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by sam1r 2136 days ago
Instead of wishing & typing this out here + moving on, and then feeling worse the next time -- try messaging the publication and ask for a way. At least you can say you did what you could.

Bonus - if you are able to do so successfully, come back here and link it.
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spanhandler 2136 days ago
Heh, think the guy has Venmo? That'd be handy. Yeah maybe I'll try an email tomorrow.
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schoen 2136 days ago
You could also consider

https://www.givedirectly.org/

although the circumstances they allow you to help with might not be the exact ones that first attracted your interest and concern.

Edit: although I think they do share, and allow people to act on, something pretty much like your intuition:

> How much help even $100 would be some of these places, if only it could get there.

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spanhandler 2136 days ago
> although the circumstances they allow you to help with might not be the exact ones that first attracted your interest and concern.

Yeah, well, I'm human enough to have those impulses but also know it's good to help anyone, really, and that satisfying myself isn't the point. So thanks for the link, I'll check them out.

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