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How to Start a Good Charity Drive

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There are people who really want to devote some time they have in helping out other people. But the purpose for putting up charity drives would have to define what they are designed for and what they intend to accomplish. People would resort to medical missions, conducting community service in helping out shorthanded foundations to take care of the people under their wing.

Volunteering for Charity

It should however be noted that all this work is purely for volunteering and not strictly required. It is done out of entirely an open heart with no expectations of anything in return. This is the charity way of living, sharing and spreading the love that other people look for to which they have stumbled and almost fallen.

Such a task has been left under the wing of people who stand and believe in something that should be done for the oppressed. All it takes is identifying and matching the people to do the said work at the proper time.

[tags]charity, foundations, community service, volunteering[/tags]

Originally posted on July 1, 2007 @ 6:25 pm

Charities… For Real!!!!! ( Part 1)

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There are millions upon millions of charities out there and the new year is the best time to begin with a helping hand to those who needs it the most. True, charity should have no suspicion and other nuances but with the many fraudsters out there, one simply does not know whom they can trust to get their money to those they aim to help.

Best to get information from the many online charity organizations and web sites to get a glimpse at the scope and type of work the said charity does for your country of choice or target field. You can check out America’s Charities, Give.org, The Charity Navigator, Just Give.org, The Angel Network among some of the many charity resources out there that can help you in your quest to a more oriented and hassle-free drive to help others.

Ask your family and friends if they have knowledge in the area and to allow you to get more of the localized resources available. Don’t have much to give but still want to help and have spare time? Donate your time and help make the world a better place. There are many charities that allow volunteers to play parts in their various activities. Volunteer your services which may prove to be indispensable during their many outreach programs. Mostly any skills can have a place in charitable organizations, many of which rely on other people like you to provide the bulk of their manpower needs.

Still not sure who to trust? Ask the government social services organizations or other Non-Government Organizations on who they work with (many of them work in coordination with others to provide or make up for needed resources). Companies who have or sponsor charities are more likely to get help from the government in the form of many benefits which can be seen in the many tax-deductions and other perks.

Originally posted on October 17, 2007 @ 8:00 pm

Charity Foundations are Non-Profit Organizations

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Practically anyone must be wondering, do all donations given to the known charitable institutions in their region actually reach their intended purpose of helping the actual people in need? Technically, the common man would care less but each penny or in kind donations are totally for the account of the people housed and targeted for such aids and donations.

Non Profit Charity Organizations

These charity organizations are non-profit organizations. They are purely for voluntary aid and work to serve people and endeavors in need. While the immediate understanding that people in need would be the main beneficiaries, there are other causes such as disaster victims, and other individuals who would find themselves on the losing end.

But just the same, the aim of such foundations and organizations is to purely offer help and support in any form possible. It is not about how much or what to give. It is about the use and extending that helping hand to help them in their unfortunate predicaments caused by varying events that have come into their lives.

[tags]non-profit, foundations, organizations, volunteer, charity[/tags]

Originally posted on May 23, 2007 @ 9:15 am

Even the Celebrities Do Charity Work

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Famous personalities in the area of entertainment and sports do their own way of helping out needy charitable institutions and foundations, making it a requirement for them to be able to share part of their time and earnings to people who are in dire need of them. Children and people who do not have the blessings that most of the success stories of people known in the world today are very much appreciative of such efforts.

Celebrity Charity

There have been a lot of campaigns and benefit events done each year for a certain cause. A lot of them are done out of charity, some to provide and answer the needs of people and so on. Whatever the cause may be, everything is aimed at answering the needs of people who seek comfort in the best way possible.

The level of satisfaction of such people is entirely different from the normal standards that people live on, and such is to be expected considering extending a helping hand is the important agenda of it all.

[tags]charity, events, celebrities[/tags]

Originally posted on March 13, 2007 @ 7:07 pm

Taking Time Out to Spend Quality Time with Charity Institutions

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Time is gold and money for most. But time and attention is important as well to people who are left in institutions that house most of the abandoned children and elders today. The attention that they seek is the attention that they lost from the day that they were left out in the cold for people who simply cannot face responsibility in the way that it should be.

Unconditional Love and Affection

Attention and time for these people do not need to be in the form of cash and goods. It is more on providing care and a crying shoulder for most since all their problems and woes are totally kept within them. Storing all of these and not being able to let out emotions is as hard as it gets. But people just don�t seem to care much for others since they obviously have not matured enough to take on responsibilities that people should be always aware of.

[tags]charity, institutions, foundations, attention[/tags]

Originally posted on March 3, 2007 @ 6:19 pm

Looking Through the Eyes of Despair

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Eyes of Despair

A lot can be said about a person by one glance of their eyes. Expressions can be extracted from a person�s eyes and this is something that can be obviously connoted up close. Especially for children who are certainly innocent and are no experts in hiding inner emotions and feelings, it is but normal to get a prelude to what they are experiencing at the moment. It is simply something that is hard to find.

While the whole story of such plights of lesser fortunate siblings cannot be entirely assessed, it does not take a person to understand why such people would be found in that predicament. But people do not really need to hear their story as most would come from typical mishaps such as financial and lesser responsible people who start to become selfish at certain points of their lives.

Siblings are the victims of such selfish acts and bearing the brunt for them is totally unacceptable.

[tags]children, charity, foundations, beggars, streetchildren[/tags]

Originally posted on August 1, 2007 @ 5:45 pm

Working for Charities, a life changing experience

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Volunteers.jpgAsk anyone who has done charity work and they would all give you the same answer, it’s worth the risk and effort. Humans have long since accepted the fact that there are those who have and those who don’t. This can be in terms of food, health care, housing and so on and so forth. Many people even in the United States suffer and go on living everyday without some of life’s basics. Healthcare is one of the most problematic areas for as prices rise due to cost of implementation, more and more people are finding it difficult to afford the amount of protection they need. That’s where charities step in and augment the system by providing services and skills that would otherwise have to be paid for by the government which is currently feeling the strain of a pending recession.

May it be in curb-side health checks to neighborhood kitchens, these help Americans feed the homeless and other people in need without a need for the tons of forms and other requirements of government services. The elderly and foreign immigrants, many of whom are illegal are the ones who suffer most. Even with recent drives to overhaul and re-work the health care system, there is still much to be done in terms of getting the job done and getting the services and resources to those who need them most.

Volunteers know that the simple task of treating a person with dignity and recognizing them for who they are is worth a thousand words to these people who repay your generosity with unspoken words. Volunteer work is still one of the most rewarding experiences for and individual for it has rewards that are without bounds. Call it heart-warming but getting gratitude from someone who does not have anything is more than enough to make your day a happy and self-fulfilled one that no one can take away from you.

Originally posted on February 1, 2008 @ 1:26 pm

The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson�s Research

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The best way to fight disease and illnesses is to be actually experiencing them and trying to find ways to combat them. Such was the motivation that popular celebrity actor Michael J. Fox that brought him to put up this foundation in May, 2000. Fox was diagnosed in 1998 as having a young-onset Parkinson�s disease. Instead of looking for a cure on his own, he turned to making it a foundation to be able to help and make research on how to cure or fight the dreaded disease that has accumulated over $90,000.00 to date.

michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research

While there has still been no clear cure for Parkinson�s, Fox still believes that there is hope and that people suffering from it will eventually triumph against it. Donations are continuously racking in and such funds are the basis for making the aggressive research of the foundation advanced and possible to finally discover proper therapies and cures for Parkinson�s disease.

[tags]parkinsons, disease, charity, foundations[/tags]

Originally posted on March 7, 2007 @ 7:40 pm

Giving to Charity Wholeheartedly

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We all here that giving to charity is a good Samaritan�s deed. Sadly, people are not entirely aware of why they are doing charity work. Some would even do it for building their image or for some other reason to get attention and commendations for their supposed efforts. However, it has been forgotten that charities are done for the purpose of lending a helping hand without expecting anything in return. The only probable return is the feeling of happiness where a person is able to contribute his way towards actually helping people in need of it.

Volunteers for Charity

Charity work should always come from the heart and not the mind. Taking into consideration that people have the excess funds and resources to donate and help people who have misfortunes in their means of living is something that will depend on the actual purpose for helping them out. Charity and donation should be done with an open heart, the reward of which is the tingling feeling we all feel inside for contributing to a worthy cause.

[tags]charity, programs, foundations, disabled, street children[/tags]

Originally posted on February 23, 2007 @ 5:09 pm

The Program called Donations and Medical Missions

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We would often see people living in the not so decent parts of the country. Satisfying themselves with living in the trash like parts of the world for the reason of not being able to sustain them in the proper financial manner is only normal. Not all people are blessed with a good career nor output in life and such sites can really solicit the unwavering help that people would not hesitate to give today.

Medical Missions

No matter how hard some people would try, luck just won�t smile all the time. For a good cause, some people would band together and create efforts to help the people in need in most cases. Donations in the form of cash, goods and medicine go a long way. While some of these efforts would not be immediately appreciated by the able people, the ones who really have no budget will surely appreciate and embrace such gifts with open arms.

[tags]medical missions, donations, charity[/tags]

Originally posted on February 11, 2007 @ 5:33 pm