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Good morning to you
Yes my biggest charity work is working as a volunteer For Relay For Life. My motivation for this is personal, plus had some friends going through this process of healing and some passed on. You have a great day and would be interested to see what your answer would be by asking this question. A warm hug to you.

Giving to charity creates more poverty, where is your charity money going. There is no cure for where your money is going.

I support Dyscover which teaches people new communication skills after a brain injury means that people can no longer speak, read or write, known as Aphasia.

We meet at the Quaker Assembly Hall; I am now a great fan of the Quakers, the best of people. )

Some say if you advertise your good works than it diminishes them because you are looking for accolades. On the other hand some say you should tell the world the charity you do so it "normalizes" the behavior and other people will also do charity. I donate time and money to various charities. Here are some interesting factoids: 1. People who are poor give a higher percentage than wealthy people. 2. Religious people tend to be more generous. 3. The people of Myanmar are the most generous of the world in terms of number of people giving to charity followed by the US and New Zealand. 4. And although this seems to contradict number 2, atheists tend to be more generous than either Christians or Muslims while Buddhists tend to be very generous.

Yes, the parable of the widow's mite. :)

Interesting. I'd like to see the sources for those claims. I'd also like to see the breakdown among racial type, and by how much that one particular metric explains the others.

I'm a misanthrope, all my charitable giving goes to animal charities and organizations promoting the spaying and neutering of human beings.

Well I did google all those little factoids. Did they come from peer reviewed research articles? Well TBH I did not check. I was actually tempted to show the links where they came from but I learned quite a while ago that posting links on this board does not seem to be successful fpr me; they are invariably censored. But I think if you google all those little facts I casually threw out there you can source them yourself. Let me know if you find they are blatanty in error, we all need feedback here and there. Happy fact hunting and as famous US politician Daniel Moynihan once said: "You are
entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts".

1. Kids Wish Network
2. Cancer Fund of America
3. Children’s Wish Foundation International
4. American Breast Cancer Foundation
5. Firefighters Charitable Foundation
6. Breast Cancer Relief Foundation
7. International Union of Police Associations, AFL-CIO
8. National Veterans Service Fund
9. American Association of State Troopers
10. Children’s Cancer Fund of America
11. Children’s Cancer Recovery Foundation
12. Youth Development Fund
13. Committee For Missing Children
14. Association for Firefighters and Paramedics
15. Project Cure (Bradenton, FL)
16. National Caregiving Foundation
17. Operation Lookout National Center for Missing Youth
18. United States Deputy Sheriffs’ Association
19. Vietnow National Headquarters
20. Police Protective Fund
21. National Cancer Coalition
22. Woman to Woman Breast Cancer Foundation
23. American Foundation For Disabled Children
24. The Veterans Fund
25. Heart Support of America
26. Veterans Assistance Foundation
27. Children’s Charity Fund
28. Wishing Well Foundation USA
29. Defeat Diabetes Foundation
30. Disabled Police Officers of America Inc.
31. National Police Defense Foundation
32. American Association of the Deaf & Blind
33. Reserve Police Officers Association
34. Optimal Medical Foundation
35. Disabled Police and Sheriffs Foundation
36. Disabled Police Officers Counseling Center
37. Children’s Leukemia Research Association
38. United Breast Cancer Foundation
39. Shiloh International Ministries
40. Circle of Friends For American Veterans
41. Find the Children
42. Survivors and Victims Empowered
43. Firefighters Assistance Fund
44. Caring for Our Children Foundation
45. National Narcotic Officers Associations Coalition
46. American Foundation for Children With AIDS
47. Our American Veterans
48. Roger Wyburn- Mason & Jack M Blount Foundation for Eradication of Rheumatoid Disease
49. Firefighters Burn Fund
50. Hope Cancer Fund

This list was put together by the Tampa Bay Times and The Center for Investigative Reporting based on federal tax filings for the last 10 years. Charities are broken up into five main categories: children, cancer, police/law enforcement, veterans, fire and other. These fifty charities account for more than $1.35 Billion in donations. Of that, $970 million went not to victims, but to the people who collected the money. ------Boom. do good work, be a good samaritan, be a caring person,help those who need it when you can.

Yes, that's why I don't respond to chuggers. (Oh, red underline, not in dictionary yet). I like AmLisa1's post so I responded seriously.

My fav charity work was as a volunteer for the Outsiders Club. Founded by Tuppy Owens, UK's premier porn movie queen, her idea was to help those who are socially isolated to have an adult sex life. I discovered that many small charities struggle to get any donations at all. They were not fashionable.

Anyway, a good thread.

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hello to u 2 :)

Hola ! Good luck :)

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Hola Daria :)

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hmmm... not every host finds this sort of promotion in a general forum is helpful. "Erotic" is a pretty broad category.

I am reminded of a friend who ran his own service business. When asked about referrals he said, "Send me the good ones. I can find the a$$holes all by myself."

lol

quite prudent . quite prudent.- seemsreall-y precise

LOL...for those of us who work with the public in what ever way...be it host or other wise, assholes are part of the job. I think hosts might see more than their share because the assholes are protected by being in our virtual world. But I do recall working in restaurants many years ago and coming to the conclusion buying a meal is like buying a ticket to be an asshole for some people. I keep trying to figure out what percent of the population are just jerks......born that way..and will die that way. I am thinking +/-5 percent. Ofc being human these are the ones I/we remember and dwell on. What is your guess?

I don't work directly with the public... prefer to be behind the scenes... so I don't have a percentage in mind. But the degree of assholeness (the Jerk meter?) is probably directly proportional to the sense of entitlement a person feels. So at least 1% I"m sure :))))))

On the other hand it never hurts to be grateful for what you have.

As regards 00Juliette00, she is a gracious and warm person who speaks English well & can converse across a range of topics. In addition to being "erotic" (I gotta keep this on topic :))))) )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1DpNP0RQNo
;)
shhh

Yes, +/-5% was about right for me with homestay students. +5% were friends for life, -5%, I'm amazed I survived the course without the police being called in, e.g. an alcoholic airline pilot, an insane banker and the lady who disappeared for 4 days, returned and said she'd spent all the money she was supposed to have paid me. Thank God for the +5%!

Topic went from erotic to assholes...you dirty devils :-)

..''and I'm not the instigator , and you do not come to blows''.....
:P(old russian proverb)

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Jajajajaj Goddesse

All the money you make and you offer 50 cents...

"Money makes the world go around...the world go around...the world go around." (Liza Minelli). And greetings by these means, mate.

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Money, money, money...mmmmm...Liza's legs started my leg and lingerie needs :)

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True. We need something interesting or controversial to argue about.
In the probably not so immortal lyrics of Bonnie Raitt: "Let's give them something to talk about / A little mystery to figure out / Let's give them something to talk about / How about love, love, love, love?"

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Does anyone really look at billboards? ;-)

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