An hour of your time for goodwill?

A local writer-comedian asks on X:

Here are some of the eighty-four responses which rolled onto the thread in just a few hours.

  • Compassionate Action for Animals
  • All About Family
  • MELSA for libraries
  • Minneapolis City Soccer org
  • People Serving People (Shelter)
  • Bridging (furnishings)
  • CommonBond Communities (Shelter)
  • Community Aid Network MN (Food)
  • Open Arms MN (Food for critically ill)
  • Planned Parenthood
  • Habitat for Humanity
  • Union Gospel Mission
  • Ronald McDonald House
  • Community Kitchen
  • Political Campaign
  • For Goodness Cakes (Foster Kids)
  • Sactuary Supply Depot (Mutual Aid for unhoused)
  • Animal Humane Society
  • Tool Library
  • Walker Art Ctr
  • CANMN (Mutual Aid with language barriers)
  • The Sheridan Story (Child Hunger)
  • Teen Center
  • Your Mom’s House
  • DC Silver Lining
  • The Crisis Nursery (Child Care Drop off)
  • International Institute of MN serving refugees
  • MN Women’s Prison Book Project
  • Listening House
  • Peace House
  • Minneapolis Animal Care and Control
  • Save a Bull Rescue (Dog rescue)
  • People’s Laundry
  • Second Harvest
  • Face 2 Face Health Counseling
  • Boneshaker Books
  • EMT at the University of MN
  • St Croix Trailblazers (Special Needs)
  • Volunteer Match dot Org
  • Local Elementary and Middle Schools
  • Extreme Noise
  • Southside Harm Reduction Center (Crisis Line)
  • The Bitty Kitty Brigade (Foster)
  • Feed my Starving Children
  • NorthPoint Health and Wellness
  • Minneapolis Institute of Art
  • Fairview Hospital
  • Second Harvest (Food Shelf)
  • Twin Cities Walk to end Alzheimers
  • Caring for Cats
  • Abbott Northwestern Hospital
  • Cardz for Kids
  • Junior Achievement
  • Meals on Wheels
  • Cedar Cultural Center
  • Darts
  • The Open Door
  • YouthLink
  • Pet Haven Mn

The benefit to volunteer hours is that at every donation an individual evaluates the worth of their time against the mission at hand. This anarchist form of dispensing goodwill will never exceed the need and hence avoids fraud. It also is given with the lowest possible overhead.