portraitoftheoddity:

I really love thinking about all the Avengers having their charity work pet projects. 

Of course, Steve does a lot for Veterans’ affairs and the wounded warrior project, often teaming up with Sam and Rhodey for fundraising and events. He additionally contributes to raising awareness for PTSD. But he also spends a lot of time going to schools and talking to at-risk kids, and setting up after school art programs in low-income neighborhoods, volunteering and giving drawing lessons in civilian clothes. 

Natasha keeps her work on the down-low, but she contributes money and intelligence to groups that help rescue human trafficking victims, saving women and girls from slavery and prostitution around the globe. She’s not going to stand around while other little girls get their childhoods stolen like she had hers stolen, after all. 

Hulk has appeared in a number of environmental campaigns (”Go Green!” has a whole new meaning when the Other Guy is bellowing it at you), but Bruce’s real passion project is setting up a network of halfway houses for women and children fleeing domestic violence situations. 

Clint isn’t so good with the organized charity stuff, but he donates regularly to the ASPCA (because aww, dogs), and he’ll often just grab a bunch of homeless folks up from off the street and take them all out for pizza, or to a greasy spoon diner, because who doesn’t like diner food? 

Thor appears on TV to get people to give to natural disaster relief efforts; he also personally helps in cases of raging forest or bushfires, summoning rain to combat the blazes. (A major national suicide hotline also receives an anonymous donation of very strange gold coins…)

Tony has a lot going on with the Stark Industries charitable funds, both for disaster relief in areas struck by super-villainy, and for helping refugees in war-torn regions. He also has a program set up in partnership with a number of schools to improve math and science education, to provide more kids with the opportunities he took for granted growing up. And as a birthday present to Pepper one year, he sets up the Virginia Potts Scholarship for Enterprising Young Women. Pepper, in turn, helps to establish the Maya Hanson Memorial Fund, covering full college tuition for a select few recipients to study in STEM fields. 

And all of them appear together on The Daily Show to help Jon Stewart push for a bill providing health care to the first responders at the Battle of New York.