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What are 4 of the best charities to donate to in America confirmed recentley? Best as in they use money correctley, and no history of scamming people.
1. Direct Relief
Founded in 1948, Direct Relief is California's largest international humanitarian nonprofit organization. The organization provides medical assistance to improve the health and lives of people affected by poverty and disaster, both in the United States and throughout the world.
Since 2000, Direct Relief has responded to a wide range of urgent and ongoing health emergencies by providing more than $3.4 billion in essential material resources such as medicine, supplies and equipment, including more than $500 million in assistance in the United States.
2. MAP International
MAP International is a global Christian health organization that partners with people living in conditions of poverty to save lives and develop healthier families and communities. For instance, it recently sent medicine and disaster-relief supplies to Haiti in the wake of the devastation left by Hurricane Matthew.
Founded in 1954, MAP also helps to prevent disease by improving water supplies and promotes health to create hope and lasting change in more than 115 countries. It works with local leaders to help educate and train communities to deal with health threats such as HIV/AIDS, and partners with more than 300 organizations, agencies and medical missions around the world.
3. The Rotary Foundation
This charity brings together a global network of volunteers who dedicate their time and talent to tackle the world's most pressing humanitarian challenges. The Rotary Foundation connects 1.2 million members from more than 200 countries to projects that focus on disease prevention and treatment, water and sanitation, and maternal and child health.
PolioPlus is one of its biggest initiatives and seeks to eradicate polio around the world. Since the program's start in 1985, Rotary and its partners, including the World Health Organization and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, have immunized more than 2.5 billion children in 122 countries.
4. Samaritan's Purse
Since 1970, Samaritan's Purse has helped meet the needs of people who are victims of war, poverty, natural disasters, disease and famine, with the purpose of sharing God's love through His Son, Jesus Christ. Through its ministry, Operation Christmas Child, the organization has delivered more than 135 million shoe boxes filled with gifts to poor children in more than 150 countries.
Its World Medical Mission sends doctors, equipment and supplies to underprivileged countries. Community development and vocational programs in impoverished villages and neighborhoods around the world help people break the cycle of poverty and give them hope for a better tomorrow.
5. AmeriCares
AmeriCares is an emergency response and global health organization that saves lives and builds healthier futures for people in crisis in the United States and around the world. Since it was established in 1979, AmeriCares has delivered more than $12 billion in humanitarian aid to 164 countries, including the United States. It recently sent medicines and supplies to Haiti in the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew and is helping in the fight against Zika throughout Latin America and the Caribbean by partnering with hospitals and clinics.
A big focus of AmeriCares is educating community health workers so they in turn can build a stronger health-care system in the cities and towns where they live and work.