Today, we have a growing number of unfortunate individuals within our society that need our help, and with that increasing number our charities and nonprofit organizations need help. A nonprofit organization is an organization with the purpose of which is something other than making a profit. A charity is voluntarily giving such like money to the ones in need. With a wide variety of choices to pick from to help the unfortunate they also need help in choosing who to donate too. In an article "Where Does All the Money Go? An Investigation of Donation Filtration" by Saher Shaikh and Carolan McLarney, they will remind us that it 's never too early to teach one to do a good deed. On the other hand, authors Christopher Blattman, and Paul Niehaus write "Show them the Money: Why Giving Cash Helps Alleviate Poverty," in this article they ponder if giving livestock such like food is better for the needy than giving cash to help them get by. There are many families that wouldn’t mind receiving the food assistance, there are many who need the financial help. As these authors point out helping the needy can be a big task to take on with a big accomplishment to fill, and now there are many choices to donate too, but with the help of today’s society that accomplishment of helping the needy can be met.
Many may be quick to say that learning to help the unfortunate can 't be taught after a certain point in life, or that only the rich and fortunate ones can donate. In an article written by
George is addressing the important issue of the perception of poverty in the United States at this time. She brings up many valid points about the perceptions of poverty in the United States and how nonprofit organizations perpetuate this narrow view of what poverty is in order to elicit contributions (676). Moreover, George is able to show how Habitat for Humanity while helping many people in need. Also gives the false idea that people living in poverty merely need some volunteers to build them a home and then they will be able to work their way right out of poverty (678). Given these points, Prof. George explains, the idea that people in the United States living poverty all live in squalor or are homeless does nothing but limit people’s knowledge of what true people in need actually look like (682). By the same token, when it comes to the actual individuals in need, many of them might not even realize or want to admit that they are in need themselves (682-683). One limiting factor of Prof. George’s article is that she narrowly focuses on one nonprofit organization to show how the majority of nonprofit organizations portray people in
In "Changing the Face of Poverty: Nonprofits and the Problem of Representation" Diana George explains how positively changing the way poor people are represented in the world throughout every aspect of life is a huge progression that challenges everyone to look at the face of poverty a different way, and will not be able to turn away.
Emily Andrews argues in her essay “Why I Don’t Spare “Spare Change”” that it does more harm than good to give money to beggars on the street rather than giving to an organization such as United Way to help the needy, pointing out that “one cannot be certain that one is giving to a needy individual” and that by giving to a charitable organization “ones money is likely to be used wisely.”
Everyone has a dream or something they want to follow in life. Some want material gain while others want to help as many people as they can. I’m not saying wanting material gain is a bad thing, but what I am saying is that for me, money is not the number one concern when my dream is to help others. My hunger to help others only grows by the day. Because of what’s going on in the world we live in today, I believe that it is important that those who are less fortunate than others have the assistance they need to get to an even playing field, health-wise, with others.
Mark Twain says greed is another of man’s failings. Of course, man is somewhat greedy. But, lots of men know how to control their greed, and also know to do favor for others. In other words, they are thoughtful (kind) and have mercy. For this moment, numberless charities are gathering the helpers and donations to support others who suffer by hunger and poorness. For a common example, there’s UNICEF. They work for saving children in hunger, teach them basic education and gender equality, try to prevent HIV & AIDS to children, protect children from violence, exploitation and abuse, and do policy advocacy and partnerships. They do these things only for the needy.
Diana George’s article “Changing the Face of Poverty: Nonprofits and the Problem of Representation” focuses on the relation between the society and the issue of poverty. She starts by mentioning that a holiday was approaching, Thanksgiving, “...Thanksgiving is near.” (235) and that some nonprofit organizations will publicise ads to collect money from people. They will send ads via the mailbox and this is an effective way for them to communicate. She addresses some publications and the rise of poverty over the years. She presents the occurrence of poverty throughout the city of London and New York, including photographs that depict the disaster of the Great Depression.
There are many things in our lives that we take for granted, such as food and clothing that are not accessible to a big portion of the population. This surplus of things that most of us have can easily be given to people who are in dire need of them. Personally, I had an abundance of clothes from when I was younger. They were things I was never going to wear again and were simply being stored, unused. Knowing that, I decided to donate the clothes to an organization that will then donate it to people who need it. My contribution was going to help someone out there in need and that felt significant. Food is also something that a lot of people do not have access to. From my peers, I notice that a
We all heard countless solutions on how to solve world poverty. In Peter Singer’s article “Rich and Poor”, he discusses how he thinks this problem can be fixed. Singer claims that we all have a responsibility to support people who are in extreme need and are suffering from absolute poverty. Singer believes that poverty could be fixed if people give up their luxuries and give the money that they spent on unnecessary things to those who are destitute. In Singer 's mind, we all have a duty to give until we are no longer able to, or until the problem with the world poverty will be solved. Singer feels that it is necessary for people who are more wealthy to help those who are less fortunate by donating money right away to organizations that help fight poverty. In his opinion, by not helping those in need we are negatively responsible for their suffering and thus failing to live a moral life.
Peter Singer’s central idea focuses around how grim death and suffering from lack of food, shelter and medical care really is. He further argues that if we can prevent something this unfortunate from happening, without sacrificing anything morally significant, we ought to do it. In other words, as privileged citizens, we ought to prevent all of the death and suffering that we can from lack of food, shelter and medical care from happening by giving our money and resources to charity (Chao, 2016, in-class discussion). In the terms of this argument, death and suffering from poverty are preventable with the
Similarly, as with any social issue, arrangement creators' reactions to neediness will rely on upon the way the issue is characterized. On the off chance that the root issue is social and political disparity, then the best possible approach may be to even out riches. On the off chance that, on the other hand, destitution includes the breakdown of the arrangement of good commitments among social strata, the arrangement may be to broaden philanthropy toward the commendable poor while amending the conduct of the unworthy.
In the article, Feeding the Hungry, Narveson answers the general questions about the different types of moral questions that we have about starving. Narveson argues whether feeding the hun-gry is an act of justice or charity. Throughout this article, he establishes a distinction between jus-tice and charity. He defines the demands of justice as something that could be enforced. In Nar-veson’s perspective, charity is defined as something that, “comes ‘from the heart’: charity means, roughly, caring an, emotionally tinged desire to benefit other people just because they need it” (233).
For I need to make the best choices I can, because the edges in life can be thin. I need to engage life as actively as possible, because it can be short and I must always try to do the right things in the right way. Why do we donate money, our time or volunteer? Because it’s the right thing to do. Since I was little I was taught to help people in need, to feed people that are starving, to volunteer my time for instance to help build shelters. For this case study, I would donate money to any appealing good project or cause; however, I am very aware that the money I donate; might not be allocated appropriately or be misused but that’s the risk I’m willing to take as a contributor. I want to belief people will do the right thing and use the money
Helping people is a noble thing to do especially when it comes to the application of natural justice, where human beings help those who are suffering. There is always a hidden intention in every action that is obscured by the notion of philanthropy. Returned favors expectation might not be the ultimate intention as to why people may perform an act (Michael, 1978). However, it will be illogical to say that these intentions were
Peter Singer said; “If it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to do it” (Famine, Affluence, and Morality). As human beings, we have a moral compulsion to help other people, despite the verity that they may be strangers, especially when whatever type of aid we may render can in no approach have a more significant consequence on our own life.
In today’s society, we are blessed with various forms of philanthropy and different ways to achieve this philanthropic culture. When many people think of the term philanthropy, they immediately think of donating money to charities and other non-profit organizations. That is not necessarily the case because an individual can do philanthropy in a variety of different ways. For instance, they can do anything from taking part in or making an organization for the less fortunate. They can even participate in any form of community service that helps ‘people in that community’. Since philanthropy is all about “civic engagement, essentially social reform and community building.” Therefore, philanthropists need to connect with people and go beyond