Does anyone know of a good service or plan of attack for donating to charity through a REST API?<p>I'm writing an Amazon Lambda job that will run every week, check how days that week I committed to GitHub, and charge me money if I'm not keeping up with my goal. I could just have it send me angry emails or something, but I think having real money on the line will keep me motivated.<p>I don't want to have money go to waste or anything, so I think a nice use of it would be to give it to a charity. However, I haven't yet found an easy way to go about this. Has anyone faced a similar challenge and found a good solution? Most everything I've found is about solutions for the charities themselves, which isn't what I'm going for.
You might be able to pull off the payments side using cryptocurrencies. Check out the CharityCoin directory for Bitcoin addresses: <a href="https://github.com/charitycoin/directory" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/charitycoin/directory</a>. You also might want to check in with the Stellar folks (<a href="http://slack.stellar.org/" rel="nofollow">http://slack.stellar.org/</a>). They're working on some cool international projects dealing with financial inclusion, though there's a good chance you'll have to build the necessary connections to the Stellar network yourself.
Why don't you simply pick a bunch of charities you like and donate to them? I don't think spreading it thin across too many organizations makes a lot of sense. Even if you were to donate $100k per year, why not make it $100k to one project you really like?