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A Hindu woman giving alms (painting by Raja Ravi Varma) Charitable giving is the act of donating money, goods, or time to the less fortunate, either directly or through a charitable trust or another worthy cause. [6] Charitable giving as a religious act or duty is referred to as almsgiving or alms.
American Cancer Society offices in Washington, D.C.. A charitable organization [1] or charity is an organization whose primary objectives are philanthropy and social well-being (e.g. educational, religious or other activities serving the public interest or common good).
Serving Charity is an international interfaith non-profit organization based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Its mission is to serve the poor through charity and selfless service. Mother Teresa of Calcutta is expressed to be the sole inspiration for the organization and all of its initiatives. [1] Serving Charity was founded in 2003 by Abbas ...
The Catholic Church operates numerous charitable organizations.. Catholic spiritual teaching includes spreading the Gospel, while Catholic social teaching emphasises support for the sick, the poor and the afflicted through the corporal and spiritual works of mercy.
Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New York is one of the largest charitable organizations in the New York metropolitan area.It is a federation made up of 90 social service agencies throughout the 10 counties of the Archdiocese of New York - Bronx, Dutchess, New York, Orange, Putnam, Richmond, Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster and Westchester.
Mercy Ships is an international charity based non-governmental organization [1] that operates the largest non-governmental hospital ships in the world, [2] providing surgical care and surgical education in Africa, community development projects, community health education, mental health programs, agriculture projects, and palliative care for terminally ill patients.
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Toby Ord is one of the founders of Giving What We Can.. Giving What We Can was launched as a giving society in 2009 by Toby Ord, an ethics researcher at Oxford, his wife Bernadette Young, a physician in training at the time, and fellow ethicist William MacAskill [3] [4] [2] with the goal of encouraging people to give at least 10% over the course of their working life to alleviate world poverty ...