Collapsing the evil around you...

True you can not change the world.
But you can heal the universe you experience.
If you have experienced evil in the past or feel that evil is somehow related to your future or you are suffering the influence of an evil decree (basically you are cursed in some way), you can give to charity.
There are curses and there is evil.
True you may not prevent a holocaust of the wicked or a horrible mishap such as a tornado or an earthquake, but the fact lays that if you give to charity, evil is scattered.

So it is now my habit that if I identify an evil in my day or perhaps I have a sin I have not atoned and paid pennance, I must give a charity check to some place that corresponds accordingly to the nature of the evil or the curse that may be in my situation.

This does work and it is philanthropy.  It is always rewarded and you have nothing to feel that you have lost.  What money you spend today will be rewared in even more proportions in some manner in the world to come; at least that is a Jewish belief and my own as well.

I have found that I have been giving to places like Red Crosses, United Ways, Nami's (National Alliance for Mental Illness), Medical Centers, Universities as well as some professional societies and of course a few Jewish charities.   I find that perhaps I may or may not give to a charity in my own town or where I am.  Sometimes in places I have been to or lived in the past.  Just to finalize the situation that I feel my soul has experienced or continues to experience.

Ever had a situation that you can not get off your mind or that recurs in your thoughts from time to time and you just don't feel you got justice?  Give to a charity. 
You will be surprised how much better you may experience your feelings and thoughts in life.
Just a thought.
Either way, it works for me and I do it as I wish.

If you don't have money to give, there is still a way. 
Take a check and write it to a charity and address the envelope and put it in the envelope.  Buy a forever stamp and put that on the envelope.  This way you have committed some finances to the cause and it implies commitment.  Send the payment at your own ability perhaps in a month, perhaps in ten to fifteen years or more. 
This is my policy.  I have payments set up.  I will send at my ability to offer the charity.
So thus, I do believe I get credit in advance for my intentions and thus just have to finalize the arrangement later.  It does take your mind off of the evil that is afflicting you... And if you believe in a G-d or you have some sense of the World to Come, all that you donate here or intend completely to donate is credited to you in the world to come.

So thats that.   And if for some chance you never get the chance to send that check where you had written it to be donated, that is all fine; thus your time has expired and of course your G-d knows you wrote that check and had the intentions to send.  
Thats the best I can do.   With G-d all things are possible.