...The word 'charity' means generosity in giving some¬thing to the needy out of loving kindness towards them; and a charitable organization is an institution with funds to help the needy. There is a proverb: 'Charity begins at home.' A per¬son, who is kind at heart and possesses compassion from his early days towards the weak and the needy in the society, is generally found to help and make gifts to the poor. He finds joy and satisfaction in giving alms to a beggar, or renders some financial relief to the needy persons who are near at hand. Thus charity begins at home. In other words, it begins in the near neighbourhoods of a person. One first comes forward to help his neighbours, relatives and friends in the very beginning. Afterwards, he extends his, same helping hand to the distant places, where thousands of the needy and the weak people await his help and sympathy. There are instances in India, of great men, who gave their all to the cause of charity. One such man was Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das, the great political leader and a renowned barrister. He donated his house, wealth and all that he had in his possession to his countrymen. In his name, hos¬pitals and similar other charitable institutions are still func¬tioning successfully. The Birlas, in India, have donated and built many chari¬table institutions in India for the benefit of the common peo¬ple. The dharmasalas (a guest-house where pilgrims and travelers are accommodated temporarily free of cost), the hos¬pitals...
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... 1994 Dr. England 9 April 2015 The Invisible Force The Psychological Drive to Give Charities have become a prominent form of giving in our society, but what drives us towards these mediums of exchange? Is it for our own satisfaction? Peer pressure? Guilt? My research shows that the conscious state of an individual plays the most important role when engaging in donating, it serves as the pendulum which is pushed by outside forces into contributing to charities. My definition of charitable giving is donating and allocating a portion of your assets for an underprivileged group of individuals with the intentions to better their lives. By assets I do not only mean money, I also mean any valued resources such as time and knowledge that can greatly enhance another individuals living standards. Participating in charities has an array of advantages, from the uplifting feeling it brings to the donator, to the benefits received by those in need, it serves as a mediator of joy and happiness for all those involved. Most of my research shows that the majority of disadvantages with charity stems from the consciousness of an individual, as noted earlier; if a person is not in the right state of mind, he or she will be liable to falling prey to countless scams and pressured donations. Fortunately, there are several solutions available in order to quell these fears, such as researching the charity beforehand, tracking what kind of impact your donations makes, and checking the legitimacy...
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...Viewing/Paper of Sweet Charity Plot Synopsis: The movie Sweet Charity begins with Charity singing through Central Park with her ‘boyfriend’ Charlie. Hopelessly romantic and optimistic, Charity believes they will get married and even has a tattoo of his name on her arm. However, as Charity is about to make a wish, Charlie pushes her off a bridge and steals her entire lifesavings. In denial about what happened Charity returns to her work as a Dance Hall Hostess at the Fandango Ballroom and tries to convince her taxi dancer friends Nickie and Helene that Charlie will be back. Upon leaving work, Charity runs into the famous Italian actor Vittorio Vidal having an argument with his girlfriend Ursula. When Ursula departs in a cab, Vittorio asks a nosy and starstruck Charity to accompany him to a party. At the party Charity finds herself surrounded by luxury and fame and upon leaving the party the two return to Vittorio’s luxurious apartment where Charity is overwhelmed by the sheer extravagance and refers back to her life due to a “fickle finger of fate”. As she thinks back to her taxi dancer friends, she begins in song wishing her friends could only see her now. She then realizes that her friends would never believe her. It is then that Vittorio autographs a picture made out to Charity and givers her a few mementos from his old movies to remember him by and to use as proof. Unfortunately, Ursula unexpectedly shows up causing Vittorio to hide Charity in the closet for the rest of...
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...How are charities going to have to adapt their fundraising methods in order to connect with young people in the future? Introduction. People over 60 are now more than twice as likely to give to charity as people under 30. Although on average over 60s have more disposable income to give, this is not the only reason for this statistic. This report will investigate not just how much people are giving but more importantly why some under 30s are not giving at all. If many of these 30 year olds are not giving now, what is to say they will when they are 60? Charities are going to have to adapt the way they appeal to the younger generation, through methods such as social media, to prevent the ‘industry’ from falling apart within the next 50 years. There were a number of reasons for this topic being of interest to me: I have been involved in a few sponsored events for charity, and the church I have been brought up in has had regular involvement with the charity world both in London and overseas. I am also interested in the long term in doing some voluntary charity work abroad during a gap year. Is there evidence that something has to be done to engage the younger generation? Between 1980 and 2010 the total share of giving coming from the under-30s fell from 8 per cent in 1980 to 3 per cent in 2010, while the share coming from the over-75s grew from 9 per cent in 1980 to 21 per cent in 2010. This led the ‘Mind the Gap’ report to conclude that ‘The concern is what happens when...
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...How are charities going to have to adapt their fundraising methods in order to connect with young people in the future? Introduction. People over 60 are now more than twice as likely to give to charity as people under 30. Although on average over 60s have more disposable income to give, this is not the only reason for this statistic. This report will investigate not just how much people are giving but more importantly why some under 30s are not giving at all. If many of these 30 year olds are not giving now, what is to say they will when they are 60? Charities are going to have to adapt the way they appeal to the younger generation, through methods such as social media, to prevent the ‘industry’ from falling apart within the next 50 years. There were a number of reasons for this topic being of interest to me: I have been involved in a few sponsored events for charity, and the church I have been brought up in has had regular involvement with the charity world both in London and overseas. I am also interested in the long term in doing some voluntary charity work abroad during a gap year. Is there evidence that something has to be done to engage the younger generation? Between 1980 and 2010 the total share of giving coming from the under-30s fell from 8 per cent in 1980 to 3 per cent in 2010, while the share coming from the over-75s grew from 9 per cent in 1980 to 21 per cent in 2010. This led the ‘Mind the Gap’ report to conclude that ‘The concern is what happens when...
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...The Ronald McDonald House Charities history starts in 1974 when a Philadelphia Eagles player’s daughter became sick with leukemia. Fred Hill and his wife had no place to sleep other than waiting rooms and hospital benches during their daughter’s three years of hospitalization. The Hills and other families traveled many miles for treatment and were not able to pay for hotel rooms. The Eagles’ manager and Fred’s teammates raised funds to donate to the pediatric oncology unit to give short term housing for the families with sick children at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (n.d.) Retrieved from http://www.rmhccoastalempire.org/-mcdonald-house-charities-of-the-coastal-empire-inc. The Eagles manager, Jim Murray, requested help from the...
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...different entities. Catholic Charities sees stakeholders as individuals, businesses, corporations, groups, suppliers, or organizations that have an interest or concern in them. The primary objective of Catholic seeks to balance each stakeholders in, maximizing their value and efficiently managing individual self interests and expectations to create value in order to serve their primary goal of strengthening the lives of all in need by giving help that empowers and hope that lasts. To this end we affirm and support the dignity of all human life, strengthen families and serve the poor and most vulnerable. Stakeholders for Catholic Charities include the various businesses that use Catholic Charities fundraising causes for networking events. Included are also the employees and beneficiaries of Catholic Charities. Catholic Charities does an amazing job fundraising, with an average of 5% of the revenue going to funding the events and 95% going to charitable contributions. One way they can increase fundraising to their stakeholders is potentially combining events with charitable acts. They could form a subsidiary catering group and based on availability, try and employ job seekers to staff their fundraising events such as their wine tasting, snowball, ect…. They would become less dependent on donors and potentially help people build their resumes and contact/recommendation lists to find gainful and more permanent employment opportunities. Catholic charities could also provide volunteer...
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...|Who can use this form? |An organisation (not a private individual) running an indoor event with up to 2,500 visitors with a budget of up | | |to £100,000, lasting no longer than seven days. | | |The organisation must be domiciled in England, Scotland or Wales and the event must be taking place in England, | | |Scotland or Wales. | | |If you do not meet these criteria, or if you wish to cover more than one event on the same policy we can provide a| | |bespoke quote. Proposal forms are available from www.hiscoxbroker.co.uk/events and a minimum premium of £400 plus | | |Insurance Premium Tax (6%) will apply. | | | | | |Type of event (please tick) | | |Conference, congress, convention | ...
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...Charity Among the key concepts of love touched upon by C.S. Lewis in his novel The Four Loves, is his concept of charity. Charity is a type of love that involves showing care for someone that is not easily loved, while doing it in a selfless manner with no gain for the caregiver. From the story of creation in Genesis we are told that mankind is made in God’s image. Through the act of God sacrificing His son Jesus for our iniquity, we see that he is charitable. Therefore, transitively, mankind is created naturally for charity. This is important to note because it shows that regardless of belief in God, anyone can be charitable. Our understanding of charity can be wrapped up nicely by Lewis on pages 128 and 129 of his book by the following quotes: “Divine Gift-love – love Himself working in a man – is wholly disinterested and desires what is simply best for the beloved.” (4 Loves, Page 128) “But Divine Gift-love in the man enables him to love what is not naturally lovable…” (4 Loves, Page 128) “That such Gift-love comes by Grace and should be called Charity…” (4 Loves, Page 129) “Love Himself can work in those who know nothing of Him.” (4 Loves, Page 129) With these principles we can formulate the idea that charity is God’s love for us – divine gift-love – redirected to fellow human beings. God loves us through the act of grace. He is wholly disinterested, gaining nothing from loving us. He also loves us when we are riddled with sin, or in other words, unlovable....
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...reputation of a charity if they were caught misusing money? How is it possible to know if the charity is reliable or not? The Susan G. Komen Foundation, the Red Cross, and the United Way are examples of charities that have misused people’s money. The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation was one of the variety of charities that misused people’s money. It is important to research charities before you donate money to them because it could be a scam or they could be dishonorable. “[I]t spent only about 20% of its donations for research; the biggest expenditure category was public education, at more than 50%” (Hiltzik); this is an example of how this charity misused the money. Instead of using more of the donated money for research, they used most of it for education. Yet the people who donated thought that the money was going to go towards the research for a cure of breast cancer....
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...groW Make W Investing in Water; Tales from a Wealth Advisor; Robert Shiller on Wall Street Best Restaurants; First-Run Films at Home; Companies Solving Water Crises live Questions for Your Yacht Builder; WaterRelated Philanthropy; 10 Extraordinary Boats ® the evolution of financial intelligence Charting troubled Waters The Blue Issue worth.com volume 21 | edition 02 Boston, MA Leading Advisor Fidelity CharitableSM Ryan Boland, Director, Complex Asset Group “ ” When does it make sense to donate real estate to charity? By Ryan Boland While the donation of appreciated securities—stocks, bonds and mutual funds—is common, relatively few individuals donate real estate to charity. Under specific circumstances, however, such a donation can be mutually advantageous to both the giver (the owner of the real estate) and the recipient (the charitable organization). At a most basic level, those circumstances are: (1) when the property in question has significant long-term appreciation, such that the owner would incur a sizable capital gains tax upon selling it, and (2) when the property is relatively easy for the charitable organization to liquidate, with minimal chance for incurring liability or major carrying costs prior to the sale. These conditions are most frequently met by individuals seeking to donate a long-held primary or secondary home. The donation of commercial or industrial real estate...
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...Corporate Social Responsibility Social Responsibility is an obligation to any business to help improve the community or society in a positive way. In this scenario Company Q is introduced as a local grocery store that has not been having a positive impact on the community that it is serving. Company Q has closed stores in the metropolitan areas that have a crime rate in order to minimizing losing money and have denied donating day old food to charities. The company claims that if they start to donate day old product then the company employees might start to steal the food and claim they are donating it to the charity and the loss of revenue that might occur. In my opinion, Company Q has taken a non-philanthropic attitude or approach in society. Being a non-philanthropic company you are more worried about your shareholders instead of the community that provide your business. Some changes that Company Q can take in order to change their attitude in society are: donate the day old food to charity, believe in their employees that work for them, re-open the doors in the metropolitan area with more security in order to prevent the loss of profits, offer more organic products at a more efficient cost to the public, and reintroduce the company missions, values and statements to encourage the community to be proactive and shopping at a company that gives back to the community. By opening the doors to the metropolitan areas, with improved security allow the community to lower...
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...------------------------------------------------- Moral Studies MPW 1153 Kenneth Care Home Students name : Tang Chii Haw 4316029 Eric Wong Ing Kling 4307127 Ng Taw Yuen 1.1 Background of the Kenneth Care Home Kenneth Care Home is a private ‘Old Folks Home’. It is founded for helping to take care the old people whose son or daughter busy with their work or didn’t have enough time with their parents. Besides that, it also helps to treat the old man who are sick or other. Kenneth Care Home was established in the year 2013. The founder of the Kenneth Care Home was the owner of it who are Dr. Kenneth Tan. There have 7 branches of the Kenneth Care Home in Kuchng. The Kenneth Care Home that we have visited was 6th branch of all of the branches. Currently, Kenneth Care Home is located at No. 325, Lorong Seladah 10, Jalan Seladah, OFF Jalan Song. It is near to the Cityone shopping mall. 1.2.1 Mission * To provide the high quality of care in a safe, home-like environment 1.2.2 Objectives - To be recognized as a home where residents want to live and staff choose to work. 1.2.3 Acknowledgement We would like to express our sincere gratitude and thanks to Mr.Lee Tian Aik for his guidance and his patience in assisting us to do our project community work at Kenneth Care Home. With his guidance, our project report will be more presentable after giving him to check the first draft of our report...
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...THE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT – UNIT 1- ASSIGNMENT 1 P1 The two businesses’ I have chosen are ASDA and OXFAM. Both are business are hugely recognised, but differ in their business approach. Asda’s aim is to provide a variety of food/necessities/clothing/fuel and to make a profit of these sales, but still provide them at a competitive rate. However Oxfam’s aim is to aid those who are less fortunate by providing clothing, food, shelter at no cost. Oxfam has no intention of making profit as it is a charitable business. This compares to Asda who do want to make a profit, for their providing of goods to customers. Both businesses are in fact similar in the way that they provide, but one (Oxfam) is less profit probing than the other. ASDA Asda is an English based supermarket/stall. Formed in the 1920’s by English farmers, it is now part of the Wal-Mart family. Wal-Mart is an American based business who specialise in similar activities as Asda does in the UK. Wal-Mart bought Asda in 1999 for approximately 6.7bn. Asda is an international business as it operates on quite a large scale in certain countries around the world. This is because it is part of the Wal-Mart family, which operates internationally. Asda provides customer service by providing goods to customers for a price. These goods include clothing (George), food, technology items. Asda have both business and ethical aims and objectives. One of the most obvious aims is to provide locals with a variety of purchasing choices...
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...interesting concept Singer has is his actual solution to world poverty, which basically describes people donating any money not spent on necessities to charities. Although, I am in line with the fact that the U.S. consumer has been brainwashed into thinking they are purchasing necessities and have shown a lack of judgment for understanding when they are purchasing necessities versus when they are purchasing luxuries, I do not agree that is a reason to give away all of your extra income to charities around the world. This is an extremely unrealistic amount that does not align with how a large population of our society thinks about personal wealth. The words need and want are used interchangeably in American culture and this causes us to trick ourselves into believing we should be buying unnecessary items. For example, even when we are speaking about things we want, we often say we need them because it highlights how badly we want that item. Things that you want could give you a goal to work towards, but when you think about things that you need you are liable to feel bad about yourself or less than others if you do not have these items. A huge reason why many of us do not donate substantial amounts of money is because we do not believe we have the money to do so, but in fact we do have the extra money to donate to charities, we just chose to spend it other wise. We are not taking responsibility of our actions and our thoughts. As a society, we have come to think of many things...
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