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Re: Charity & Volunteering

Postby winston » Fri Aug 13, 2010 11:35 pm

NYC executive gives panhandler a lot of credit

NYC ad exec gives panhandler a lot of credit _ and sure enough, he returns her Amex card

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Aug 13, 2010 10:29 EDT

A New York City ad executive says she never doubted a homeless man would return the credit card she loaned him in lieu of change.

Marrie Harris says she didn't have any cash when Jay Valentine asked for some Monday, so she let him use her American Express platinum card instead.

Friends and bystanders told her she'd never see it again. But Valentine soon returned it after buying deodorant, body wash, cigarettes and water for a total of $25.

Valentine says he was surprised to be handed the card but never considered taking advantage of Harris' generosity.

He says he lost his real-estate company job a few years ago. An Internet cafe in SoHo has been letting him sleep there. That's where he ran into Harris.

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Information from: New York Post, http://www.nypost.com

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Re: Charity & Volunteering

Postby winston » Sat Aug 21, 2010 7:12 am

Entrepreneurs Can Make A Greater Contribution To Society Through Business Than Charity By Mark Perry

From today’s WSJ editorial page “Gates and Buffett Take the Pledge” by Kimberly Dennis:

“Bill Gates and Warren Buffett announced this month that 40 of America’s richest people have agreed to sign a “Giving Pledge” to donate at least half of their wealth to charity. With a collective net worth said to total $230 billion, that promise translates to at least $115 billion. It’s an impressive number. Yet some—including Messrs. Gates and Buffett—say it isn’t enough. Perhaps it’s actually too much: the wealthy may help humanity more as businessmen and women than as philanthropists.

Successful entrepreneurs-turned-philanthropists typically say they feel a responsibility to “give back” to society. But “giving back” implies they have taken something. What, exactly, have they taken? Yes, they have amassed great sums of wealth. But that wealth is the reward they have earned for investing their time and talent in creating products and services that others value. They haven’t taken from society, but rather enriched us in ways that were previously unimaginable.

Even if Mr. Gates makes progress in achieving his ambitious philanthropic objectives—eradicating disease, reducing global poverty, and improving educational quality—these accomplishments are unlikely to match what he achieved by giving us the amazing capability we literally have at our fingertips to access and spread information.

The very doctors and scientists who may develop cures for diseases like malaria will rely on the tools Microsoft supplies to conduct their research. Had Mr. Gates decided to step down from his company and turn to philanthropy sooner than he did, they might have fewer such tools.

Let’s hope the philanthropy of those who do sign the Giving Pledge achieves great things. But let’s not fool ourselves into thinking that businessmen are likely to achieve more by giving their money away than they have by making it in the first place.”

From the NBER paper “Schumpeterian Profits in the American Economy: Theory and Measurement” by William Norhaus:

“The present study examines the importance of Schumpeterian profits in the United States economy. Schumpeterian profits are defined as those profits that arise when firms are able to appropriate the returns from innovative activity. We first show the underlying equations for Schumpeterian profits and then estimate the value of these profits for the non-farm business economy.

We conclude that only a minuscule fraction of the social returns from technological advances over the 1948-2001 period was captured by producers, indicating that most of the benefits of technological change are passed on to consumers rather than captured by producers. For the entire postwar period and for the nonfarm business sector, innovators are able to capture about 2.2% of the total surplus from innovation.”

MP: In other words, it’s very likely that the total value created for society by Bill Gates’ innovative activity by starting Microsoft far exceeds his own personal wealth, so he has already given back billions of dollars worth of value to society, and should feel no need to give anything more back.

In fact, a stronger case could be made that consumers have taken something from Bill Gates, than the opposite. If the Nordhaus analysis accurately applies to Bill Gates, almost 98% of the social returns from the value of Microsoft products have already been captured by consumers around the world, which greatly exceeds the personal fortune of Bill Gates.

And the contribution to society from Bill Gates’ capitalist activities will likely far exceed the contribution to society of his charitable giving.

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Re: Charity & Volunteering

Postby winston » Sat Aug 28, 2010 6:50 am

What is the true definition of "service"?

Education is rendered noble when the spirit of service is inculcated. The service rendered must be free of the slightest trace of narrow selfishness. That is not enough.

The thought of service should not be marred by the desire for something in return. You have to perform the service as you would perform an important sacrificial ritual.

As trees do not eat their fruits but offer them to be eaten by others in an attitude of detachment; as rivers, without drinking the waters they carry, quench the thirst and cool the heat from which others suffer; as cows offer their milk, produced primarily for their calves, in a spirit of generosity born of renunciation, to be shared by others; so too you should offer yourself to others prompted by the motive of service and without consideration of selfish interests.

Only then can you justify your status as noble men.

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Re: Charity & Volunteering

Postby millionairemind » Tue Aug 31, 2010 6:13 pm

If you are interested to volunteer, please contact me.

If you have a car, it would be nice if you can pop by and do your part for charity while getting your car washed. :)

Dear CDAC volunteers,

CDAC will be collaborating with FM 95.8 and Songhe again this year in the Rice Donation and Distribution Project. CDAC will be one of the beneficiaries for this project (the other beneficiary is the S’pore Children’s Society). The rice raised from this project will be distributed to the low-income families under CDAC’s various assistance schemes.

Members of the public will be able to contribute to the donation drive by purchasing the Songhe Fortune Pack or the rice vouchers at any of the 25 SPC stations between 11 Sept and 8 Oct 2010. Songhe will donate 50 cents to the Rice Fund for every fortune pack or rice voucher sold, and the money raised will be used to purchase rice for the beneficiaries.

In addition, there will be a Car Wash Donation Drive on 26 Sept 2010 at each of the 25 SPC stations. All proceeds will be used to purchase rice for the beneficiaries. We will need your help and support in this Donation Drive. Details as follows:

Date: 26 Sept 2010 (Sun)
Time: 12pm-6pm
Venue: 12 of the SPC stations (locations to be confirmed later)
No. of Volunteers Required: 2-3 vols at each of the 12 SPC stations
Role of Volunteers: To collect the car wash fees (with a donation box) from the customers, and to encourage members of the public to wash their
cars and support the donation drive

Pls give us your particulars as below if you are keen to volunteer your service for this Car Wash Donation Drive. We hope to hear from you by 15 Sept 2010 (Wednesday).

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Re: Charity & Volunteering 01 (Jun 08 - Dec 10)

Postby winston » Wed Sep 15, 2010 7:11 am

“In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us.”
– Flora Edwards

"If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another."
- 14th Dalai Lama

"For it is in giving that we receive."
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Re: Charity & Volunteering 01 (Jun 08 - Dec 10)

Postby winston » Wed Sep 15, 2010 8:00 am

“The best way to find your self is to lose your self in the service of others.”
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Re: Charity & Volunteering 01 (Jun 08 - Dec 10)

Postby winston » Tue Sep 21, 2010 6:58 am

What is the reward for selfless service?

Engage yourselves in selfless service. The reward for it will come of its own accord.

Do not have any doubts on this score. Whatever you undertake, do it with all your heart and to your full satisfaction.

That satisfaction is all the reward and recompense that you will need. It will confer great strength on you. This is the virtue that you have to cultivate.

Acquire this true wealth. Without goodness, all other riches are of no avail.

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Re: Charity & Volunteering 01 (Jun 08 - Dec 10)

Postby winston » Sat Sep 25, 2010 2:14 pm

Bravo. Clap Clap ...

Bill Clinton raises billions to tackle poverty


Former President Bill Clinton's three-day conference for VIPs with deep pockets generated nearly 300 new commitments valued at $6 billion to tackle major global issues from poverty and disease to climate change.

The sixth Clinton Global Initiative, which wrapped up late Thursday, brought together 67 current and former heads of state, more than 600 business leaders, and more than 500 leaders from non-governmental and philanthropic organizations.

The VIP attendees included President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, the former president's wife, Queen Rania of Jordan and Bill Gates.

"I think it's the way they reinforce one another — it's the networking," the ex-president said in an interview during the conference, trying to explain its success. "They get pumped up on each other and start trying to really do something."

"For example, when we started the Global Initiative only about a third of our commitments came from companies, and this year the companies will be involved in 54 percent of them," Clinton said.

He explained that companies are either spending money on their own or teaming up with NGOs, sometimes from countries with very low incomes.

"Over the years," Clinton said, "the people that come here want to do something meaningful with their lives and with the mission of their companies, like Procter and Gamble's president saying their goal was to save one life an hour somewhere on the planet every hour of the day."

"I think people believe in this idea of the obligation of citizens to take action to do something about these problems," he said.

At the close of the conference, the former president said he was "proud" of the nearly 300 new commitments, a near-record number despite the fallout from the global economic crisis.

He said one of the most interesting things about the new commitments is that about half were made by people who made previous commitments — some that have been completed and some that have not.

"In total, more than 1,900 commitments have been made, worth $63 billion, and they have improved the lives of nearly 300 million people," Clinton said in a statement at the end of the conference.

Asked about the impact of the financial crisis, the former president said about 15 projects were dropped because people couldn't complete them, and about 35 others may have to abandon them for lack of financing.

"In general," he said, "we're doing pretty well."

The conference is similar to the World Economic Forum in Davos in its provocative panels and opportunities for networking, but Clinton said there is one major difference — any participant in the Clinton Global Initiative must make a financial commitment.

New commitments this year range from projects to help preserve the Amazon to getting medicine to the needy, producing science and technology kits for Mexican schools, providing Kenyan households with clean cookstoves and opening 100 neighborhood libraries in Jordan.

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Re: Charity & Volunteering 01 (Jun 08 - Dec 10)

Postby winston » Sat Oct 02, 2010 7:44 pm

"Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient become independent of it."

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Re: Charity & Volunteering 01 (Jun 08 - Dec 10)

Postby kennynah » Sat Oct 02, 2010 7:47 pm

i agree,....therefore...when you travel in parts of europe and you see "orphans" begging for money.... don't give... you will only perpetuate the child crime syndicate if you dole out money....
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