Philanthropy or Charity?

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AustinP

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What’s your take on this? There seems to be a lot of concern about how money is spent. How would you differentiate between the two? Would you ever want to give back to society or your Alma Mater or anything? Apart from the homosexual jokes that are to follow, are you going to be a part of ‘improving’ the world? How do you intend to do it?

I think we belong to a very prominent society of people and wickedfire has some of the most influential individuals of our times. I think we step up and show the world that below the dickrolling, we want to share and help give the future a reason to smile? Quit thinking about CPAs and adsense or whatever shit you’re doing. Take a breather and find out what you want to do one day in life. I sure as hell aint taking my money to the grave with me!
 


Shaz07 said:
Definitely will give back to the world, a lot more than I am doing now. There is just a certain type of happiness that comes with giving back to those who need it that I can't find elsewhere.
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Question is how do you intend to give back?
 
kingofsp said:
I volunteer my time with the youth. They are our future, after all.
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What kind of volunteering you do? I was born in catholic household and was forced to join the parish youth. I did some volunteering back in the day but then realized the church is one giant mafia.
 
I give back.

in taxes.

I'd probably start a foundation to get rid of organized religions.
 
^^^^^^^
LOL. Ive always been under the impression that taxes are never utilized constructively. And the day organized religion dies, that'll be the day unicorns grow a fifth foot.
 
AustinP said:
Question is how do you intend to give back?
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Honestly right now it's in the form of donations, but I do plan on starting scholarship funds, sponsoring some children overseas, and of course donating more. I rather have some personal connection though rather than giving to charities and letting them deal with it. Nothing wrong with that, I just enjoy actually knowing the person(s) I've helped personally.
 
Shaz07 said:
Honestly right now it's in the form of donations, but I do plan on starting scholarship funds, sponsoring some children overseas, and of course donating more. I rather have some personal connection though rather than giving to charities and letting them deal with it. Nothing wrong with that, I just enjoy actually knowing the person(s) I've helped personally.
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Sponsoring kids overseas sounds to be worth the squeeze. Im trying to get a school started in a remote Indian village. TBH, Id rather have Indians taking over the world rather than our far eastern friends.
 
AustinP said:
What’s your take on this? There seems to be a lot of concern about how money is spent. How would you differentiate between the two? Would you ever want to give back to society or your Alma Mater or anything? Apart from the homosexual jokes that are to follow, are you going to be a part of ‘improving’ the world? How do you intend to do it?

I think we belong to a very prominent society of people and wickedfire has some of the most influential individuals of our times. I think we step up and show the world that below the dickrolling, we want to share and help give the future a reason to smile? Quit thinking about CPAs and adsense or whatever shit you’re doing. Take a breather and find out what you want to do one day in life. I sure as hell aint taking my money to the grave with me!
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Never mind the money- money is easy. Give TIME.

Mentor Youth. Teach. Coach Football. Soccer. Get involved. Be a role model. This is for the dads, mainly. Too many fucking "Super-Soccer-Moms" teaching your kids how to act. Do the hard stuff- give TIME.

And use good sentence structure. "Above" or "Besides" the Dickrolling would be more appropriate than "Below" ;)
 
AustinP said:
Sponsoring kids overseas sounds to be worth the squeeze. Im trying to get a school started in a remote Indian village. TBH, Id rather have Indians taking over the world rather than our far eastern friends.
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Looks interesting. I am ready to help in any form you might need
 
As we were born as humans must have a nature of giving an helping hand to the people in need..which gives beautiful meaning to life..
 
I'm a Rotarian, as square as that sounds. Besides the social aspect, we donate time and money to our local community. And what turns me on the most is the leverage of my donations to the global platform, with no money going to admin or governments. When Rotary sends money to third world countries, say for wells or food, it goes straight into the hands of the end users, and never goes through bureaucracy or government first.
An example of the leverage is, my clug has 250 members. We raise, say, $5,000 for a school in Chang Mai, Thailand. That's $20 each member. Our district doubles that and adds to ours, so now it's $15,000. Then, Rotary International doubles that again and adds to the principle - so now it's $45,000. (This really happened just recently in our club). $45,000 goes a hell of a long way in Thailand (when it doesn't fall into government hands first!). `
 
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