Every year we send our credit card rewards to charity. We have our favorites, but seeing how many people are struggling with just the financial mess involved with being on the spectrum, I'd like for some of that pittance to go do some good for them.
Unfortunately, WrongPlanet isn't listed as an option (and I somehow doubt it's a 501c3 anyway, not that it needs to be.)
I don't want to send money to Autism Speaks or any of the folks who are participating in practices that make me uncomfortable (e.g. finding a "cure" that translates to terminating pregnancies that test positive for an autism marker.) Ideally, I'd like to send our tiny dollars to someone who is offering direct services to families, like diagnoses, therapies, and supports - and there are many that do so on a state-by-state basis, but I'd love to see something national (or I suppose, international; I'm just assuming that's less likely.)
I'm guessing that I probably won't get an answer quickly enough, but I thought I'd post so I have an idea for next year.
31 Dec 2010, 2:09 pm
