Re: Charitable Giving
I don't have any money anymore, but when I did, we had this huge intricate taxonomy we'd use when doling it out, and the Little Muffin and I would have family meetings to portion it out in different quantities.
We had general categories for corporeal needs like food and shelter, justicey things like legal foundations and advocacy, and cultural things like arts and beautification and stuff. These were further subdivided, when applicable, into human, companion animal, and environmental.
So, a food bank or homeless shelter would be corporeal human; a no kill shelter would be corporeal companion animal; and conservation groups would be corporeal environmental. We didn't actually have a formula, but we'd try to portion things out so that there was some balance in giving to both short-term and long-term goals--the thinking being that, while certain corporeal needs were more immediately urgent to preserving life, the others were geared toward improving life in the longer term.
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