Perhaps, start a charity to take care of, sterilize and - if necessary - euthanize abandoned pets. Their lives can be nothing but torture and they can do nothing to change their fate.

Why just stick to the pets? I'd start with the irresponsible owners.

All my childhood dogs came from a rescue home place in the UK. Called 'Last Chance' Animal rescue. The woman and young daughter at one point lived in a caravan next to the main road, small pound. Her dogs she had spayed/snipped and she used to train them perfectly - too perfectly.. It took about a month to untrain our black Alsatian from keeping its head on your outer thigh when you went for a walk!!

Anyway...

Somebody left her land in a will, she built a bigger rescue place, then one day a Texan millionaire appeared... that was that... life of luxury in America now, and I think running something there...

My current charities are environmental organizations (the ones I consider sane, that is), sponsoring a young girl,  and Doctors without Borders.

With $10 million, though, I would have to re-look at things.  I worked with micro-loans in Iraq after studying them in Palestine, and I am a firm believer in them.  Maybe I would set up something like that.  $10 million is not so much, really, but it could certainly make a difference.  

I also have a pet concern in the Philippines.  While I know women are forced into prostitution from abject poverty all around the world, I have seen this first-hand in the Philippines.  I also believe, rightly or wrongly, that prostitution in Thailand, while it can be a last-ditch effort for survival, tends to be more of a free choice here than in some other countries.  So a foundation for Filipinas to help some of these women gain alternatives has always been at the back of my mind (I know that women in many other countries are faced with the same choice for survival--it is just that I don't have many ties to any of those other countries.)

My third option would be for the Thai Winter Olympics team.  I am an Olympicsophile, and I love the idea of participants from all nations.  $10 million would be more than enough to hold tryouts, then sponsor a handful of athletes in some sports such as luge, skeleton, or biathalon.  Having a Thai place in the top 20, let's say, in skeleton, for example, would be a huge success, and show that the Winter Olympics are just as international as the summer.

I couldn't do all three with only $10 million, though.  How about giving me $30 million?

My current charities are environmental organizations (the ones I consider sane, that is), sponsoring a young girl, and Doctors without Borders.

With $10 million, though, I would have to re-look at things. I worked with micro-loans in Iraq after studying them in Palestine, and I am a firm believer in them. Maybe I would set up something like that. $10 million is not so much, really, but it could certainly make a difference.

I also have a pet concern in the Philippines. While I know women are forced into prostitution from abject poverty all around the world, I have seen this first-hand in the Philippines. I also believe, rightly or wrongly, that prostitution in Thailand, while it can be a last-ditch effort for survival, tends to be more of a free choice here than in some other countries. So a foundation for Filipinas to help some of these women gain alternatives has always been at the back of my mind (I know that women in many other countries are faced with the same choice for survival--it is just that I don't have many ties to any of those other countries.)

My third option would be for the Thai Winter Olympics team. I am an Olympicsophile, and I love the idea of participants from all nations. $10 million would be more than enough to hold tryouts, then sponsor a handful of athletes in some sports such as luge, skeleton, or biathalon. Having a Thai place in the top 20, let's say, in skeleton, for example, would be a huge success, and show that the Winter Olympics are just as international as the summer.

I couldn't do all three with only $10 million, though. How about giving me $30 million?

Yeah...10 mill was an arbitrary and more realistic windfall. Definitely, the more the better.

Shades of the Jamaican bobsled team! Also my form 2 woodwork teacher in Fiji, Sakiusa Waqa....apparently he represented Fiji in cross country skiing (pre-1976), the only Fijian to ever compete in the winter olympics.....wasn't there a Ghanain competing in the 2010 winter olympics? Slalom or speed???

Personally, I feel sport, liesure, and entertainment, whilst having their important place in society, are a lower priority to hunger, education, human traficking and health in the context of where the money should go.....but each to his own.

I think micro-loans are an excellent idea to get to the grassroots of many of society's problems....micro-loans go hand in hand with "give a man a fish, you fed him for a day. Teach a man to fish (and give him a loan to buy a net), and you have fed him for life.

I think micro-loans need to be accompanied by specific education (best-practice, saving, planning, expanding etc).

There was a Moroccan (or was he Indian) who did the slalom a few years ago - it took him about 20 minutes to do it, but he made it. And the winner, i think was an italian, ran out and put him on his shoulders for having got down without falling.

Yes, sports is another way to send money. But the main are - water, education, food etc. and mosquitoe nets.

1. I would give my $10 million to the Sarah Palin for President campaign fund, simply to watch the liberals on this forum spin in the wind.

2. Seriously, Naam, Good on 'ya for your good deeds. It is a very commendable action.

1. an excellent idea Chuck if... she'd use the money to educate herself. but then 10 million would hardly be enough

2. most of you exaggerate because you look at the absolute amount my wife and me are spending. but in my view it is the relative amount what should be judged. besides, i am only applying a fraction of the money for charity which fate, lucky circumstances or being the right man in the right place at the right time have provided.

years ago we sponsored a little girl and a little boy in Viet Nam (starting at their age 5 or 6). when they were approximately 10 we went to visit them and were told that we could only meet them in the presence of a guardian although we brought our own vietnamese interpreter. i was extremely disappointed because the children looked at the "guardian" for approval before answering any question and my wife became raving mad when we were told that this was to protect the children from potential pedophiles. ah well, it was not the children's fault. we met the girl again when she was 16 but lost contact with the boy.

My current charities are environmental organizations (the ones I consider sane, that is), sponsoring a young girl, and Doctors without Borders.

With $10 million, though, I would have to re-look at things. I worked with micro-loans in Iraq after studying them in Palestine, and I am a firm believer in them. Maybe I would set up something like that. $10 million is not so much, really, but it could certainly make a difference.

I also have a pet concern in the Philippines. While I know women are forced into prostitution from abject poverty all around the world, I have seen this first-hand in the Philippines. I also believe, rightly or wrongly, that prostitution in Thailand, while it can be a last-ditch effort for survival, tends to be more of a free choice here than in some other countries. So a foundation for Filipinas to help some of these women gain alternatives has always been at the back of my mind (I know that women in many other countries are faced with the same choice for survival--it is just that I don't have many ties to any of those other countries.)

My third option would be for the Thai Winter Olympics team. I am an Olympicsophile, and I love the idea of participants from all nations. $10 million would be more than enough to hold tryouts, then sponsor a handful of athletes in some sports such as luge, skeleton, or biathalon. Having a Thai place in the top 20, let's say, in skeleton, for example, would be a huge success, and show that the Winter Olympics are just as international as the summer.

I couldn't do all three with only $10 million, though. How about giving me $30 million?

Yeah...10 mill was an arbitrary and more realistic windfall. Definitely, the more the better.

Shades of the Jamaican bobsled team! Also my form 2 woodwork teacher in Fiji, Sakiusa Waqa....apparently he represented Fiji in cross country skiing (pre-1976), the only Fijian to ever compete in the winter olympics.....wasn't there a Ghanain competing in the 2010 winter olympics? Slalom or speed???

Personally, I feel sport, liesure, and entertainment, whilst having their important place in society, are a lower priority to hunger, education, human traficking and health in the context of where the money should go.....but each to his own.

I think micro-loans are an excellent idea to get to the grassroots of many of society's problems....micro-loans go hand in hand with "give a man a fish, you fed him for a day. Teach a man to fish (and give him a loan to buy a net), and you have fed him for life.

I think micro-loans need to be accompanied by specific education (best-practice, saving, planning, expanding etc).

The "Snow Leopard," Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong, skied the salom at the Olympics.  SInce Eddie the Eagle, it has been much arder for the "tourist Olympians" to compete, and Kwame actually had to finish high enough in other races to qualify.

As far as whether sports should not get money in an imaginary grant while more "worthy" causes would, well, that is pretty humorous to me.  This is all make believe, after all.   

Micro-loans do not need any specific education, at least according to history.  Giving a Palestinian woman a $100 loan so she can buy a new sewing machine does not rely on her having an MBA.  THe skill to sew is pretty much it.  I spent quite a bit of time with the man who started the first program for Palestinian women while preparing to set up a similar system in Iraq through USAID.  How his people gave out loans would probably make a US loan officer squirm, but he had over a 98% repayment rate.  I believe that  Muhammad Yunus, who won the Nobel Peace prize for his micro-loan programs he started in Bangladesh, reported similar successes.

If I had $10 Million....

I'd like to think I'd do the same as George Best.

Spend a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squander.

Edited to put tongue in cheek. It's so unlikely to happen that if the "problem arises" I'll give it some thought after the heart-attack.

If I had $10 Million....

I'd like to think I'd do the same as George Best.

Spend a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squander.

Actually, we all would.

I would be told to give it back.....!!!!!!!

So the rule of this game is that I must donate the money - somehow - to charity? Well, charity begins at home, so I would set up a scheme that resulted in at least 90% coming back to myself (charges for services rendered, costs, etc) - just like any other legitimate charity.

I'd be told........

"Give it back where it came from."

I think I would use at least part of the money to pay off the mother from the 6 year old boy I take care for so she couldn't change her mind about every other day as the wind blows.

Well we needed a song to go along with this -

And they are Canadian!!