...When Greed Gives Way to Giving Emmie Hester Professor Lisa Hemphill English 090 December 2, 2012 The audience for this essay is the readers of a newspaper in Miami, Florida. The newspaper is called the Miami-Herald. The writer is a columnist for them. I know this because the introduction of the essay specifically mentions these facts. The main audience is the readers of the column, but in some cases such as this, the piece can reach further. This article made it into our textbook. One purpose of this essay was to tell people about the charitable works of one person in particular. The author then used this man’s generous gift to his employees to discuss charitable giving by people as a whole. The author’s main purpose for writing this story was to tell the readers about this special man, and to encourage all readers to reflect on charitable giving. I know this because I read the essay, and because the story starts by telling us of a man named Ben Thompson. The story then goes on to ask questions of the reader. The reader is asked in the next to last paragraph to consider their own charitable giving. The thesis statement is the last sentence of the first paragraph. “Instead, Thompson decided to share the wealth”. The author goes on to embellish this sentence by giving the details behind this statement. She tells the readers about this man’s amazing decision to give a huge portion of the money he received from the sale of his company back to his employees, including people...
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...interesting concept Singer has is his actual solution to world poverty, which basically describes people donating any money not spent on necessities to charities. Although, I am in line with the fact that the U.S. consumer has been brainwashed into thinking they are purchasing necessities and have shown a lack of judgment for understanding when they are purchasing necessities versus when they are purchasing luxuries, I do not agree that is a reason to give away all of your extra income to charities around the world. This is an extremely unrealistic amount that does not align with how a large population of our society thinks about personal wealth. The words need and want are used interchangeably in American culture and this causes us to trick ourselves into believing we should be buying unnecessary items. For example, even when we are speaking about things we want, we often say we need them because it highlights how badly we want that item. Things that you want could give you a goal to work towards, but when you think about things that you need you are liable to feel bad about yourself or less than others if you do not have these items. A huge reason why many of us do not donate substantial amounts of money is because we do not believe we have the money to do so, but in fact we do have the extra money to donate to charities, we just chose to spend it other wise. We are not taking responsibility of our actions and our thoughts. As a society, we have come to think of many things...
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...different entities. Catholic Charities sees stakeholders as individuals, businesses, corporations, groups, suppliers, or organizations that have an interest or concern in them. The primary objective of Catholic seeks to balance each stakeholders in, maximizing their value and efficiently managing individual self interests and expectations to create value in order to serve their primary goal of strengthening the lives of all in need by giving help that empowers and hope that lasts. To this end we affirm and support the dignity of all human life, strengthen families and serve the poor and most vulnerable. Stakeholders for Catholic Charities include the various businesses that use Catholic Charities fundraising causes for networking events. Included are also the employees and beneficiaries of Catholic Charities. Catholic Charities does an amazing job fundraising, with an average of 5% of the revenue going to funding the events and 95% going to charitable contributions. One way they can increase fundraising to their stakeholders is potentially combining events with charitable acts. They could form a subsidiary catering group and based on availability, try and employ job seekers to staff their fundraising events such as their wine tasting, snowball, ect…. They would become less dependent on donors and potentially help people build their resumes and contact/recommendation lists to find gainful and more permanent employment opportunities. Catholic charities could also provide volunteer...
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...Yulisa Flores Performance task B: Risking it all for fifteen minutes of fame Why risk it all for fifteen minutes of fame? So much people sacrifice their lives on the daily just to set a new world record. Why do people risk it all like that when it’s not even worth it? Risking your life just to set a new record or be in Guinness’s world record book isn’t worth it. What’s after that what if you die just to have a nice fifteen minutes of fame? Is it really worth it? People such as Abby Sunderland or Jordan Romero that risks it all just to be famous. There is various theories on what could happen to a young teenager such as Jordan when climbing a mountain. Theories say that a young teenager’s brain is more vulnerable than the average adult’s brain. Jordan might have climbed the seven peaks of Mount Everest along with his parents that doesn’t mean that he couldn’t have gotten some type of brain damage up there. He isn’t even 16 and he already wants to set a new world record, when he knows that so many risks are involved. Another example, Abby Sunderland. Abby Sunderland was a sixteen year old girl who decided to sail the oceans of the world only to get trapped in the Indian Ocean because her mast broke down because of the waves. She was left with o navigation gear left so she could continue her journey. Point is there is so many things that could happen to you as a human being and all for what? What’s the point of risking your life to set a new world record if three...
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..."Give and it shall be given unto you" are the first lines of a popular gospel song generally sung during offering time. When I think of philanthropy, this song comes to mind. Philanthropists charitably give without seeking a tangible return. They receive emotional rewards such as happiness, satisfaction, and many more. According to Berkeley University, “giving feels good when you make it a choice, make a connection, and make an impact.” This is why I would be honored to be a part of this Youth Philanthropy Committee. As a boy scout, giving is an important aspect of my life. Our Boy Scout Motto is “Do a good turn daily.” I strive everyday to do that good turn. It has been my decision the 4 years that I have been in the program that giving is my good turn. Whether it be time, money, or even knowledge, I give everyday. As a member of the Youth Philanthropy Committee I will continue my good turn in giving to charitable organizations. Within Boy scouts, choice is a big thing. We have to chose to show up on time, and chose to go to events and do requirements to eventually reach the rank of Eagle Scout. Just a couple a few months ago I volunteered at the Hands against Hunger project in Cincinnati. From this experience, I gained an undisclosed knowledge of how people really struggled in rural places such as Haiti. It taught how to be a charitable giver in my everyday life, and I will apply this experience to the rest of career. While my ability to make choices is one reason I would...
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...Just a week before Thanksgiving, Leslie Jessop-Watkins and the local State Farm team held a luncheon on last Thursday to recognize the community’s public service men and women whose work oftentime go unnoticed. Benefiting from the everyday jobs the City of Blythe’s public employees do to keep the community safe and secure, Jessop-Watkins and staff went the extra mile on last week, celebrating and awarding those who successfully keeps the city running smoothly. As the luncheon provided the special guests all the fixings and trimmings of a Thanksgiving feast, Jessop-Watkins’ aim of showing her appreciation for the priceless value to The City of Blythe Code Enforcement, Volunteer Fire and Public Works Department was indeed a remarkable gesture for all who attend. According to her speech to the crowd wearing white, orange and blue collars, Jessop-Watkins said the thought of giving back and doing something nice for the city employees, came about after the flood that happened late last summer. “It was right after the flood, after seeing the flags go down Hobson Way yet one more time and after seeing Jason writing a ticket out in front of his truck,” Jessop-Watkins said. Due to the drastic cut in the city’s budget almost a decade ago, the local agent manager said she applaud all those who work for the City of Blythe, because “It takes the entire team, from all departments, at all levels to,” succeed in making this community into what it is. With the work that the public servants...
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...THE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT – UNIT 1- ASSIGNMENT 1 P1 The two businesses’ I have chosen are ASDA and OXFAM. Both are business are hugely recognised, but differ in their business approach. Asda’s aim is to provide a variety of food/necessities/clothing/fuel and to make a profit of these sales, but still provide them at a competitive rate. However Oxfam’s aim is to aid those who are less fortunate by providing clothing, food, shelter at no cost. Oxfam has no intention of making profit as it is a charitable business. This compares to Asda who do want to make a profit, for their providing of goods to customers. Both businesses are in fact similar in the way that they provide, but one (Oxfam) is less profit probing than the other. ASDA Asda is an English based supermarket/stall. Formed in the 1920’s by English farmers, it is now part of the Wal-Mart family. Wal-Mart is an American based business who specialise in similar activities as Asda does in the UK. Wal-Mart bought Asda in 1999 for approximately 6.7bn. Asda is an international business as it operates on quite a large scale in certain countries around the world. This is because it is part of the Wal-Mart family, which operates internationally. Asda provides customer service by providing goods to customers for a price. These goods include clothing (George), food, technology items. Asda have both business and ethical aims and objectives. One of the most obvious aims is to provide locals with a variety of purchasing choices...
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...In the wake of hurricane Sandy many people were forced to take time off work in order to get their personal lives back in order and in many cases the time that was taken off exceeded their paid time off. This prompted many employers to create PTO-donation and leave sharing programs in which employees could donate the pay from their PTO to people in need. The question then came up as to how this donated compensation should be taxed. The IRS ruled that in most cases the employee who is donating the PTO must include the amount donated as compensation income. Because the donation is compensation income it is still subject to FICA and state/federal income taxes. There are a few ways these taxes may be paid; by the employee resulting in less cash for them, my the employer costing them money, or by taking it out of the donated amount resulting in a lesser donation. Because the PTO is being donated to a charitable organization on the employees behalf the employee is able to take the amount donated as a charitable contribution deduction on their tax return. Employees who do not participate in the donation program are unaffected by their choice not to participate. This is because of the doctrine of constructive receipt does not apply to them. Basically because the payments are not being directed to the charitable organization the employee is receiving the funds of their PTO themselves and will have to pay their own taxes on their own if they choose to use the money. Employees who...
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...How are charities going to have to adapt their fundraising methods in order to connect with young people in the future? Introduction. People over 60 are now more than twice as likely to give to charity as people under 30. Although on average over 60s have more disposable income to give, this is not the only reason for this statistic. This report will investigate not just how much people are giving but more importantly why some under 30s are not giving at all. If many of these 30 year olds are not giving now, what is to say they will when they are 60? Charities are going to have to adapt the way they appeal to the younger generation, through methods such as social media, to prevent the ‘industry’ from falling apart within the next 50 years. There were a number of reasons for this topic being of interest to me: I have been involved in a few sponsored events for charity, and the church I have been brought up in has had regular involvement with the charity world both in London and overseas. I am also interested in the long term in doing some voluntary charity work abroad during a gap year. Is there evidence that something has to be done to engage the younger generation? Between 1980 and 2010 the total share of giving coming from the under-30s fell from 8 per cent in 1980 to 3 per cent in 2010, while the share coming from the over-75s grew from 9 per cent in 1980 to 21 per cent in 2010. This led the ‘Mind the Gap’ report to conclude that ‘The concern is what happens when...
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...How are charities going to have to adapt their fundraising methods in order to connect with young people in the future? Introduction. People over 60 are now more than twice as likely to give to charity as people under 30. Although on average over 60s have more disposable income to give, this is not the only reason for this statistic. This report will investigate not just how much people are giving but more importantly why some under 30s are not giving at all. If many of these 30 year olds are not giving now, what is to say they will when they are 60? Charities are going to have to adapt the way they appeal to the younger generation, through methods such as social media, to prevent the ‘industry’ from falling apart within the next 50 years. There were a number of reasons for this topic being of interest to me: I have been involved in a few sponsored events for charity, and the church I have been brought up in has had regular involvement with the charity world both in London and overseas. I am also interested in the long term in doing some voluntary charity work abroad during a gap year. Is there evidence that something has to be done to engage the younger generation? Between 1980 and 2010 the total share of giving coming from the under-30s fell from 8 per cent in 1980 to 3 per cent in 2010, while the share coming from the over-75s grew from 9 per cent in 1980 to 21 per cent in 2010. This led the ‘Mind the Gap’ report to conclude that ‘The concern is what happens when...
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...Corporate Social Responsibility Social Responsibility is an obligation to any business to help improve the community or society in a positive way. In this scenario Company Q is introduced as a local grocery store that has not been having a positive impact on the community that it is serving. Company Q has closed stores in the metropolitan areas that have a crime rate in order to minimizing losing money and have denied donating day old food to charities. The company claims that if they start to donate day old product then the company employees might start to steal the food and claim they are donating it to the charity and the loss of revenue that might occur. In my opinion, Company Q has taken a non-philanthropic attitude or approach in society. Being a non-philanthropic company you are more worried about your shareholders instead of the community that provide your business. Some changes that Company Q can take in order to change their attitude in society are: donate the day old food to charity, believe in their employees that work for them, re-open the doors in the metropolitan area with more security in order to prevent the loss of profits, offer more organic products at a more efficient cost to the public, and reintroduce the company missions, values and statements to encourage the community to be proactive and shopping at a company that gives back to the community. By opening the doors to the metropolitan areas, with improved security allow the community to lower...
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...Value of Discipline, forgiveness, kindness, and patience I’m glad that I learned the value of discipline, forgiveness, kindness, and patience. As a child, I learned the value of discipline on how to get my goals done on time and plan my life in a scheduled manner. I learned how to save up all the money that I have. I had learned to forgive the people that I love. I had to learn how to be kind to some one. If you learn how to be kind, they will be nice to you. If you are patience with every one of them, then they will be patient towards you. I grew up in Singapore but was born in Hong Kong. As a child, I learned discipline in getting to school on time. I don’t know why I always get to school late, but my parents taught me well. They taught me the value of time management of which I am still working on today. As a child, I was a bit stubborn, I didn’t like math a lot, but my parents taught me anyway, on how to save up money and pay for my own expenses wisely. Today, I still save money to pay for my own expenses such as my guitar class. In conclusion, learning the value of discipline, forgiveness, patience, and kindness, taught me to be a better person. My parents taught me to always be forgiving whenever I made a mistake. I learned how to be patient when working with people and customers. Even though, other people may have made mistakes, I have learned that through my own made mistakes, I have learned to forgive people for their mistakes. I am thankful...
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...Community Service Proposal Project name : Donation of books and cloths to charity Group leader : Kelwin Tan Seen Tiong Group members : Eng Kar Fui Choo Jian Yan Soo Wei Kin Wong Chee Ken Table of contents 1. Objective(s) of the project 2. Background of the service recipients and their need (relate to your project objectives) - provide the name, address and the contact information of the person-in-charge 3. Work to be done (with Gantt chart) 4. Potential contributions / expected outcomes 5. Appendix A – Letter of approval from Community Shelter/NGO/etc Objective(s) of the project The objective of this project is support The Salvation Army of Singapore, Malaysia and Myanmar Territory by donating pre-loved items or new items to any of their centres in Malaysia. We aid by helping them in collection of books and cloths so that their social enterprise arm, the Family Thrift Stores, would be able to process the donated items and retails those that are in good conditions at their stoners which is located in Penang, Ipoh, Melaka and Kuching at affordable prices. The funds that were generated from the selling of their stores will then be used to help them in their community project and work which include donations towards oversea disasters. We strictly aim to help their service centre in Ipoh because it is nearer as we students have difficulties regarding transportation. The collectable items will then be taken to the Ipoh drop off...
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...------------------------------------------------- Moral Studies MPW 1153 Kenneth Care Home Students name : Tang Chii Haw 4316029 Eric Wong Ing Kling 4307127 Ng Taw Yuen 1.1 Background of the Kenneth Care Home Kenneth Care Home is a private ‘Old Folks Home’. It is founded for helping to take care the old people whose son or daughter busy with their work or didn’t have enough time with their parents. Besides that, it also helps to treat the old man who are sick or other. Kenneth Care Home was established in the year 2013. The founder of the Kenneth Care Home was the owner of it who are Dr. Kenneth Tan. There have 7 branches of the Kenneth Care Home in Kuchng. The Kenneth Care Home that we have visited was 6th branch of all of the branches. Currently, Kenneth Care Home is located at No. 325, Lorong Seladah 10, Jalan Seladah, OFF Jalan Song. It is near to the Cityone shopping mall. 1.2.1 Mission * To provide the high quality of care in a safe, home-like environment 1.2.2 Objectives - To be recognized as a home where residents want to live and staff choose to work. 1.2.3 Acknowledgement We would like to express our sincere gratitude and thanks to Mr.Lee Tian Aik for his guidance and his patience in assisting us to do our project community work at Kenneth Care Home. With his guidance, our project report will be more presentable after giving him to check the first draft of our report...
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...groW Make W Investing in Water; Tales from a Wealth Advisor; Robert Shiller on Wall Street Best Restaurants; First-Run Films at Home; Companies Solving Water Crises live Questions for Your Yacht Builder; WaterRelated Philanthropy; 10 Extraordinary Boats ® the evolution of financial intelligence Charting troubled Waters The Blue Issue worth.com volume 21 | edition 02 Boston, MA Leading Advisor Fidelity CharitableSM Ryan Boland, Director, Complex Asset Group “ ” When does it make sense to donate real estate to charity? By Ryan Boland While the donation of appreciated securities—stocks, bonds and mutual funds—is common, relatively few individuals donate real estate to charity. Under specific circumstances, however, such a donation can be mutually advantageous to both the giver (the owner of the real estate) and the recipient (the charitable organization). At a most basic level, those circumstances are: (1) when the property in question has significant long-term appreciation, such that the owner would incur a sizable capital gains tax upon selling it, and (2) when the property is relatively easy for the charitable organization to liquidate, with minimal chance for incurring liability or major carrying costs prior to the sale. These conditions are most frequently met by individuals seeking to donate a long-held primary or secondary home. The donation of commercial or industrial real estate...
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