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Homeless: You Can Help

Often you hear that argument that someone won’t give money to a homeless person because “they’re just going to waste it on drugs or booze”. But if you look a little closer you’ll see that the rest of us spend money on unnecessary things every day. Why don’t we apply that same thinking to ourselves? How can you help? This video explains... >Full Story

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Money Only Does 5 Things

What would you do if you won a million dollars? I’d buy a small house and then hop on the first flight to Australia to meet my nephew. I’d travel, I’d give some away. I would buy more books. I would probably splurge on a really, really nice necklace. When we think about money we tend to dream or to... >Read More

Tags: budget, Culture, finances, giving, investment, Michael Gibney, Money, World

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AFTERSHOCK: an Update from Haiti

After a massive 6.1 aftershock rocked Port-au-Prince once again this week, we received an urgent message from our Canadian GAiN staff in Haiti. "After spending the past 5 days seeing, feeling and smelling the destruction and massive loss of life from the earthquake just over one week ago, I am deeply moved. I realized that I would never have made...... >Read More

Tags: charity, disaster, earthquake, emergency, giving, Global Aid Network, Haiti, helping, hope, Men, Women

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Doing Much with Little

It’s easy to think that charity is something someone else should do, someone who has a lot more money than I do. But the truth is this: it is my responsibility too and I am neither as powerless nor as “un-rich” as I might sometimes think. Wealth and opportunity are incredibly subjective. Those of us who eat three... >Read More

Tags: charity, donate, economy, giving, helping people

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