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If you could do one anonymous good deed today what would it be?

Asked by Dog (25152points) July 5th, 2009

Lets say you had unlimited funds at your disposal but it all had to be used anonymously to help others and not a penny could be spent on yourself.

What would you spend it on? Who or what would benefit?
Here are some examples:

Fund the restoration of a historic site or building.

Pay for extra aides to help in nursing homes.

Build an air conditioned animal shelter where the climate is overly hot.

What would you do with your money?

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SuperMouse's avatar

I would give it to the city library system so they don’t have to close all their branches on Sunday.

Hambayuti's avatar

Get street children off the street + shelter and medical care for homeless old folks as well.

hug_of_war's avatar

I would establish an organization to adopt kids with special needs (mental retardation/developmental disabilities, physically disabled kids who need special care, etc)

SirBailey's avatar

I would give it all to research scientists who are working on medicines for RARE diseases.

evelyns_pet_zebra's avatar

I would donate it all to the VA to help the veterans with disabilities and their families. The people who have served their country and sacrificed for the good of all deserve one Hell of a lot more than they are getting, that’s for damn sure.

augustlan's avatar

I’d set up a foundation to help children of poverty throughout childhood, all the way through college. It would fund (in no particular order):

A food bank; after school activities; fees for school clubs, field trips, labs, AP exams, etc; decent clothes/shoes and school supplies for back-to-school times; preventative health care; summer programs; career/college fairs and apprenticeship programs; college/vocational school scholarships; weekly meetings with an aim towards educating the kids in those things that parents who don’t have to worry about where the next meal is coming from usually provide – things like self-esteem, manners, instilling a love of reading, the wider world outside of your own immediate neighborhood and comfort zone (comparative religious/cultural things), and so on.

If my funds were truly unlimited, I’d provide decent housing for them and their families, too.

In this way, I’d hope to have an impact far greater than just on the individual children, but on everyone around them, too. An investment in the future, if you will.

OpryLeigh's avatar

I would give it to an animal charity, more than likely the local dog shelter.

YARNLADY's avatar

How unlimited is unlimited? I would use truly unlimited funds to buy up all the food resources in the world and pay people to make sure they were evenly distributed through out the entire world.

This would, indeed, require unlimted funds.

cak's avatar

Set up programs to make sure that school children never went without the food, clothing or school supplies they need. I don’t know if people truly realize the stress that puts on children. Children of all ages should not have to worry if they will be able to have a pencil. It may seem silly; however, when my daughter participated in a program to help under privileged families out with school supplies, a little girl thanked her for her own pencils. She said she never had her own pencils. Beyond that, when my daughter interviewed teachers, to see what they recommended, they pointed out how much stress it puts on children. How some are so embarrassed and can get picked on for not having enough to buy what they are supposed to have for school.

Darwin's avatar

1) Set up the most wonderful animal shelter ever, so no animal would ever be euthanized for no other reason than being homeless or funny-looking or left behind.

2) Fund and staff a training program for foster parents, in order to produce enough well-intentioned and knowledgeable foster homes that no child would ever have to be put in an institution or passed around from pillar to post.

3) Fund a program for visiting companions who could check on all of the elderly, disabled, or poor people, so that they can get human contact and assitance in finding ways to live in a healthy fashion..

yziabites's avatar

- put homeless folks in a house where they will be nurtured.

- fund a training program for all the unskilled.

- give out to foundations which take care of children.

Hambayuti's avatar

I want to add something else…I think I can, since I have an “unlimited fund” =)

Finding a cure for Alzheimer’s – because personally, I think this is the saddest way to go/lose someone you love.

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