If you won the Megabucks...

[zanana1]

Which charity would you give to first, and how much?

[Zoonart]

1. Doctors without borders first.

then the ACLU, a lot of protesters are going to go to jail before this is over...then selected animal rescue orgs. Finally, I would set up an arts scholarship.

[appleannie1943]

2. Build tiny homes for the homeless, Hope for Paws and other no kill shelters, and donate to local

food banks that operate strictly from charity and donations to feed people in small communities. The one closest to me runs a new to you shop with volunteers selling clothing and small items donated to them to fund the food bank next door that is open a couple days a week and run by volunteers.

[left-of-center2012]

3. Charity begins at home, someone has said

I'd first help family and friends.

As for an 'organized' charity,
'Diabetes Action Research and Education Foundation'

https://www.charitywatch.org/ratings-and-metrics/diabetes-action-research-and-education-foundation/307

[Submariner]

4. Most everything to Africa's Volunteer Park Rangers

that risk their lives daily hunting down and killing poachers of elephants, rhino and mountain gorillas.

Many of these wildlife protectors are murdered themselves by poachers, and the surviving families end up poor and destitute.

[Soxfan58]

5. My local food bank.

And it would depend on how much I got.

[zanana1]

6. I'd give to my friends first.

I'd give a big bunch of it to the local animal shelter so they could build on to it and then some to the Alzheimer's foundation. Of course, I'd keep some for myself. I'm not a saint.

[Callalily]

7. Homeless shelters, women's shelters and food pantries

are high on my list.

Of course, take care of family too.

[smirkymonkey]

12. That would be my choice.

Also, Planned Parenthood, disaster relief orgs., animal shelters and educational charities.

[A HERETIC I AM]

8. One of the things I had thought I would do is endow my old High School with a music program

structured to be perpetual, ie; via an investment trust, so that interested students would be supplied with musical instruments for low or no cost. It would also cover the cost of the salary of one or more music teachers, if the district didn't supply one. $5 million in a portfolio yielding 4 to 5% should do it easily.

When I was in elementary school and Jr. High back in the 60's and 70's, school districts commonly had music programs. It's my understanding that those are few and far between these days.

Other giving would be to organizations like Safesipp which addresses the critical issue of clean drinking water in the developing world.

[NickB79]

9. Anyone working on climate change resiliency

Because I believe we've crossed the threshold where we can no longer stop it, only blunt the worst of it from killing billions in the next century.

Also, buy thousands of acres of farmland, rent out portions of it to small, organic growers, and spend the next 50 years converting the rest into restored oak savanna, wetlands, hardwood forest and prairie (the native ecosystems that used to exist here).

[Tikki]

10. Homeless teens and homeless animals.

Tikki

[Generic Brad]

11. Scholarships

I would anonymously establish a scholarship fund at the university and graduate school I attended to fund seniors who have run out of money. An anonymous donor awarded me $500 in my senior year. That allowed me to graduate and go onto the graduate school I had been accepted to. That $500 cash award allowed me to eat for 3 months. Had that not happened, I might have been forced to drop out and my future would have taken a wildly different path.

[TexasBushwhacker]

13. There are so many, but Planned Parenthood would top my list n/t