If You Had $100,000 to Donate to Charity...

Parade Magazine asked 1008 Americans what they'd do if given $100,000 to donate to charity. Here's how they'd share it:

*Food and sheltehr for the needy: $15,953.21
*Reserach to cure diseased: $14,311.54
*Disaster relief: $9,308.97
*Animal welfare: $8783.46
*Youth programs: $6,514.53
*Poverty relief/job assistance: $6,234.83
*Education: $6,069.00
*My religion's charity: 5,921.93
*The global environment: $5340.51
*Public health: $4924.82
*Human rights: $4,422.10
*My immediate environment: $3628.49
*Literacy: $2,952.55
*Other religious charities: $2,262.90
*Promoting world democracy: $1,732.32
*Visual and/or performing arts: $1,638.83

It amazes me how much money people would spend over animal welfare (#4) over things like global environment, immediate environment, education, etc...

I would probably give the largest chunk of money to immediate/global environment, then education/literacy, then research to cure diseases.