Hi all,
This is the time of year that Buddhist Global Relief (BGR) has their large fundraiser, an organization founded by the scholar-practitioner monk Bhikkhu Bodhi. You can also designate them as a charity on Amazon, if you like, and a percent of purchases goes to their work.
You can easily see how BGR alloates monies by just scrolling down any of BGR's web pages, where they have a pie graph of spending, https://buddhistglobalrelief.org.
Their specific fiscal records of spending are also easily available in a click so you can assess how they spend your donations: https://buddhistglobalrelief.org/active/financialInfo.html
For example: here is their IRS Form 990 for 2013: https://buddhistglobalrelief.org/documents/FinancialDocuments/BGR_990_FYE_2013-06-30.pdf and in lines 14 and 15 of "Expenses" one can quickly see no salaries or benefits were given. This is a volunteer group.
91% of their funds are directly applied to their projects, like "Making markets for women" in Bangladesh [1] and rice intensification.
Here are the walk dates.
| Save the Date |
| Ann Arbor, Mi | Sat. Sept. 27 |
| Escondido, CA | Thur. Oct. 23 |
| Houston, TX | Sat. Nov. 22 |
| Los Angeles, CA | Sun. Oct. 26 |
| New York, NY | Sat. Nov. 1 |
| San Francisco, CA | Sat. Oct. 4 |
| San Jose, CA | Sun. Oct. 19 |
| Seattle, WA | Sat. Sep. 6 |
| St. Louis, MO | Sun. Oct. 5 |
| Willington, CT | Sun. Nov. 9 |
I try to walk in NY, but may also make CT this year.
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[1] Relatedly, but not BGR, see also Nicholas Kristof's article in the NYTimes of the effect to war and peace when women/girls around the world also are educated in secular core subjects (math, science, reading..)