Haiti & My January Contribution

Continuing with my goal from last year to participate charitably in something every month, I decided to donate some money (and a couple of prayers) to a Haiti earthquake relief fund. Its situations like this that make me so glad for the safety of my family and friends, for the general peace my life has had to date, and the ability to help others. My friend posted this link on Facebook: https://donate.pih.org/page/contribute/haiti_earthquake?source=earthquake&subsource=homepage

She also posted about a website called Charity Navigator, which ranks charities. It makes me feel a lot safer knowing my money is going somewhere real - and to my mother's point, mostly to its operational efforts, not to the "fundraising machine".