GiveWell recently shared a novel way that nonprofits can improve their standings with them. Now I’d have thought an increase in rating status would require a similar sort of upward progression: an increase in efficiency, an increase in cost-effectiveness. And while these are still great things, what GiveWell was looking for was, in fact, something [...]
A month ago, I said I would come back to the topic of giving to Haiti. At the time, I thought I’d write about how I anticipated the issue to have largely dropped out of our national awareness (except for, of course, any hints of fundraising fraud), how the number of front page news articles [...]
Yesterday was something called Twestival. Lotsa lotsa folks were all a-twitter about it. It was a little tricky for me to figure out exactly what it was. The first thing I learned was that properly pronouncing “Twestival” does not, in fact, require a lisp. Even though it reeeeally feels like it. Is it likewise not [...]
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Saturday was the second time I gave to Heifer International. It’s a fine organization, but that wasn’t what prompted my repeat gift. It was because I messed it up the first time. A week or so after the first gift to Heifer, I came home to a big fat package from them in the mail. [...]
Well, I promised you a post on cause marketing. Problem is, people far smarter than me have already taken a good crack at this guy. If you’re short on time, just go and read this. And if you’re procrastinating, go and read that and then carry on! The solution to the mystery that is cause [...]
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I finished yesterday’s post just in time to have this pop up on my home page: It is not the quantity of life but the quality. When you begin to realize you don’t have too much time to live, you focus on what is most important. – Sogyal Rinpoche Sooooo much more eloquent than “wishy-washy.” [...]
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Just because I’ve been seeing this repeatedly, let’s recap: in disease research and vaccination implementation and all things health related, there isn’t really any such thing life-saving. Curing a disease or vaccinating from an illness does not mean a person becomes becomes immortal. The precise opposite is true: they will die of something else (and [...]
Today’s the last day of the mini giving circle experiment. As painful as it is for me to do so, I have to put aside my Sarcastic Blather (although I prefer to think of as my Amazing Wit) and sincerely, honestly thank my two dear friends for joining me this week in giving $10 a [...]
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