Posts Tagged ‘charity’

Improve Your Charitable Giving: Let Not Your Left Hand Know What Your Right Is Doing

According to virtually every religious and ethical tradition, meaningful charity does not draw attention to the giver, and dignified charity does not draw attention to the recipient. Here I will offer an economist's perspective on the Biblical injunction to "let not the right hand know what the left is doing" in charitable giving and will argue that this results in more efficient charity (meaning that it increases the bang we… Continue reading

June 2 2009 | By Art | Tagged: charity, economics, giving, Money | 9 comments»

Recognize Excellence to Make a Difference

It was Monday, December 29 and I wasn't happy. I had spent part of the morning at home working on odds and ends and another part of the morning at the office working on a book review and a few other things. I was in a funk because I'd forgotten to answer an email from a friend and mentor asking about having lunch today, I had a billion little things… Continue reading

February 23 2009 | By Art | Tagged: charity, criticism, feedback, giving, information | 1 comment»

Teaching Kids Charity and Clarity with Pre-Christmas Cleaning

Today is "Black Friday", the busiest shopping day of the year in the US and the official start of the Christmas buying season. If you have kids, that most likely means a new crop of the latest toys and video games. The wholesale (maybe I should say "retail") celebration of consumerism makes a lot of people anxious, with good reason. What kind of values are we modeling for… Continue reading

November 23 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: charity, children, christmas, organization, toys | 31 comments»

Ripple – Surf For Charity

Hailing from Melbourne, Australia, Ripple.org is a site that uses online advertising to help out charities. It's a two prong attack. Click If you want to send money to one of the four charities Ripple supports, all you have to do is click Water, Food, Education or Money and you will be forwarded to a sponsor's advertisement, of which 100% of the revenue goes directly to the selected charity. Search You… Continue reading

May 9 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: advertising, charity, Money | 6 comments»