Some minor points of interest:
* The Bath Institute of Medical Engineering (BIME) is loaded with charity organizations, as well as genuinely nice people.
* Too big? Well, The Ottawa-Carleton Turkish Students Association (OCTSA) holds an annual charity ball.
* Maybe it wasn’t big enough? The Chiang Industrial Charity Foundation is helping China catch up to the 20th century -- and eventually the 21st.
* And everybody’s heard of CARE, right?
* Even local civil engineering charities count, such as Sustrans, which designs and builds routes for cyclists, walkers and people with disabilities, thereby cutting down urban motor traffic.
* And, since 1871, there has been the Institution of Electrical Engineers, which is the largest professional engineering society in Europe, today holding a global membership of just under 140,000. It’s completely non-profit, and is a registered charity.
* Action Research is continuing to fund the very best in medical research.
* INtegrated SPInal REhabilitation (INSPIRE) is pocked with engineers.
* Remember Chernobyl? I think we’ve got a few engineers in there.
* A little closer to home, we have engineers who have been working around the clock at the site of the World Trade Center. They may or may not be reimbursed for their time and effort. This is called charity. Engineers who donate time to their community, perhaps something as small, but appreciated, as installing a new playground at the local school, are genuine contributors to charity. And you could count scholarship programs for engineering schools, classes and training to be charitable organizations. The playgrounds of the engineers are 3rd world nations, perhaps installing a new hydroelectric plant, water purification system, or a new airport, knowing full well that their remuneration will be in the form of a résumé entry. This is charity.

Naw, real engineers don’t do any of that...

Well, there’s a lot more out there, S_M, but finding them would require you caring enough about anything to actually do the legwork.

Cheers,
Dan