OzBargain 2016 Christmas Donations - $28,000 to Charities of Your Choice

scotty on 15/12/2016 - 12:04
Last edited 22/12/2016 - 12:31 by 1 other user

Update 21 Dec 2016: Thanks for all who have voted! The top 7 charities chosen by the OzBargain community are:

  • beyondblue
  • Cancer Council
  • Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders)
  • RSPCA
  • Alzheimer's Australia
  • R U OK?
  • Kids With Cancer

They will each receive $4,000 donations from OzBargain (Delvu Media Pty Ltd) which I will get it organised this week.

Update 20 Dec 2016: We have reached 1,000 unique commenters. Thus for this Christmas OzBargain will donate $28,000 to the top 7 voted charities. Adding more comments won't increase the donation amount, however please continue to vote.

It's Christmas time and a good time to be reminded to be generous (yes, being frugal and being generous does not need to be mutually exclusive). For this year OzBargain will be donating $18,000 to 5 charities of your choices. Moreover, for every unique commenter in this thread, we will be donating an extra $10.

  • We'll take suggestions from commenters using this poll feature. There are some rules regarding to suggestions:

    • The poll will be pre-filled with top 10 charities from last year's poll. The list will be alphabetically sorted at first and result hidden until the poll finishes.
    • It would be great if you can provide a link to the charity in the comment.
    • It must be Australian or benefiting Australians (we are OzBargain after all).
    • It must be a Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR). Therefore "Wikipedia Foundation" from last year's poll does not qualify.
    • All suggestions will be moderated before adding to the poll.

  • Donation amount will be $18,000 + $10 x number of unique commenters. So if 400 OzBargainers commented in this thread we will donate $22,000 to charities. Update: this will be capped at 1,000 commenters.

  • Top 5 voted charities will receive donations, and the donation will be evenly distributed. For example if $22,000 is the final donation amount, each charity will receive $4,400 in donation.

Poll, suggestion & commenting starts today (15 Dec 2016), and will close at 12PM on Thursday 22 December. I will take the comment count at that point in time to calculate the final amount to be given to the charities, and will try to do so before Christmas (25 Dec).

Check this page for charity donations from OzBargain in the past.

TL;DR Vote for a charity in the list or suggest another charity to vote for. Also $10 extra per comment.

Update 16 Dec 9:30AM: Suggestion feature has been removed as there are almost 50 charities in the poll already. Please just pick the charity of your choice from the list.

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  • mcbeff on 21/12/2016 - 14:41

    Great work

  • [Deactivated] on 21/12/2016 - 14:49

    Thanks for doing this.

  • [Deactivated] on 21/12/2016 - 15:29

    Good stuff. Thank you.

  • DeepSea on 21/12/2016 - 16:10
    +1

    Lot's of great charities.

    Consider this too: Sustainable Population Australia http://www.population.org.au/

    The suffering that other charities want to alleviate often stems from unsustainable populations.

    • Famine
    • Disease and Illness
    • War
    • Environmental Degradation
    • Refugees/Migration
    • Poverty
    • …
    • DeepSea on 21/12/2016 - 22:18

      Would be appreciated, if you're going to down-vote, at least provide some thought on how an infinite number of humans can inhabit this planet?

  • fxwwj on 21/12/2016 - 16:14

    Awesome work

  • mashimus on 21/12/2016 - 16:50

    Woohoo

  • dom on 21/12/2016 - 16:55

    LYW

  • ravenit on 21/12/2016 - 17:32

    Good work, more companies need to do stuff like this :)

  • solar on 21/12/2016 - 18:55

    Excellent idea. Thanks for doing it.

  • Ravensbane on 21/12/2016 - 19:15
    -2

    Great job all.
    Please dont vote for Salvation Army. Not only are they extremely homophobic but also have the largest portion of donations go to things like wages than other similar groups like St Vincent De Pauls.

    • exit on 21/12/2016 - 22:02

      They do some of the most work here in Australia's local communities. Even if what you're saying is true, it would only be to a negligible portion of people. Don't generalise.

      • Ravensbane on 21/12/2016 - 22:25

        Lets just say this. I volunteered for St Vincents for 2 years. Now vinnies does not pay their drivers or managers of the stores. In fact no one is paid in the local stores at all. All volunteers. Also their goods are priced to not only get some money in the till but also to help people. For example a dog blanket, blanket with stains or some minor holes, would be $2.

        Now Salvos on the other hand pays all their drivers, and the managers are on a good salary with a car allowance and a car. On top of that they will sell the same blankets for $10-$20 that we at Vinnies sold for dog blankets at $2. Now I know this as fact as we would get Salvos staff come into our store, buy the dog blankets and then re sell them in their store. Stores were 2 shops apart. Funny enough that store is no longer there as they went bust.

        As for the Homophobic stance, just google salvation army homophobic for yourself and see the mountain of evidence including internal memos/documents.

        Donate to who you see fit but there are many, many organisations more deserving of the money.

        "it would only be to a negligible portion of people" those people matter as much as anyone else.

    • phoenixx on 22/12/2016 - 09:34

      You need to watch ted talks on how nfps need to work…

  • fruit on 21/12/2016 - 20:18
    -1

    Black Dog!

  • iamblaq on 21/12/2016 - 20:36

    Good work Ozbargain!!!!!!

  • snowcold on 21/12/2016 - 21:15

    Royal Children's is the one for me

  • Underlord on 21/12/2016 - 22:14
    +1

    Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency - https://www.vacca.org/

  • dirtybird on 22/12/2016 - 05:22

    Thanks

  • ajs900 on 22/12/2016 - 06:50

    Thanks!

  • tommyben on 22/12/2016 - 07:09

    Well done ozbargain!

  • Bargain4U on 22/12/2016 - 07:36

    Minimising tax

  • kuronai on 22/12/2016 - 09:20

    Nice work OzB.

  • folken on 22/12/2016 - 09:26

    Great effort!

  • norimono on 22/12/2016 - 09:28

    Thank you ozbargain

  • CacheHunter on 22/12/2016 - 09:52

    this is a great initiative Scotty. Thanks

  • guppal on 22/12/2016 - 10:52

    Great cause to work for. I go for SALVOS

  • mnc on 22/12/2016 - 10:53

    So proud to be a part of ozbargain, even in a very small way by commenting

  • Jcimdroy on 22/12/2016 - 11:06

    Highly appreciated, keep up the good work !!

  • forumninja on 22/12/2016 - 12:10

    Thank you OzBargain for doing great work for society.

  • scotty on 22/12/2016 - 12:32
    +14

    Thanks for all who have voted! The poll has finished and the top 7 charities chosen by the OzBargain community are:

    • beyondblue
    • Cancer Council
    • Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders)
    • RSPCA
    • Alzheimer's Australia
    • R U OK?
    • Kids With Cancer

    They will each receive $4,000 donations from OzBargain (Delvu Media Pty Ltd) which I will get it organised this week.

  • [Deactivated] on 22/12/2016 - 12:32
    +1

    Brilliant!

  • malouphix on 22/12/2016 - 14:45

    Great work!

    +10

  • thydzik on 22/12/2016 - 15:03

    too late to comment.

  • Roary on 22/12/2016 - 18:39

    Awesome OzBargain!!!

  • Pynylopy on 23/12/2016 - 08:09

    Hooray, we got a fantastic mix of humanitarian and animal causes :)

  • Ravensbane on 23/12/2016 - 08:29

    Awesome result and good on OzBargain!

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