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STEVE MATTHEWS, spokesman for the charity World Vision, blasting critics of aid organizations' relief efforts in Haiti
Electronic donations have been increasing steadily over the past decade. While old-fashioned donations have declined recently due to the recession, online giving actually grew in 2009. One online charity portal, Network for Good, reported that the number of donations nearly doubled last year, and the dollar value of donations...
Increasing the quantity of individual donations through technological means is unquestionably a positive good. Even the most cynical scrooge would admit that domestic charities make our cities more livable and that foreign aid boosts our country’s reputation abroad. However, the shift to online forms of charity will...
For instance, online donors may be less particular about their choice of charity. This is not necessarily a bad thing, because niche or religious charities can sometimes impose irrelevant political or cultural values on foreign aid, such as religious organizations restricting condoms in regions devastated by AIDS. Yet the reality...
Harvard sent Mavraides back to the charity stripe, where he knocked down the first and missed the second, putting the Tigers’ lead at five.