Many thanks to Kiernan O’Connor of the Donor Motivation Program of Houston for a great interview. It incorporates advice that will be equally useful for large investors and for widow’s mite types, and also includes some investing tips.
I don’t think the article is available online yet at Catholic Digest, but I did want to highlight a few of the charities that I recommended in the article:
Save a Family Plan
A top notch international NGO run by Catholics, serving poor Indian families of every caste and religion, and fully in allegiance with the Church. Donors partner with needy families or communities and help them invest so they can become self-sufficient.
Reece’s Rainbow
An adoption ministry with many programs to help families fund the very expensive adoption of children with special needs, many of whom are barely surviving substandard care in orphanages.
Save the Storks
Deploys vans equipped with sonogram equipment to abortion clinics, where they do not protest, but gently offer to show pregnant women an ultrasound of their babies. Many of these women choose life after seeing the child they are carrying.
L’Arche USA
Fosters mutually beneficial relationships between people with and without developmental disabilities. Called by John Paul II a “providential seed of the civilization of love.”
Goods of Conscience (founded by Kiernan O’Connor’s brother, Fr. Andrew O’Connor)
Employs Mayan Indian weavers in Guatemala and underemployed sewers in the Bronx to produce a line of chic, upscale clothing that is environmentally sustainable and preserves a traditional form of weaving.
Chemo Angels
Simply organizes volunteers to commit to sending cards, letters, and the occasional small gift to support and encourage patients going through chemotherapy.
And Then There Were None
Abby Johnson’s ministry to provide financial, emotional, spiritual and legal support to anyone wishing to leave the abortion industry.
