Which progressive groups do the most with our donations?

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

I have limited ability to engage in direct action. I also have limited finances, but I make small donations when I can. However, it is very hard to decide which groups to donate to.

The volume of emails I get from progressive groups continues to grow to the point where some days I just delete it all without reading. On the days when I do read it, I sign just about all of the petitions they ask me to, though I'm not sure it does any good.

Is there any way to know which groups are most successful in accomplishing progressive goals? I am quite far left on most issues, so I lean toward groups such as MoveOn, Bold Progressives, Left Action, etc.

Not that my tiny contributions matter that much anyway, but I'd still like to know.

[grilled onions]

1. While You Ponder The Larger Groups...

check on what is going on locally. Small potatoes it's not since we also have to deal with bad decisions and ultra conservative ideas and plots on just about every street corner. It may be as simple as a group who is trying to clean up a river--trash at first but then it may be that polluters up stream may be a bigger problem. Through these kind of connections which you may be able to do a lot or only help make posters you will hear about groups they truly believe in. It is a good start. Stay liberal!

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

2. I've done anti-war things with the local Friends group and worked the phones some for Obama.

But, due to circumstances beyond my control, I'm not able to do much of that sort of thing these days.

One thing I will always so is stay liberal.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

3. Maybe I should have posted this in the activism group. Surely some DUers have opinions, perhaps

even facts, on the various groups.