Wow. Okay, well USD 1 Million at current rates is about 2,668 BTC. (A bit less than the 3000 that someone dreamed of sending to me earlier this week.)
As for charities, I do not know of a single one that equally or fairly distributes supplies to the front line. Yes, they all do something, but as others have said, most of the money goes to other parts of the organization first, Red Cross being an example.
I may be biased, but, I can tell you from first hand experience, that one time, my unit got a 1 Million PHP donation from PCSO (Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office, the one that operates our state lotto system.) And all of that money went to food, medicines, supplies, etc. (I don't have all the receipts, and this happened about 2 or 3 years ago.) It took about a couple of months to finally use up all the funds. In that time frame, we had 2 or 3 activities, every week, all over the country.
So... ... ... there are several foundations here that work. They've all gotten donations in the millions of pesos already.
If you want to send it to an established entity, here are the top candidates:
1. Philippine Red Cross
2. BDO Foundation (Foundation of my bank, owned by the world's richest Filipino, Henry Sy. Google him.)
3. ABS-CBN Kapamilya Foundation
4. GMA Kapuso Foundation
5. Nu Skin Philippine's Force for Good Foundation (this is the one in my other thread that does the Feed The Children thing.)
6. Rotary Club of Ayala Alabang = This one is responsible for the Tuloy Sa Don Bosco foundation, which gets homeless children and puts them through school.
All of the above already get donations in the millions, yearly. They probably just got a few lump sums now, just watching the news. #3 and #4 have their own TV networks, so they like to brag that their numbers are climbing.
If you want to see something different, then send it to the Civil Military Affairs Brigade. It is a military reserve unit, under the Armed Forces of the Philippines Reserve Command, of which I am a part of, but they DO NOT GET any funding whatsoever from the government. NONE.
All members are volunteers, either professionals who have another job during weekdays (doctors, lawyers, accountants, dentists, businessmen) or are retired soldiers.
So the labor is free. The supplies are not.
They do not accept bitcoins directly, and the only person who knows about it, I'm guessing, is me.
I think, it ends up, if you pick my preferred organization, would you entrust Dabs with a million dollars?
I tell you what can happen if you do.
1. I fund all operations of the unit, logistics, gasoline, food, medicines, drugs, supplies, blankets, relief goods, any fees that have to be shouldered.
2. There will be a medical, dental, engineering or other civic affairs / public affairs mission every week (except for holidays.)
3. This amount of money will last, maybe 1 or 2 or 3 years of non-stop activities.
4. All the activities will result in greatly lessening or weakening the insurgents and pocket rebellions where ever we go.
If you want to see pictures of me in a few of those activities, visit my thread. I also posted another youtube link there. I've been doing this since about 2000-ish. Or about 13 years already. (I was the Corps Commander of my ROTC unit back in College.)
I did some googling, and found these others.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL3zJRQXaMkYoutube video of ABS-CBN TV capture, Disaster Relief Capability summary from Lieutenant Colonel Nathaniel Marquez, G3 or Operations Officer of the Brigade. He is also a businessman. The Brigade commander, with the rank of Captain (Philippine Navy) is a medical doctor who owns and runs his own hospital in Tarlac.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armed_Forces_of_the_Philippines_Reserve_CommandUnit is listed there.
http://www.timawa.net/forum/index.php?topic=29489.0Forum thread that talks about the different reserve units doing civic action programs. CMAB is mentioned.
https://www.facebook.com/CMAUMandaluyongFacebook page of Civil Military Affair Unit Mandaluyong City, under the same brigade. I personally know the commander of this unit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5D7D2pqZToSomething fun back in 2008. Before bitcoin existed. (Yes, that is my personal youtube channel. There is nothing there, although I have a slide show where I was one of the instructors for some practical martial arts training.)
There are also links there, I think in the facebook page that tells you how to donate directly to the unit. I'll have no control of the funds if you do that.
However, if I am allowed to handle it, I can make it last as long as I can, maybe a year or longer. Given to people as needed. (And if I may say so, without crashing the market by emptying the shelves of the supermarkets here.)
The unit has access to pharmacies where we get medicines at cost (below retail), and a commissary where we can get a lot of supplies without paying sales tax or value added tax. TAX FREE, or about 12% less that if you bought the exact same thing at the mall.
Worst case scenario, we can always buy the supplies from one of the bigger stores.
I'm the Executive Officer of the 1st CMAG (Group level), as well as a Psy-Ops Team Leader of CMAU Las Pinas. I also run the accounting department of a family owned business which has at least 180 full time employees: I push the buttons that distribute their salaries, you know, internet banking. I also sign the check payments of our major suppliers.
And if you send me the money, I have a platoon of highly trained soldiers who will protect it.
I also had a short discussion with my boss, that if this indeed happens, I will be allowed to leave my office once a week just to do this and make sure all the funds are spent where they should be spent.
I'd also like permission to use part of the money to buy our own ambulance. We can paint the side with the Bitcoin Foundation's logo or whatever. A few pick ups would also be nice. To load all the stuff we plan to give away.
Or you can send it all to the Philippine Red Cross.
