Items Tagged With Philanthropy

Can Billionaires Save the World?
Written By: David Neubert
2007-04-16 12:05:03
Jeffery Sachs thinks so. He ran some numbers for the World Bank and came up the solution.

Environment is the New Religion
Written By: Michelle Haimoff
2008-03-11 23:29:27
The recent New York Times Magazine entitled "The Money Issue," covers topics ranging from how good works are measured, to why people give, microfinancing, and the relationship between celebrity and philanthropy.

But what struck me off the bat is the chart illustrating how Americans allocated their contributions to charitable causes in 2006. The research was gathered by Giving USA, which also noted that U.S. charitable giving reached a new record in 2006 of an estimated $295.02 billion.

Americans allocated their charitable contributions as follows:

Cause	Amount (in billions)
Religion	$96.8
Education	$41
Human services	$29.6
Foundations	$29.5
Other	$26.1
Public-society benefit	$21.4
Health	$20.2
Arts, culture and humanities	$12.5
International affairs	$11.3
Environment and animals	$6.6

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Friend of The Panelist and Anti-War Group Code Pink Get Nice Write Up in The Chronicle
Written By: David Neubert
2007-07-13 12:13:19
They are sexy, they are engaging, they are angry, they embarrass war mongers, they protect our troops, they care -- Oh! And they are HOT BABY. Our friends at Code Pink - Women for Peace got a nice write up in the San Francisco Chronicle yesterday.

And believe me, I never want to get them thinking that I'm not for peace. I couldn't not handle the pressure. Luckily, most of the Senators who voted for invading Iraq back in 2003 can't handle the pressure either.

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N2Y3 2008 Mashup Challenge
Written By: Michelle Haimoff
2008-05-27 18:55:54
The N2Y3 2008 Mashup Challenge featured 21 teams competing for funding for initiatives ranging from saving endangered languages to ending genocide. On the first day of the conference each team was permitted two minutes to describe their projects, many of which focused on themes like government transparency and corporate accountability, and all of which rely very heavily on websites and social networking platforms. Mapping proved to be a very popular tool for organizing information.

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The University Consortium
Written By: Jack Hudson
2008-04-01 11:46:53

The University Consortium is one of my three aspirational and fictional ideas that are (relatively) cheap, that would make concrete environmental gains, that could be accomplished almost instantaneously by motivated people in positions of power (by phone calls, in two cases), and that would immediately set an agenda for the next election.

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