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1 in 4 charitable dollars goes into 'dark money' funds that have no obligation to actually donate to charity—but their donors still get all the benefits
In January 1990, an anonymous tipster sent a note on United Way of America letterhead to several United Way directors, including the board chairman Edward A. Brennan, alleging that United Way of America CEO William Aramony had affairs with two sisters (one of which was a teenager) and he was using the charity's money to keep the women quiet ...
Planet Aid, Inc. collects used clothing through a wide network of donation bins placed on public and private property, donation centers, and curbside pickups. [24] The group has collaborated with local businesses and other organizations to place bins on their property, with an aim to make donations more convenient and thus increase recycling rates. [25]
The Giving Pledge is a charitable campaign, founded by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, to encourage wealthy people to contribute a majority (i.e. more than 50%) of their wealth to philanthropic causes.
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The organization's 2021 financial statement listed $758 million in cash donations and another $245 million in donated goods and services. 85% of its $676 million in expenses went to ministry expenses with the largest share (42%) going to their Operation Christmas Child project, 17% to emergency relief, and 7% to its medical missions.
In at least one case, bandits were waiting for them on the bus. The need for modernizing these systems is obvious. In 2009, India launched an ambitious—and largely unheralded—project to issue a 12-digit identification number to all 1.3 billion of its citizens. So far, it has spent around $880 million and registered 970 million people.
Toby Ord is one of the founders of Giving What We Can.. Giving What We Can was founded as a giving society in 2009 by Toby Ord, an ethics researcher at Oxford, his wife Bernadette Young, a physician in training at the time, and fellow ethicist William MacAskill [3] [4] [2] with the goal of encouraging people to give at least 10% of their income on a regular basis to alleviate world poverty. [5]