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Fundamentals of charity Main Series: Understanding Global Charity

Where does the money come from and where does it go?

Now that we’ve gotten our heads around the size and structure of global charity, we’re ready to plunge into the questions “Where does the money come from?” and “Where does it go?”. But – I want to do that while striking a balance between data granularity and readability. We are talking about a grand total […]

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Fundamentals of charity Main Series: Understanding Global Charity

How much money is spent on global charity?

First of all, why exactly should we care about the size of the charity “market”? Well, it’s interesting to know, for one thing. We might be looking forward to confirming our preconceptions, or to be surprised. Before I started writing this series, I had a kind of a sweet expectation that my research would land […]

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Fundamentals of charity Main Series: Understanding Global Charity

What should be considered charity?

Meet Jane. Jane owns a manufacturing company and has quite a bit of money, and she wants to use that money to help those in need. Specifically, she’d like to help people get out of poverty. Jane considers some options for how she might accomplish that: She can donate money to her local church that […]

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Main Series: Understanding Global Charity

Series introduction: Understanding Global Charity

On Friday March 11th 2011, at quarter to three in the afternoon, the tectonic plate beneath Honshu, Japan’s largest island, had finally gotten enough. For centuries it had been pushed and shoved by the neighboring Pacific plate, wedging against it at a gradual pace of some 8 to 9 centimeters per year. As a result, […]