I was going to send some funds from my PayPal account into a Tsunami Relief Effort, but I discovered that none of the major charities or sites providing links to charities--including PayPal--accepted PayPal payments. Maybe I'm in a negligible minority here, but this seems like a no-brainer. (I would normally just use my debit card, but I lost it last week; it's cancelled now, but I haven't received a replacement yet.)
I've googled numerous sites that claim to accept PayPal funds for the tsunami disaster relief, but none are organizations I know much about.
So now I'm just stuck wishing for sunshine and occasional fresh rainwater.
Update [12.31.04}: Someone mentioned that Writerscafe.net accepts PayPal donations to forward to AmeriCares. I don't know anything about the site, but it looks legit (there's a long discussion of the site on Fark, and links from several other websites as well as a link to coverage by local newsmedia). Digging around, I found a link to Architecture for Humanity, which is raising funds (and donated labor and materials) for reconstruction efforts; they also accept PayPal.
Update 2 [12.31.04]: PayPal apparently accepts donations via their "Donate" button the main page. I'm not sure if this is new, or if I just missed in during my first go-round. More likely the latter (in which case I'm the "no-brainer" I alluded to above...).
Posted by johndan at December 30, 2004 10:50 PM
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