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What’s food got to do with it?
The Life You Can Save's blog usually talks about the challenge of extreme poverty and best ways to combat it, along with big and small ways in…
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Effective Giving
The Canonisation of Inefficiency – Why we need to do better than Mother Teresa and the Vatican
The well-founded and well-documented criticism that has been lobbed at Mother Teresa since the mid-1990s has largely failed to shake her public perception as a saint.…
Effective Giving
Why your inner control freak needs taming when it comes to charitable giving
Some time ago, I had a conversation with a friend about charitable giving. She said that one of the reasons she was giving locally rather than…
Setting and Achieving Giving Goals
The Busy Person’s Guide to Charitable Giving
You've been wanting to donate money to help the poor for a while now, but there's just so much to think about: You want your money…
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Can’t shake that abstract feeling?
US $3 for a mosquito net, help someone see for US A$35, A$20 for vegetable seeds for a family in Timor-Leste – we've all seen the…
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7 Ways to Rock Your Charity Gifts this Holiday Season
We all know the feeling: It's ten days until Christmas and there's that one aunt, that one friend you haven't yet found a present for. Maybe…
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Hitting Up Your Friends for Donations – Five Successful Strategies (part 2)
I recently had the idea to fundraise with a "Coffee Challenge" amongst my friends and family, but my efforts were off to a slow start. So…
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Hitting Up Your Friends for Donations: A Beginner’s Guide (part 1)
A while ago, I read that Australians spend more money on coffee than on donations. Not surprisingly, perhaps, as we have very good coffee over here,…
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Why does tax deductibility feel so important?
I live in Australia and often find myself strangely reluctant to sign up for an overseas charity that isn't tax deductible. These are great organisations that…