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If an NGO is reputable it will report how much per dollar donated is used for overhead and how much actually goes toward direct effort. I never felt the need, but it probably isn't too hard to do that first level of research.
luscious and I use Amnesty branded checks. and we bought a really nice hemp checkbook from Amnesty, too. I don't know the ins and outs of their specific financial expenditures and such, but our checks have Incite hope and Defend human rights, and free prisoners of conscious, and a picture of clasped hands watermarked across them. so at the end of the day, we've left a message we agree with in someone's till.
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