Charity
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383 examples of Charity in a sentence
In the words of Jason Russell, founder of the
charity
Invisible Children, “It isn’t a political issue.
My colleagues and I suggest a system in which compensation is provided by a third party (government, a charity, or insurance) with public oversight.
Support for the deserving poor was to her like
charity
wrung from the household budget.
You see some of the humanitarian problems stemming from the siege most clearly when visiting hospitals, as I did with the
charity
Medical Aid for Palestinians, of which I am President.
Most people do not want
charity.
Fortunately, there is abundant precedent for in-kind government redistribution that does not seem like
charity
for society’s losers.
As long as most people use the government schools and doctors, redistribution does not look like
charity.
Last week, the Global Business Coalition for Education and the
charity
Theirworld outlined a way forward that is economical and can be implemented immediately.The plan is simple: double shifts in existing schools, with local children attending during the first half of the day, and refugee children attending during the second half.
More to the point,
charity
is not a responsible way to finance public policy.
It is often claimed in the Islamic world that, because one of the five fundamental duties of a Muslim is Zakat
(charity
to the poor), Islamic society is less atomistic, which limits inequality and social exclusion.
Such investments are a clear case of coincidence between self-interest and
charity.
A
charity
dollar only has one life: once it is used, it cannot be brought back.
In Eastern Europe, civil society is not just weaker; it is also more focused on areas such as charity, religion, and leisure, rather than political issues.Moreover, in the vastly different political landscape of Europe’s post-communist states, the left is either very weak or completely absent from the political mainstream.
In Eastern Europe, civil society is not just weaker; it is also more focused on areas such as charity, religion, and leisure, rather than political issues.
According to the
charity
evaluator Givewell, the Against Malaria Foundation saves a child’s life with every $3,500 it spends, and one study in Kenya even found that as little as $1,000 spent on bed-net distribution can prevent a child’s death.
In Zambia, research conducted by local governments, in collaboration with the anti-poverty
charity
Concern Worldwide, found that new hybrid seeds produced roughly four to five tons of maize per hectare, compared to Africa’s average of one ton per hectare.
After all, it would not be funny if a
charity
dedicated to famine relief celebrated its own ineffectiveness; practical value in that case would be paramount, because it would be the only real reason for the
charity
to exist.
Should we, say, buy carbon offsets, or donate to a
charity
providing micronutrient supplements?
A report by Tearfund, a leading relief and development charity, provides an instructive example from Mozambique.
If we were to create a real market, it would become unpleasantly commercial – a bit like those
charity
auctions where celebrities or tycoons donate the pleasure of their company for lunch with the highest bidder, except that the VIP pockets the money.
PEER, which is partly funded by former New York University President John Sexton’s education charity, Catalyst, will be administered by the Institute of International Education (IIE).
If you want to help to prevent the tragic fact that, each year, thousands of babies are born to drug-addicted mothers, you can contribute to a
charity
that uses a market mechanism to ameliorate the problem: a $300 cash grant to any drug-addicted woman willing to be sterilized.
The recalculation simply attempts to achieve a more accurate picture of the EU economy, correcting for activity not officially measured in national accounts, such as charity, drugs, and prostitution.
The world’s one billion hungry people do not deserve charity: they have a human right to adequate food, and governments have corresponding duties, which are enshrined in international human rights law.
This removes the stigma of charity, and it is empowering for victims.
It has revoked the tax-exempt
charity
status of an anti-vaccination advocacy group, on the grounds that their fear-mongering misinformation about the danger of vaccines threatens public health, especially the health of children.
Hopes for widespread cures were high when the Human Genome Project – financed by a private medical charity, a UK research council, and the US National Institutes of Health – was completed ten years ago.
Unfortunately, according to Joanna Syroka of the World Bank’s Commodity Risk Management Group, official foreign aid and private
charity
tends to arrive too late, often after starvation has actually begun, and long after the families have taken extreme measures, consuming their capital to survive.
The banker neglected to mention that the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, a lobby group, commissioned the paper and donated its $50,000 fee to a
charity
specified by the professor, Darrell Duffie (who disclosed this donation in his paper).
An earlier version of this commentary incorrectly stated that Professor Darrell Duffie was paid by the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association for a paper he wrote in opposition to a particular financial regulation, and that Duffie donated this money to
charity.
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