On the gripping hand from my earlier post today, there's this: I really believe in true charity. The word can be translated as love, and sometimes the best way you can love and help someone is cold hard cash. Sometimes good people get into bad situations.
Also, I am a woman of faith, and part of my faith requires 1. Stewardship of what I am given and 2. Giving to the needy. Since I am not currently part of an organized body where tithing and giving would be handled through that body (and my skepticism over that handling is part of why I am not part of such a thing), I keep my eyes open for ways to help where I can.
Like this, where a friend of mine has wound up in an absurdly improbably awful situation. Struck by lightning, struggling to work, and insurance not covering heart surgery for nonsense. If you can help, please consider it.
Or my old friend and writing mentor, who had been caught in the iron jaws of bureaucracy and may lose everything... they live off the land, and very close to the bone. He's in desperate need of a piece of specialized equipment, and he hasn't asked for help but you know what? Tough. Helping anyway. Some humans are just good, through and through, and you want to help where you can.
Some rando asking for a handout? Blindly hucking money in the direction of a giant 'charity'? That's not good stewardship. Giving strategically where I know a little will make a big difference? Yes. That's the way.