Hair donation

So, I was inspired by my friend, Cassanna, who is growing her hair to donate to be made into a wig for children who need it and I started doing some research and there seems to be quite a few charities out there that do the hair donation..

After several hours of researching, I've decided I want to donate to this one: http://www.childrenwithhairloss.us/
I found that some of the organizations donate only to alopecia and/or cancer, which are the major causes of hair loss in children, but the Children With Hairloss gives wigs also for burn victims and other medical causes...
It seems to have a good reputation too, http://www.scam.com/showthread.php?t=7092 and it looks like alot of people have reported having received their hair pieces for their kids from this org very easily and fast (with Locks of Love having a reputation of a long waitlist).. which is understandable from what i've been reading with Locks of Love, they've gotten so much publicity, they're getting bombarded with tons of donations and apparently don't have alot of staff so wait lists are long...

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/06/fashion/06locks.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
http://badhairday.typepad.com/bad_hair_day/2006/07/locks_of_love_i.html
http://msgboard.snopes.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=21;t=001082;p=0
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locks_of_Love


it's understandable that not all the hair donated will be usable for wigs, but it seems that Locks of Love are not using all the usable hair either cuz they get too many donations.. it seems like they get too many donations and are selling the hair for cash instead, which isn't necessarily bad because they are funding research and such, but then the original intention of making wigs to donate for kids is not being focused on... so it's not like they're a total scam or anything, i think they're just getting too big... and it seems alot of their money is going towards public relations and promotion....


There's some other organizations:
http://www.pantene.com/en-US/beautiful_lengths.jspx ---Hillary Swank donated to them and did this whole campaign thing... i didn't find any controversial info about them
http://www.wigsforkids.org/ -- seems to be a good org.. i didn't see any controversial info about them...
http://www.clf4kids.org/donate_hair.html