What to Do with a Lot of Money

If I was to receive $3,000,000 and had to spend it in one month, what I would do is this. First, I would donate forty-five percent of the money to various charities, then I would take another thirty percent and use it to help out my family, and finally what I would do with the last twenty- five percent of the money is buy a few things that I would need. Whatever I do not use of my twenty- five percent will go to charity.

$3,000,000 is an impressive amount of money. How would somebody be able to spend that much on themselves, when there are people and animals out there suffering from disease and homelessness, and not feel bad about it? That is why the first thing I would do is take forty-five percent of that money and give it to charity. That is $1,350,000 that I would be giving away to help people and animals in need. It is very hard to choose which charities to give to, because they all do excellent work, but I will list the top ten that I would give to. The first charity I would give to would be the Make-A-Wish Foundation, because they help make sick children’s dreams come true every day. Another charity I would give to would be the Jeff Gordon Children’s Foundation, which is dedicated to helping children with cancer and helping to find a cure. The founder, Jeff Gordon, and several other big names such as Bill Clinton, travelled to Rwanda, Africa to help treat children over there and to build a hospital so they can have better care over there. The next charity would be the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation. Although I do not know anybody who has suffered through this disease, I have seen what it can do, and it is heartbreaking, just as much as watching children and adults suffer through cancer. Other charities I w...

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... one dollar whenever I see a jar or a place to donate money. So, with the money I have left I would buy a log cabin in the middle of the woods and a truck. After I buy those two things, I would take the rest of that money and I would donate even more to money to various charities. If that makes me crazy, then so be it.

Money these days is really hard to come by. So being able to win the lottery or somehow receive $3,000,000 would be a miracle and a blessing that I would be forever thankful for. I would use at least seventy- five percent of my money to give to various charities and to help my family. I would use the other twenty-five percent to buy what I need. Once I do that I will take the rest of the money from my percentage and give it to various charities. As John Dye once said “There are possibilities for goodness in a world that is very filled with turmoil.”