I apologize for the criticism, and I agree with a lot of what you're saying.

However, I want to point out that donating money (and therefore, asking for money) is a somewhat dangerous habit to get into, because it is so very, very fungible (the very essence of fungibleness). I think this is why people sometimes do canned-food drives - even with the weird inefficiencies of collecting and sending canned food instead of money, there's more trust that the money isn't being quietly (or accidentally) diverted into "self-sustaining" efforts - like asking for more money.

In your rhetoric, could you please use more variety - not just money, but also other goods like volunteering time, or a mix of time and money?