- we're not trying to attract converts by saying "Look how compassionate we are; we're the best religion"
- why replicate the work of large secular charities? It would only increase administration costs and decrease the amount that actually reaches the people who need help
- we're not big enough to organise our own charities
We may need Pagan charities for causes that we care about that no-one else cares about; and these are the charities that Pagans have started.
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I agree with all of your points.
I do like the idea of trying to make donations in the name of the local Pagan community, though. I think Pax brought up that suggestion over at The Wild Hunt. Again, it's a way of demonstrating that we are there doing our bit, though I do have mixed feelings about that.
There are a number of pagan charities in existence:
http://www.circlesanctuary.org/liberty/pagancharitywork.html
Some of those are probably duplicated here:
http://www.witchvox.com/lx/lx_charity.html
More here: http://pagantheologies.pbwiki.com/Pagan-friendly+charities
Pagan Scholarships:
http://www.angelfire.com/ia/Geoff/pagan.html (about 1/3 of the page down, some may have been discontinued)
http://www.flybynightbookstore.com/scholarships.html
http://www.witchvox.com/vn/vn_detail/dt_gno.html?id=13434
http://nyc-ppp.org/html/mjms.html
My personal favorite pagan charity: Act of Kindness
There are others, but it seems that a lot of folk do not know about them.
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