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(Found on Laughing Squid)
We’ve all heard popular sayings like, “Treat others the way you would like to be treated” and “Don’t judge another until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes.” Tim and Jessie wanted to take these sentiments and literally apply them to their own lives. Based on 12-step programs designed to change behaviors, they created a 12-step experiment as a way to confront their own apathy and selfishness. For 12 months, Tim and Jessie attempted to open their hearts, eyes and minds to become kinder, more empathetic people.
Follow their story at 12kindsofkindness.com and make your own steps here.
Generosity, launched by Indiegogo, is a fundraising community built for personal and social causes.
We built Generosity to give Indiegogo users a new community for showing and sharing their compassion through personal fundraising. Generosity helps cancer patients with bills and students with tuition. Generosity boosts humanitarian efforts into new countries and helps nonprofits move quickly with their causes. Generosity fills the gap at the end of a tough month and supports the village after the storm.Generosity is human goodness on a grand scale.
The One Percent Foundation makes philanthropy accessible to Millennials+ and empowers them to change the world together. One Percent Foundation’s goal is to inspire young adults to give at least 1% of their income to philanthropic causes.
Through their programs their vision is to build a movement of young philanthropist, and I think they do a dang good job.
Release you inner philanthropist through one of their programs here.
The 1% Giving Pledge (by One Percent Foundation) is a public commitment to give at least 1% of your income to philanthropy. In other words it’s only $1 out of every $100, you can’t afford not to do this one people!
Philanthropedia is a charity rating organization/website. The site features more than 11,000 reviews from 1,400 experts who are interviewed and surveyed.The site also features rankings based on a combination of in-depth surveys and conversations with experts, including academics, funders, grant makers, policy makers and consultants.
Yeah we know, what the world doesn’t need is another app, BUT then there are those few that come around a change the game, and Instead is one of those apps.
Instead is an app that challenges you to buy less of the things that don’t really matter so that you can give more to the things that do. Like this:
“Instead of eating at the Cheesecake Factory, how about eating at Chipotle and giving the difference?” Davis suggests. “Or, instead of going to the movies, use Redbox, and give the difference.”
In an attempt to instill philanthropic values into other successful students, Berkshire Hathaway founder, Warren Buffet, who has also pledged to give away almost all of his $58 billion fortune wants to teach you how to give money away.
Warren Buffet is leading a new, free online course that will teach students how to give money away.
(via RelevantMagazine.com)
How America Gives is a tool that let’s you explore charitable giving in your state, city, and neighborhood.
IfWeRanTheWorld is a real-world experiment in turning good intentions into actions
If you ran the world what would you do?
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