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We Don’t Want Mark Zuckerberg’s Charity
Every dollar in Mark Zuckerberg’s private charity is a dollar wrested from public coffers — and democratic control.
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How to Vet Nonprofits Before You Give
Using ProPublica’s Nonprofit Explorer and a charity’s own documents, you can make a more informed giving decision.
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Why One Minnesota Couple Donated $500,000 to Salvation Army
More than Black Friday or Cyber Monday, The Salvation Army’s iconic and ubiquitous red donation kettles, accompanied by bell-ringing volunteers, signify that the holiday season is upon us.
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The Buy-One-Give-One Model Might Make You Feel Good, But It Doesn't Make The World Better
Your socially conscious purchasing decisions don't mitigate your place in a destructive global system.
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MSF Demands Explanations After Deadly Airstrikes Hit Hospital in Kunduz
Kabul/Brussels. 3 October 2015: The international medical organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) condemns in the strongest possible terms the horrific aerial bombing of its hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan. Twelve staff members and at least 10 patients, including three children, were killed; 37 people were injured including 19 staff members. This attack constitutes a grave violation of International Humanitarian Law.
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Adam Ruins Everything - Why You Shouldn't Donate Canned Food to Charities
Hunger is a real problem, but canned food drives are a terrible solution. Adam explains why. In Adam Ruins Everything, host Adam Conover employs a combination of comedy, history and science to dispel widespread misconceptions about everything we take for granted. A blend of entertainment and enlightenment, Adam Ruins Everything is like that friend who knows a little bit too much about everything and is going to tell you about it... whether you like it or not.
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Jared Padalecki's "Always Keep Fighting" Campaign Is Already Doing Good
We've already heard so much about Jared Padalecki's "Always Keep Fighting" campaign — he's talked about his own struggle with depression, he's shared plenty of inspiring quotes, and he's even revealed how fans have helped him along.
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Against Charity - Rather than creating an individualized “culture of giving,” we should be challenging capitalism’s institutionalized taking.
Imagine you came across a child drowning in a small pond and you were the only one around to help. You could easily save the child by wading in, although doing so would ruin your clothing and shoes. But if you don’t, the child will die. It’s a no-brainer — you should save the child. Would the answer be any different if there were others around who could also help? No. Should it make any difference if the desperate child wasn’t directly in front of you? No.
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Volunteers seek old bikes to make homemade wheelchairs for disabled kids
Gold Coast volunteers who convert old bicycles into wheelchairs for disabled children overseas feel deflated as they struggle to source old bikes.
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Alice Glass Releases "Stillbirth," Opens Up About Abusive Relationship
"I was talked down to, yelled at, locked into rooms and criticized daily."
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European Parliament urges donation of supermarket leftovers
The European Parliament on Thursday (9 July) urged EU countries to cut down on waste by getting supermarkets to give their unsold food to charities, rather than destroy it.
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The Logic of Effective Altruism
Opening the Debate: Peter Singer. Responding: Daron Acemoglu, Angus Deaton, Jennifer Rubenstein, Larissa MacFarquhar, Leila Janah, Emma Saunders-Hastings, Rob Reich, Paul Brest, Iason Gabriel, András Miklós, Catherine Tumber. Reply: Peter Singer.
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Vodafone 'Instant Classroom' is digital school in a box for refugees (Wired UK)
The Vodafone Foundation has unveiled a portable "Instant Classroom" that it hopes will give 15,000 child refugees across Africa access to tablet-based education.
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Girl Scouts Looking for $100K After Donor Says They Can't Use Gift for Transgender Girls
So the organization gave the money back. And now they want your help.
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The Most Efficient Way to Save a Life
Inspired to make a meaningful donation, I wondered: What is the best charitable cause in the world, and was it crazy to think that math and logic could help me find it?
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Tesco trials app for donating unsold food to charity
It's strange to think that in an affluent nation like the UK, there are people going hungry while shops and eateries throw out masses of perfectly good food every day.
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A chinese businessman is paying $2.35 million to eat lunch with Warren Buffett
The auction has gotten progressively more expensive.
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Red Cross Spent Half a Billion Dollars to Build Six Homes in Haiti
Despite taking in more than $500 million in donations, the Red Cross has only built six houses in Haiti. The American Red Cross raised more than half a billion dollars to bring relief to Haiti after the devastating 2010 earthquake there, but it grossly overstated what the money bought. Although the organization claimed to have provided housing to more than 130,000 people, it actually only built six permanent homes, according to a report by ProPublica and NPR.
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Students Celebrate Graduation With Random Acts of Kindness
With $400 in hand and a stack of note cards explaining their intentions, a group of eight eighth-graders from St. John the Baptist-Gildehaus School in Villa Ridge went around Washington Friday, May 22, performing random acts of kindness as a way to celebrate their graduation.
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'They would call me a girl': Boy, 8, grows out hair for a good cause
Eight-year-old Christian McPhilamy grew out his blond hair for more than two years so he could donate it to kids who have lost their locks.
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