Do you know if any of the listed charities accept PayPal? Could a PayPal account be set up for Fandom Gives, that could be distributed to the individual charities? (Either equally, or by direction at time of payment.)

Also, most charities have ways for volunteers to help. I haven't finished checking those you have listed, but that would be an additional way for fandom to give.

I don't know if there are any specific charities in New Zealand for paedophilia/child molesting victims, but Barnados is a well-known one that helps neglected and abused kids in general. Here is the donation page.

The Smith Family are a good Australian charity. I've benefited from their programs and I have nothing but good things to say.

http://www.thesmithfamily.com.au/index.cfm

I've donated.

Would it be possible to get some Canadian Charities to donate too??

http://www.helpdarfurnow.org/

For where the money goes, from the site HDN has raised $120,000 for Doctors Without Borders and the International Rescue Committee. These organizations supply food, medicine, and other supplies to victims of the genocide in Darfur. HDN has also contributed to the Save Darfur Coalition for awareness raising.

When our chapters raise money, they send it to Help Darfur Now and we send it to the organizations mentioned above. We have made arrangements with these organizations so that the money is specially earmarked for Darfur.

Oh, a world of "Yay!" I am so pleased you have done this because I think it's a brilliant idea. I was honestly contemplating doing it myself and I would not have been any good at organising it. But now there is obviously no need.

Back in the comments of one of the news posts, I said that LJ should make a corporate donation to such groups to show that they really did care about these issues beyond PR appearances. That was what got me thinking about the possibility that fandom could just up and get on with doing so anyway -- if only 1% of the people who signed up to fandom_counts chucked in just $10 then we've got over $3000 right there. But I hope that this comm will be very successful and its success will shame LJ into matching the funds or something.

Have pimped in my little-read LJ.

I think this is a lovely idea, but I'm not entirely sure I'm comfortable w/ posting exactly how much I donated with my lj-name. That's probably silly, since almost none of you know me in real life, but if I were to make a donation, and list it anonymously in your tracking poll, would that be OK, or do you need a specific name attached?

Also, in light of the Darfur comment above, there is someone else doing a deletion related Darfur donation journal, over here. I figured I'd mention it in case you guys were interested in cross advertising, or maybe getting in touch w/ her if you do a theme thing in the future.

Will be pimping as part of a flopsyfest this evening.

One suggestion -- I appreciate that the theme is to combat domestic violence, rape, and child exploitation, but domestic violence is not limited to heterosexual relationships. Given the size of slash fandom, would it be appropriate to include some LGBT (particularly gay male) domestic-violence charities? I know of one in Boston, I can find the link if you need it.

I'm donating to either or both of these Icelandic charities:

Blátt Áfram
This organization works to educate people about child sexual abuse as a means to prevent it. They've ran campaigns educating children, teenagers and adults.

Stígamót
Stígamót is an information and a counseling center for the survivors of sexual violence.

A suggestion for Israeli charity:

Elem (the foundation for at risk youth).

Their (English language) donation page is here, but seems to be down at the moment. This is their "About Us" page in English. They do amazing work and have really saved lives and turned lives around for many.

How about we do it in honor of Livejournal & use their address? Or something similar, so they know where their money goes now.

Also, I wanted to donate my perm account money to RAINN, but it goes from 100 to 500 quickly, and even forty-three bucks isn't fifty. Bibbles. I'll do 100 to RAINN and 50 to my next favorite, I guess.

I think this is a great idea, but I'm not totally comfortable with the bit in the main post about 'combating [i fixd ur typo] violence, abuse, and exploitation towards women and children'. Could you not add some support links for male survivors - such as http://www.mankinduk.co.uk/ , http://www.mensaid.com/ , http://www.malesurvivor.org ? Sexual abuse of men is massively under-reported, and it would be good to avoid compounding that problem here.

Could we have an Australian charity of some sort? I'm not quite sure what, but perhaps Kid's Help Line? It deals with issues of rape as well as other problems of kids.

for Germany I would like to suggest
Dunkelziffer e.V.
Dunkelziffer e.V. kämpft seit 1993 gegen sexuellen Missbrauch von Kindern und gegen Kinderpornographie, mit Therapie, Beratung, Prävention und Fortbildung. Mit unseren Projekten unterstützen wir Opfer, ihre Vertrauenspersonen und alle, die beruflich oder privat mit dem Thema in Berührung kommen.

Der Verein setzt sich seit langem für einen besseren Opferschutz und härtere Strafen ein, sowie für die Enttabuisierung des Themas durch Medienarbeit und eine umfassende Aufklärung der Öffentlichkeit.

short summary in English: against child abuse and child pornography. They do therapy, advice/consulting, prevention and education.
They fight for better protection of the victims, harder punishments and part of their mission to make the topic less of a taboo in public debate


I have heard good things about them before.
Unfortunately I don't know about any fact-checking sites like the ones you suggested for Germany. ... So you might wanna get a second opinion on that?
Whether or not it adds to their credibility that they were part of a fundraiser by one of the major TV stations over here, I let you decide.

I have found a ton of charities that do work in that sector. But I have no idea where to begin any kind of comparison.