Thanks to pleonastic for mentioning this, I'd have missed out on it otherwise.

Six Apart is offering $30 "philanthropic gift certificates" for use at Donors Choose, an organization that lets you donate to a specific project of your choosing from proposals submitted by (US) schoolteachers. You can use the gift certificate to help buy needed classroom ( Read more... )

Via bookslut:

Dewey Donation System 2006 Book Drive - donate to help the Harrison County, MS library system recover from Katrina. The Pass Christian Library lost its entire collection, the Biloxi Library lost around 39,000 titles (including the entire children's collection), the Gulfport Library lost its entire children's, adult fiction and a/v

Spider-Man Panda Bear Autographed by Tobey Maguire, up for auction benefitting the World Wildlife Fund. Stuffed bears dressed up as something else are always incredibly cute, but this one is off the scale.

There are a bunch of other bears for auction here, like the Nicole Kidman "Moulin Rouge" bear, or the George Clooney "ER" bear, and one ( Read more... )

Today is Sweetmorn, day 37 in the season of Bureaucracy, 3271.

So, nminusone is also offering to make donations (up to $600 total) to several organizations in response to links/comments; it's the least I can do to help publicize it, especially since he picked one of my favorite organizationsRead more... )