Offset your first-world spending by making a donation to one of the following to appease your guilt!
Pick Your Shame:
Took three planes to an exotic beach vacation?
Union of Concerned Scientists: Environmental advocacy with a focus on clean energy solutions, global warming, and large-scale food production.
Spent $75 on a cannabis vape for your trip home this holiday season because, let’s face it — your family stresses you out!?
The Center for Constitutional Rights: Donate to the organization that is protecting immigrant rights and helping families stay united.
Spent $118 million to buy a Trump cabinet position after also ejaculating yourself into space for another $5.5 billion dollars when you could have funded all the vaccines for, um, EVERYONE?? Okay that’s not YOU, but still. This organization is great:
Gavi: The Vaccine Alliance helps vaccinate almost half the world’s children against deadly and debilitating infectious diseases.
Assumed your new co-workers pronouns? And got it wrong?
Trans Youth Equality Foundation: Fund education, advocacy, and support for transgender youth and their families.
Spent $3,000 on an operation for your 10-year old dog?
World Wildlife Fund: Join 100,000+ members who all believe it’s time for action, not words, to bring our world back to life. And adopt a penguin while you’re at it!
Frivolously spent $100 on novelty glow-in-the-dark condoms for your party while 21 states have abortion bans?
Reproductive Futures: The organization building the legal foundation for reproductive health care access nationwide through telemedicine abortion and post abortion care expansion.
Indulged $500 In A Cucumber & Chocolate Bath Spa Treatment?
Planned Parenthood: Support sexual healthcare for people of all income levels and defend abortion access globally!
Picking Up A $6 Designer Coffee…Every Day??
Water For People: Give people clean water. Duh.
Just Got a $400 Teeth Whitening?
Smile Train: Provide cleft palate surgery for children around the world.
Shopped at Walmart this year? We know. It’s so cheap!!! (Guess why?)
Labor Lab: Help fight workers’ rights violations! Protect the right to unionize!
Spending thousands every year to cut and dye your hair?
(This one’s a reach… but who does the llama look like? If he were, say, orange and is hellbent on taking away our civil liberties daily??)
ACLU, American Civil Liberties Union: Help defend and preserve the rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution.
Wasting energy arguing with your extended family about fake news facts?
News Literacy Project: Donate to an organization working with educators and journalists to give students the skills they need to discern fact from fiction and to know what to trust.
Asked your Black friend to explain "microaggressions" to you rather than just Googling it?
Darkness Rising: Donate to an organization committed to inspiring mental health conversations and providing resources in the black community.
Dropped a small fortune on a bathroom renovation complete with bidet?
ShelterBox: Right now, over 100 million people around the world have been made homeless by disaster and conflict. ShelterBox provides emergency shelter and tools for families who have lost everything.
