If you had $10,000,000

I would split the money between various animal groups (especially those focused on TNR efforts), charities that feed hungry children and the homeless, and charities for people who have been abused.

I would consult a financial advisor, and set up a bunch of trusts in addition to making some large immediate donations.

My dues are high, and there are many that I need to help in my life. Food pantry donations would be high on the priority list, and setting up a fund to help with heating costs for single, working moms would be neat.

There is too much good I would do...I can't begin to cover the scope of it here.

Spread it around...spread it around!

hmmm, 10 mil is a lot of dinero! of course money would go to agencies that help cats. I think I would give money to something associated with cancer research too, and to places that help children with AIDS.

Through my best friend's work at the cancer society's national call center, I've become painfully aware that people in this wealthy country are dying every hour of every day just because they cannot pay for lifesaving treatment.

I believe this to be the very lowest of evils, a despicable moral crime against humanity.

So with my ten million, I would establish an investment-funded agency to assist anyone in a life-and-death crisis who is either uninsured and unable to pay, or a victim of insurance-company malfeasance.

We would provide the following for such patients:

1. Treatment. Immediately. We would focus on saving the patient's life and work out the details later.

2. Legal assistance in requiring insurance companies to operate honorably. When they don't, we would pursue punitive damages of such magnitude that the insurance industry would soon come to consider it more profitable to live up to their responsibilities than to systematically dodge them.

3. General assistance throughout the healing process as needed, possibly including a skilled aide during treatment and convalescence, transportation to medical appointments, in-home medical equipment and supplies, in-home nursing care, mentor counseling, and household help like shopping, banking, cooking, and laundry.

I've thought about this concept for a long time. To be effective, it would have to be extremely well-funded, well-staffed, and light on its feet.

Ten million would barely get it started -- but I hope it wouldn't have to exist for very long. I hope that, by demonstrating a more humane attitude toward medical care, my agency would help move this country to a universal healthcare system within a decade.

And all my employees would have this on their bumperstickers and lapel pins:

HEALTHCARE IS A HUMAN RIGHT.

Are there any billionaires on the site who would like to invest in this concept?

I would use it to buy the much needed addition, wait, I'd just build an entire new building for the shelter. A puppy room. Indoor/outdoor kennels instead of a community backyard. A big fenced backyard. Cat rooms with not wire cages. A community cat room. A bigger quarantine room. And a nursery for mommas & babies.

Much of it would go to St Jude Research hospital, which is my favorite charity. And of course to animal charities and Cancer society and Abused Women/Children charities.

I got a list...
I'd pay all of our bills off, pay the next month's rent, get our car fixed, put some in savings, give a million to the nearest humane society, a million to a charity, a million to cancer research, a million to better adoption centers (that's personal), a million to the Red Cross and a million to help families of fallen soldiers.

Did you guys hear that someone won the $300,000,000 lottery?!

I would give alot of it to animal rescues. Mainly 2 around here that have helped me alot. They are angels and are a big help to strays and ferals (most wont take in the strays around here or help as much as they could). They help alot of them get spayed and neutered too.

I would give some of it to a wild life rehab center around here.

Some to the ASPCA.

I would like to start a wilf life rehab that takes in unwanted or neglected parrots, dogs, cats and farm animals too.

This is really hard, you could do a lot of good with that sort of money.
I think I would set up some sort of Education trust, literacy is important in helping people to think for themselves, and improve their lives.

Originally Posted by white cat lover

I would use it to buy the much needed addition, wait, I'd just build an entire new building for the shelter. A puppy room. Indoor/outdoor kennels instead of a community backyard. A big fenced backyard. Cat rooms with not wire cages. A community cat room. A bigger quarantine room. And a nursery for mommas & babies.

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We are finally getting one of those here It is being built as we speak and we are moving into it next year!

Originally Posted by StacyD1987

I got a list...

I'd pay all of our bills off, pay the next month's rent, get our car fixed, put some in savings, ...

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You can't give it to yourself (I know I am mean!)

Originally Posted by icklemiss21

to help others in the world (you can't spend it on yourself, sorry) what charity / group of people / country / whatever would you choose to help

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I would donate it to a friend and High Preistess to start her dream; A Pagan Church.

Originally Posted by icklemiss21

We are finally getting one of those here

It is being built as we speak and we are moving into it next year!



You can't give it to yourself

(I know I am mean!)

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Well I have figured out this problem.

Ten million is a lot of money.

A lot of money has to go into a bank.

Banks give interest. On even five million, a quarters interest is a good sum of money.

Since the interest of the monies was never figured into the question. Peeps are free to do with it what they will.

I would donate to breast cancer (for the women in my family... grandma and aunt), AIDS (for my grandpa who contacted it threw a blood transfusion, and passed away a year later... in the 80's) and for heart disease (for my dad's whole side of the family... they have all passed on and my grandfather (the one who got aids) also had bad heart issues). I would also donate to the humane society. Ill have to think of some others to add.

I would donate the entire thing to the Heart and Stroke foundation. My mom had a stroke about 4 years ago, and my dad had 2 massive heart attacks on August 16 and 17 this year and passed away from the second one. I also know of 2 other people who have passed away in the last 2 weeks from heart attacks (and all 3 people were 48 years old). My grandpa passed away 3 years ago after having close to 20 heart attacks in his life. My moms neighbour had a heart attack too, but she pulled through and is doing really good now.

I think I would split it 3 ways between the American Cancer Society, The Humane Society, and the Muscular Dystrophy Association b/c my little brother has it and I would love for someone to find a cure!!

I'd give some to the ASPCA, and some to help build a No-Kill shelter, and some for help for Disabled people.