OzBargain 2017 Christmas Donations - $28,600 to Charities of Your Choice

Update — poll is now closed. Thanks for all who have voted & comments. At the closing of the poll, we have 860 unique commenters in this thread so the final amount to be donated to the charities is $28,600. Top 5 charities from users' votes are:

  1. beyondblue
  2. Cancer Council
  3. RSPCA Australia
  4. R U OK?
  5. Médecins Sans Frontières Australia

Which would receive a donation of $5,720 each. I'll get that done this week.


If you have been a member of OzBargain for a while you'll remember that we have been doing biannual charity donations at around June (EoFY) and December (Christmas). For this Christmas, OzBargain will be donating $20,000 to 5 charities of your choices. Moreover, for every unique commenter in this thread, we will be donating an extra $10.

This is how the community can participate:

  1. Check whether your favourite charity has already been suggested (under Poll Options). If it has, vote it up! Otherwise you can suggest it by posting a top-level comment (i.e. not replying existing comments). Update: We now have almost 50 charities listed here. I think it's a big enough list and I'll pause the suggestion but you can still vote.

    Suggest a poll option

    If you are suggesting a charity, please provide a link & 1 or 2 sentence telling us what the charity does. It would greatly help other OzBargainers making decisions.

  2. Even if your preferred charity has been suggested, leave a comment and let us know! Remember every unique commenter on this thread will add an extra $10 to the donation.

  3. The poll will run for 7 days. After the poll expires, votes will be revealed and the top 5 charities will be sharing the pool of donation of AUD $20,000 + $10 x number of unique commenters. For example if 500 OzBargainers commented in this thread, we'll donate $25,000 to the chosen charities at $5,000 each.

    I am also putting a cap of maximum 1,000 commenters (just in case), making the cap of the donation at $30,000. If we can reach that level the donation will be shared with top 6 charities from the poll.

Which charity should I suggest?

  • It must be a registered charity eligible for DGR (deductible gift recipient). That would unfortunately make NPOs like Wikipedia & Sea Shepherd ineligible.

  • As we are OzBargain, it would be great if the charity is Australia based or benefits Australians.

  • There are many worthy charities. However as it's for Christmas this year, let's prioritise on charities working on social welfare. While we complained about spending way too much on impulse buys, there are many who don't have regular to access food & shelter, let along online shopping.

To get started, I have included top 10 most voted charities from last year's poll. Suggestion & commenting starts today (11 Dec) and will close at 12PM on Monday 18 Dec. I will then work out the total amount of donation we will send to the charities, and hopefully get all the donations made by Christmas 2017.

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Comments

  • +1

    Great initiative, well done! + for Cancer Council

  • +1

    the cure brain cancer foundation would be a great addition to the list

    love this and the fantastic community on here

  • +1

    $10 for the Cancer Council

    Thank you ozbargain!

  • +1

    Great stuff!

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    $10

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    100

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    +10 :D

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    +Ten

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    +10

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    Tenner

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    Nice Work

  • +1

    Cheers OzB!

  • +1

    +$10

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    +$10

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    Yo $10 thx.

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    +10

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    $10 for R U OK?

  • +1

    $10 for the Royal Flying Doctor Service

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    +10

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    This is amazing. You guys rock more every day.

  • +1

    +$10 for the children's hospital at Westmead

  • +1

    Good work OzB!

  • +1

    Awesome work guys!

  • +1

    Thanks the Ozbargain community for 2017!

  • +1

    Keep up the good work! +10

  • +1

    +$10 thanks very much

  • +1

    Ggrrrrreat, Starlight Foundation, really made a difference in my life this year. Such wonderful people creating sparkles for sick and recovering kids and their families

  • +1

    +$10 to RSPCA, thanks scotty!

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    $10!

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    R U OK?
    Creates community and communication x

  • +1

    This is a great cause, and I'm happy to be part of it.

  • +1

    Well done ozbargain!

  • +1

    Always a great initiative

  • +1

    May as well add my $10 here

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    +10!

  • +1

    Such a noble act. Good job.

  • +1

    tfw want to change my vote

  • +1

    Well done everybody for supporting this nice gesture

  • +2

    Another reason to love Ozbargain

  • +1

    +10 and WWF got my vote this year

  • +1

    Thanks OzBargain!!

  • +1

    Thank you to everyone involved and a very Merry Christmas to all =)

  • +1

    Merry Christmas

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    Love your work Scott. Merry xmas to you all!

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    $$$$$$$$$$

  • +1

    Great work guys. Keep it up.

  • +1

    LYW Ozbargain!!

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    +10

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    Good Work!!! Here's +10

  • +2

    $10 for Medecins Sans Frontieres Australia, thankyou OzB.

    • +3

      This guy seems to be right with you there.
      A little bit sycophantic, but right with you.

      • +2

        Not sycophantic, great minds thinking alike.

        • +1

          Yeah yeah!
          That's it!
          Great minds thinking alike, though in two distinct stages…

      • +1

        Can I please join? https://www.ozbargain.com.au/comment/5413235/

        So glad to see OZB helping out like this.

  • +2

    Meals on Wheels. It's not a 'glamourous' charity but it makes such a difference to people's lives.
    $10

  • +1

    Great initiative, thanks

  • +3

    $10 for Medecins Sans Frontieres Australia, thankyou OzB.

  • +1

    Loving your work guys! Merry Xmas to Ozbargain!

  • +1

    Give my charity some $$$$$

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    Thank you guys

  • +1

    Merry Christymas OzB. $10 for Cancer Council

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    Death Row Unchained Animal Rescue. They doing an amazing job of saving animals a few hours before they are supposed to be killed at the shelters and they rehome them.

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    $10 for RSPCA Australia

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    Thank you.

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    $10

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    Merry Christmas

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    And another 10

  • +1

    Great to see Ozbargain supporting australian charities!

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    Commenting

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    +$10

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    +$10

  • +1

    So hard to vote. Great job Ozb

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    OzHarvest

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    I like Doctors Without Borders or as ozbargain says those Medecin guys

  • +1

    beyondblue depression help

  • +1

    To late this year to suggest https://strokefoundation.org.au/ so i'll vote on one of the others.

  • +1

    +$10

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    Beyondblue!

  • +1

    I think Effective Altruism Australia is the closest to the OzBargain spirit!

  • +1

    Here is $10.

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    $10 for R U okay please

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    $10

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    Glad I found this thread. Good work everyone.

  • +1

    Ought to start a charity of my own and call it "feed the hungry student".

  • +1

    $10 for MSF, thanks OzB!

  • +1

    Here's my 2c, I mean $10

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    Tenner!

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    $10 cha-ching! Thanks OzB!

  • +1

    Obligatory comment to raise the donation level :)

  • +1

    Well done guys! Also remember if you're donating to food charity - your donated money can buy 10x more items than you paying retail price for same goods. https://youtu.be/XbYInILDj6Q

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    • $10 👍
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    +$10

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    Thanks

  • +1

    Great idea, thanks Scotty!

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    +10

  • +1

    awesome work Scott and team!

  • +1

    Great work Ozbargain. Such a great community to be apart of.

  • +1

    Merry Christmas .. one and ALL

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