Long Island Veterans Initiative at Farmingdale
https://www.liveteransinitiative.com/ 

This organization works to house homeless veterans, find them jobs, treat their mental illnesses and provide transportation for them. This organization also offers with career counseling services and education benefit/ scholarship management programs. The money donated goes to providing maintenance to the "Vet van", which is the transportation vehicle used to drive the vets all around Long Island, to getting free Met tickets for the vets and to cover medical services that the vets need.  It functions off of volunteer work and donations only.

This is the charity check website
http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.profile&ein=320403144#.VHzv1IcyDLc


Ronald McDonald House of Long Island
http://rmhlongisland.org/mission-vision/

This organization provides homes and counseling services to the families of sick children; while the kids are staying at hospitals, the House pays for the families "home away from home". This organization also helps cover hospital expenses and allows for the families and the sick children to be around others like them.The website has many different donating options.

This is the charity check website
http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=9347#.VHz4EIcyDLc


Heifer International
http://www.heifer.org/

This organization focuses on ending poverty and world hunger by allowing people to buy a goat, a cow or some chickens online to send to a poor country. This allows for the family who receives the animal to use the milk, or eggs they create, to feed themselves. The Heifer website allows you to see what families you helped and where your donation would be most effective. You can pick the animals and locations and also see what donating a chicken versus a goat can do for the family.

Charity check
http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=3809#.VHz7kYcyDLc