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Essentially, the movie sets out to expose problems within the gay community and their "pride events" in relation to charities.
I read in an article online that 20% of the profits are going to gay charities, so I don't know why some of these comments talk about making a buck off the film.
But there are many charities doing that.
The first thing that many people ask about charities is, “How much of my donation is spent on administration?”
But the information is taken from forms that the charities themselves complete and send to the tax authorities.
They wanted to make similarly well-informed choices about the charities to which they contributed.
So Karnofsky and Hassenfeld got together with six friends who also worked in finance and divided up the field to find out which charities could be shown to be effective.
They contacted organizations and received lots of attractive marketing material, but nothing that answered basic questions: what do the charities do with their money, and what evidence do they have that their activities help?
They called many charities, but eventually realized something that seemed extraordinary: the information was just not there.
The fact that charities were unprepared for such questions indicated to Karnofsky and Hassenfeld that other donors and foundations give more or less blindly, without the information needed to make sound decisions about whom to support.
They invited charities to apply for grants of $25,000 in five broad humanitarian categories, with the application process demanding the kind of information that they had been seeking.
Evaluating charities can be more difficult than making investment decisions.
In other ways, too, evaluating charities takes time, and can be expensive.
In the US, individual donors give about $200 billion to charities each year.
By giving charities an incentive to become more transparent and more focused on being demonstrably effective, GiveWell could make our charitable donations do much more good than ever before.
During the 1980’s, Saudi Arabia spent $75 billion for the propagation of Wahhabism, funding schools, mosques, and charities throughout the Islamic world, from Pakistan to Afghanistan, Yemen, Algeria, and beyond.
But a pathbreaking initiative in Lebanon, involving teachers, aid agencies, and education charities has opened a small window of hope.
Now, thanks to the Institute of International Education, charities, philanthropists, and foundations have united to help refugee students find higher-education opportunities, and to provide safe havens for lecturers and professors persecuted by the Syrian regime.
Some NGO’s and Chernobyl charities have responded with disbelief, citing as evidence the general population’s admittedly poor health.
The new view on Chernobyl threatens the existence of charities – such as those offering health “respites” abroad for children – that depend for their fund-raising on graphic footage of deformed babies.
Similarly, charities are right to worry about the population’s health, but they should focus on promoting healthy lifestyles in affected communities rather than whisking children abroad as if their homes were poisonous.
In fact, most oligarchs have started charities and foundations.
Moreover, corporations, charities, and other institutions filing libel suits will now have to show that they suffered financial damage.
They are not charities.
People must go beyond writing checks to charities and contribute actively to building schools, funding scholarships, and training teachers.
For decades, education has been the preserve of governments and charities in Africa, cut off from the expertise and investment that private companies can provide.
Julia started giving her savings to charities like Oxfam.
To be sure, monarchs – and especially their spouses, heirs, and relations – often carve out niches for themselves, from wildlife protection to sports and charities.
TRC shows what governments, charities, and the private sector can accomplish through creative collaboration.
To that end, I founded The Life You Can Save, an organization that gathers evidence about which charities give donors the most bang for their buck and encourages people to donate to them.
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