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383 examples of Charity in a sentence

Now, one of the things I'd like to explain [about] 50x15, which I think is really critical, is that it is not a charity.
And when we embarked in this initiative, from the very beginning we said it very clearly: this is not a charity.
Worthy cause; dump ice water, donate to charity, fine.
Just so you know, I do believe in missions, I do believe in aid and I do believe in charity.
I mean, sometimes we call out all the ways in which we help people from marginalized groups, or we donate to charity, or the hours we volunteer to nonprofits.
How can we get people to do more good, to go to the polls, give to charity, conserve resources, or even to do something as simple as washing their mugs at work so that the sink isn't always full of dirty dishes?
That same approach, it's been used to get people to vote or give to charity or even reuse their towels in hotels.
There was no incentive for anybody to redesign this product, because it was based on charity.
The Church had been a beloved and popular institution that brought comfort and charity to the masses.
When I was a prisoner at Channings Wood Prison, I began working for a charity called Storybook Dads.
So I'm not saying that agenda art isn't important; I'm the chairperson of a charity that deals with films and theaters that write about HIV and radicalization and female genital mutilation.
Before I know it, she has skiddled across the parking lot and in between the cars, and people behind me, with that kind of usual religious charity that the holidays bring us, wah-wah wah-wah.
But the reason I went was because I was volunteering for a large charity on climate justice, and it was seven years ago, when lots of people didn't believe in climate change, people were very cynical about activism, and my role, with all of my teammates, was to get people to sign petitions on climate justice and educate them a bit more about the issue.
When we talk about the contribution from countries of the north to the Green Fund for the protection of our planet, it is not charity.
Is it for charity?
I hardly ever gave money to charity, and when I did, I didn't feel that warm glow I was expecting.
When we analyzed surveys from more than 200,000 adults across the globe, we saw that nearly a third of the world's population reported giving at least some money to charity in the past month.
Remarkably, in every major region of the world, people who gave money to charity were happier than those who did not, even after taking into account their own personal financial situation.
It looked like giving to charity made about the same difference for happiness as having twice as much income.
I knew my donations would probably make a difference for someone somewhere, but going to the website of an effective charity and entering my Visa number still just didn't feel like enough.
But I think UNICEF is just such a big, broad charity that it can be a little hard to envision how your own small donation will make a difference.
So this suggests that just giving money to a worthwhile charity isn't always enough.
If any of you work for a charity, don't reward your donors with pens or calendars.
But then I realized that charity isn't justice, that acts of empathy isn't justice, that being a good neighbor is necessary but not sufficient, and there was more that had to be done.
And so we've been working with a charity called Medical Detection Dogs to see whether we can train them to learn the smell of malaria.
But this time we collected their odour by making them wear socks, nylon stockings to collect their body odour, and we brought them back to the UK, and then we handed them to this charity to run the experiment.
And we brought them back to the UK and then we handed them to this charity to run the experiment.
Deprived of scholarship, Sor Juana threw herself into charity work, and in 1695, she died of an illness she contracted while nursing her sisters.
In the US, our approach to doing good, or what we call "charity," has actually hindered us from making real progress.
They were reinventing charity in those times, what Rockefeller called "the business of benevolence."
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