Hey mate its understandable you are freaking out a little. I would definitely suggest starting to do some education on basic finance and investment. Please tho dear god can you not do TWO things...just two things.
One...don't donate your money...donate some for sure, but most organizations generally fail by eating up the lions share of donations through administration costs and other costs of business. So your money gets nowhere...now if you want to make a difference this leads to point two.
Two. PLEASE dear god don't invest all of your money in stagnant safe investments, invest some small portion of your 8 million into starting a business. I don't mean this in order to grow your own wealth...but to help grow that of your community. I don't know where you live...but in Australia...the hoarding of wealth through property and the stock market is basically killing small towns/communities left right and center. Investing money in that doesn't really grow the economies of small towns/communities. Start a business, nothing huge, nothing too fancy, but invest in training you community/small towns! Seriously it will provide a bigger difference to those whom you employ than if you were to give to a charity supposedly servicing them!
One...don't donate your money...donate some for sure, but most organizations generally fail by eating up the lions share of donations through administration costs and other costs of business. So your money gets nowhere...now if you want to make a difference this leads to point two.
Two. PLEASE dear god don't invest all of your money in stagnant safe investments, invest some small portion of your 8 million into starting a business. I don't mean this in order to grow your own wealth...but to help grow that of your community. I don't know where you live...but in Australia...the hoarding of wealth through property and the stock market is basically killing small towns/communities left right and center. Investing money in that doesn't really grow the economies of small towns/communities. Start a business, nothing huge, nothing too fancy, but invest in training you community/small towns! Seriously it will provide a bigger difference to those whom you employ than if you were to give to a charity supposedly servicing them!