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Myths about the Poor
Bill and Melinda Gates discuss three myths about the poor. http://m.us.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304149404579324530112590864?mobile=y Continue reading
Posted Jan 20, 2014 at The Give Blog
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A Child's Homeless Life
New York Times-Invisible Child: Dasani's Homeless Life By Andrea Elliott Gracie Mansion is something of an oddity. In a city with a 2 percent vacancy rate and a shortage of public housing, the mayoral residence sits uninhabited on 11 pristine acres of the Upper East Side. . . . What impresses Dasani most are not the architectural details or the gold-bound volumes of Chaucer and Tolstoy, but the astonishing lack of dust. She runs her hand lightly over the top of a Steinway piano. “I tell you,” she says. “This house is clean.” Read the entire article. Continue reading
Posted Dec 9, 2013 at The Give Blog
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Microcredit in US
New York Times-Microcredit for Americans By Shaila Dewan On a recent Thursday, dozens of Latina immigrants clustered in a small, noisy second-floor office in the Jackson Heights neighborhood of Queens, waiting for one of a half-dozen loan officers to call their names and hand over a check. Children loitered in the stairwell or sprawled, calflike, over their mothers’ laps. Read entire article. Continue reading
Posted Oct 28, 2013 at The Give Blog
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The Happiest Countries and Income
The UN's report on the happiest countries demonstrates money can help create happiness but also can hurt it.http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/09/130909-2013-world-happiness-report-united-nations/?utm_source=NatGeocom&utm_medium=Email&utm_content=inside_20130919&utm_campaign=Content Continue reading
Posted Sep 19, 2013 at The Give Blog
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"The Crazy Cash-Giveaway Experiment"
GiveDirectly is a charity which gives money to some of the world's poorest people without any strings attached. The New York Times looked at whether such an approach is a good one. The author Jacob Goldstein concluded "At its most basic level, after all, GiveDirectly's work is an attempt to test one of the simplest ideas in economics-that people know what they need, and if they have money, they can buy it. Taken at its logical conclusion, this suggests that giving away money may often be more helpful to people than giving them cows, or medicine, or training, or whatever." Continue reading
Posted Sep 1, 2013 at The Give Blog
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Influencing Each Other to Give
This story gives an interesting perspective on the influences on generosity. One of the stories involves Bill Gates's wife Melinda's influence on Bill. She motivated him to start the Billionaire pledge after she read a book on a family selling their house and giving half of it away. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/21/opinion/sunday/why-men-need-women.html?pagewanted=all Continue reading
Posted Jul 21, 2013 at The Give Blog
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Good Work in Guatemala City
Ants. That's what first popped into my head. Looking down the cliff from where we were standing, it looked like thousands of ants were moving about, except they weren’t ants... They were people. Read more from this website about two great organizations helping in Guatemala City.http://educationbreakingpoverty.weebly.com/index.html Continue reading
Posted Jun 29, 2013 at The Give Blog
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The Worst Charities
Check out this list of the worst charities. http://www.tampabay.com/americas-worst-charities/ Continue reading
Posted Jun 7, 2013 at The Give Blog
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Learn More About Giving
Stanford Graduate School of Business Lecturer, Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen who has given away lots of money has posted materials from her course at Stanford. She created the blog to help make your giving matter more. Continue reading
Posted Jun 6, 2013 at The Give Blog
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A Different Way to Think About Charities
This TED talk challenges us to think of charities in a different way. http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pallotta_the_way_we_think_about_charity_is_dead_wrong.html Continue reading
Posted May 14, 2013 at The Give Blog
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Can We End Poverty?
New York Times-Is It Crazy to Think We Can Eradicate Poverty? By Annie Lowrey At a news conference during the spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in late April, Jim Yong Kim held up a piece of paper with the year “2030” scribbled on it in pen. “This is it,” said Kim, the genial American physician who took over as president of the World Bank last summer. “This is the global target to end poverty.” Read the entire article. Continue reading
Posted May 6, 2013 at The Give Blog
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Hunger Persists in the Philippines
Posted Oct 19, 2012 at The Give Blog
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Head of World Bank Talks about Poverty
Wall Street Journal—Fighting Poverty In Times of Crisis Continue reading
Posted Oct 18, 2012 at The Give Blog
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On the Ground—Safe Passage
Posted Oct 17, 2012 at The Give Blog
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A Gap in Words
New York Times—Before a Test, a Poverty of Words By Ginia Bellafante Not too long ago, I witnessed a child, about two months shy of 3, welcome the return of some furniture to his family’s apartment with the enthusiastic declaration “Ottoman is back!” The child understood that the stout cylindrical object from which he liked to jump had a name and that its absence had been caused by a visit to someone called “an upholsterer.” Read more. Continue reading
Posted Oct 15, 2012 at The Give Blog
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A Gap in Words
New York Times—Before a Test, a Poverty of Words By Ginia Bellafante Not too long ago, I witnessed a child, about two months shy of 3, welcome the return of some furniture to his family’s apartment with the enthusiastic declaration “Ottoman is back!” The child understood that the stout cylindrical object from which he liked to jump had a name and that its absence had been caused by a visit to someone called “an upholsterer.” Read more. Continue reading
Posted Oct 12, 2012 at The Give Blog
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Child Poverty in DC
Posted Oct 12, 2012 at The Give Blog
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The Election Issue of Income Inequality
Posted Oct 11, 2012 at The Give Blog
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On the Ground: Save the Child Movement
Posted Oct 10, 2012 at The Give Blog
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Our Conscious Living: Phone Charger
Posted Oct 9, 2012 at The Give Blog
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Singing Against Hunger
Posted Oct 8, 2012 at The Give Blog
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Corporate Focus on Hunger by Yum Brands
Posted Oct 5, 2012 at The Give Blog
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Happier though not Richer
Posted Oct 4, 2012 at The Give Blog
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On the Ground: Children of the Americas
Posted Oct 3, 2012 at The Give Blog
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Our Conscious Living: 99 cent Tacos
Posted Oct 2, 2012 at The Give Blog
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