many charities and donations are scams

I hate how many charities and donations are scams. It is good to donate to charity but these days there are many charities that are scams. I dont want to have to research everything. Even when I do these are a lot of opposing evidence. all the popular ones like unicef,united way,mercy housing water street mission and four diamonds all have negatives about them. I don't even know where to donate. I used to just do whatever everyone else is doing because I thought this many people know best but no one really does research on it.

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MasterDvdC · 61-69, M

You do have to be careful. One of the best is UMCOR (United Methodist Committee On Relief). 100% of donations for a specific disaster (for example Haiti hurricane relief) goes to that disaster. No overhead from disaster donations. That's because the church as a whole pays the bills. And they are one of the first in and usually the last out. I saw it first hand. My area was deviated by 8 tornadoes several years ago. UMCOR had people there almost before the all clear signal stopped (my pastor was the one that called them and we housed them). And they were still there over a year later.