Charity-Focused Web Site Grants ‘Wishes’ to One Donor at a Time

A charity Web site called Wish Upon a Hero, which is designed to connect people who need help with those who can offer aid, has granted more than 30,000 requests since it got started two years ago, reports USA Today.

Among the wishes it has granted: sending an 89-year-old Pearl Harbor veteran to Hawaii. The group’s founder, Dave Girgenti, said that since the recession hit, the wishes people list have increasingly been for basic needs, such as food or gas money.

Some of the site’s 96,000 active and largely anonymous users term it the “eBay of philanthropy.”