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Why the Rich Aren’t Good at Giving
Philanthropy can be a difficult subject. The simple view is that any giving is a laudable sacrifice. But there is a more complex view that weighs a charity’s mission and the giver’s self-interest before assigning praise or gratitude.
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My 13-Year Effort to Save a Boy in Haiti
As a teenager, I began sponsoring a poverty-stricken boy in the Caribbean. Twelve years and thousands of dollars later I flew down to meet him—and to learn if my efforts did any good at all.
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Lady Gaga’s charity short on actual charity
The nonprofit — which took in $2.65 million in revenue — paid out a staggering $406,552 for legal fees, $300,000 for “strategic development” and $150,000 for “philanthropic consulting,” the latest filings show. Total expenses came to $1.85 million. Among all that, the foundation paid out a single $5,000 grant.
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Haiti's Shadow Sanitation System
Russell Leon works under the cover of darkness as part of a small crew sworn to secrecy. He is a bayakou, a manual laborer who empties the cesspools that collect deep bogs of human waste under Haiti’s back-yard latrines. In a country with no working sewers and roads that are often too ramshackle for tanker trucks, he is the sanitation infrastructure, charged with climbing down into concrete or earthen holes and scooping out the ordure with a plastic bucket.
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The Super-Rich Want to Help The Poor As Long As They Get to Run the World
Billionaires like Warren Buffett are obsessed with helping the bottom rung of society—but only because they’re so rich and powerful it won’t threaten their control of the economy.
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Why giving away our wealth has been the most satisfying thing we've done
In 1993, Bill and Melinda Gates—then engaged—took a walk on a beach in Zanzibar, and made a bold decision on how they would make sure that their wealth from Microsoft went back into society. In a conversation with Chris Anderson, the couple talks about their work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, as well as about their marriage, their children, their failures and the satisfaction of giving most of their wealth away.
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African Poachers Beware: Billionaire Brandishes His Wallet
On a visit to Tanzania, Howard G. Buffett, the elder son of American investor and philanthropist Warren Edward Buffett, Thursday pledged to provide a helicopter for surveillance of poachers in the Selous Game Reserve. Through the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, a private foundation in the United States that he heads, the American billionaire also will support capacity building and anti-poaching efforts in Tanzania
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Alibaba's founders set up charitable trust seen valued at $3 bln
The founders of Chinese internet company Alibaba Group Holding Ltd have set up a charitable trust focusing on the environment and health that could be worth as much as $3 billion, making it one of the biggest in Asia.
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The $13 Billion Mystery Angels
Who is funding the fourth-largest charity in the U.S.?
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Did Mark Zuckerberg's $100 million really help Newark's schools?
In 2010, Mark Zuckerberg made headlines by donating a staggering $100 million to the Newark public school system — but four years later, how much good has the big-ticket donation actually done?
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Wikipedian donates his estate to the Wikimedia Foundation
As he reflected on his life in a video interview with the Wikimedia Foundation on April 29, Jim Pacha beamed and smiled a lot. During the talk, Pacha was reminded of all the remarkable things that happened to him, including highlights in learning and career advancement. Pacha became a senior software engineer at a prestigious aerospace company, even though he never graduated from college.
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You can't hug children with robot arms
What if instead of donating money to aid organizations abroad, you could actually donate your time and compassion right from home, letting you remotely care for children in war-torn countries? That's what Surrogaid, a new site from the charity War Child, purports to let donors do using pairs of highly controllable robotic arms, allowing them to cook for children, hug them, or rock them to sleep in a crib.
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Is For-Profit the Future of Non-Profit?
Charity is for patsies. If you really care about making the world a better place, buy a trendy bag. That was the logic Lauren Bush Lauren articulated in a 2013 interview about FEED, a for-profit entity she founded that creates simple, eco-friendly tote bags whose price covers the cost of donating school meals to children in Rwanda via the UN World Food Program.
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Chinese millionaire set for lunch with 1,000 homeless in NYC
A wealthy Chinese businessman who tried to buy the New York Times planned to serve a free lunch to 1,000 homeless people in New York's Central Park on Wednesday with 250 of them dining in the park's Loeb Boathouse restaurant. Chen Guangbiao, who made his fortune in the recycling business, took out newspaper advertisements last week inviting "poor and destitute Americans" to lunch in the park.
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40 Grade 8 grads get $1.6M in scholarships from anonymous donor
An anonymous donor has given more than $1.5 million to 40 Grade 8 graduates in Leamington, Ont. — and the students were told the same day the historic Heinz plant officially closed and put hundreds out of work.
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Algeria will donate their World Cup prize money to the poor in Gaza
Algeria forward Islam Slimani has revealed that he and his team-mates are donating their money to people in Gaza. Slimani, who plays for Sporting Lisbon, said: 'They need it more than us.'
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A Chinese Real Estate Billionaire Just Donated His Entire Fortune To Charity. Leaving His Kids With Precisely NOTHING.
You've got to admire anyone who goes from being dirt poor to self-made billionaire. BUT! As you are about to see, the story of Chinese real estate mogul Yu Pengnian is EXTRA worthy of admiration. From a penniless rickshaw driver to a real estate magnate in Hong Kong, this 88-year old has lived a full and rich life.
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Fake Clothing Drop Bins Use Your “Charity” Donations To Make a Profit
From Tampa to Charlotte to New York City, non-legit Goodwill boxes are proliferating
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Google gives lift to S.F. homeless-shower bus
Google helps out a San Francisco nonprofit that's bringing showers to the city's homeless.
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This Is Why People Are Sending Pictures Of Dead Children To Simon Cowell
Simon Cowell didn’t expect to get pictures of dead children sent to him after donating a large sum of money to an Israeli charity, but the X-Factor judge was given a hard lesson from the other side of the Arabic conflict.
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