate more with no accountability and always wonder or find out later that resources were mismanaged.

One possible angle might be to not set up a formal charity per se but instead coordinate with a charity that you have vetted and know for sure does quality work, and arrange a contract with them to utilize the resources in your fund to your specifications. A few things to look for are overhead expense % (very good indicator), amount of time operating, validity of testimonials, and level of fiscal transparency.
 
Here is an idea:

Get to work on your own shit, and improve your life and the lives of the people around you. Then you can think about others far away.
 
Well first you need to:

1. Form a corporation in your home state.

2. File IRS form 1023, requesting tax exempt status.
That costs between $400 and $1300.

3. Decide what category your project fits into.
There are 31 categories of nonprofit corporations.
That will determine your legal activities.

4. Create a board of directors and by laws.

5. Have board meetings and keep minutes of those meetings.

6. Petition your state for a solicitation license so that you can fundraise.
If you don't have that license, you will pay $1000 fine and a year in jail for EACH offense.

7. File form 990 with the IRS and all applicable state and local reports as required.

AND THEN you can give thought to taking someone's money for charitable efforts
 
Didn't even notice this thread got revived.

spcproman said:
Just making convo. I'm into females ;)

Do you like this horrible state? lol
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I love the chill, monotonous lifestyle.

greenleaves said:
Here is an idea:

Get to work on your own shit, and improve your life and the lives of the people around you. Then you can think about others far away.
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Good idea - I'm just trying to get some more unique extracurricular activities for my college resume (trying to get into an Ivy League).
 
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