We have a good system in my small town, we support each other, donate at the food bank, if a farmer loses his barn, there are 5 farmers to come and house his cows until he can rebuild, if a family loses their home, it is the community that comes together, and always has. It is the best part of old traditions of New England, and although Vermont is seen as a blue state, it is really purple. Large organizations always take an enormous amount of donated money to put into administration. those tv ads for charities are not given away, they cost as much in a year to rehome several families that may have suffered a loss through illness or fire. Early America saw the churches as the way to help people, to come together, and people will. I give locally.