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July 05, 2008

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Case Studies Stepping Up Hands On

Film Festival Director John Biaggi

Cristina Maldonado

Globalization is giving prevalence to human rights issues as never before, says John Biaggi, the director of the Human Rights Watch International Film festival, currently under way in New York City. CONTRIBUTE ONLINE spoke to Biaggi about the festival's 19-year history and its efforts to raise the visibility of social problems around the world.

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Name-Dropping

Michael Gross

From concert stages to public toilets, charities get inventive as donor-demand snaps up prime naming opportunities.

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Urban Farms

Marcia Stepanek and Tracie ...

Amid national food shortages, the organic-food movement finds a new mission: fighting hunger with urban farms that produce healthier food for less.
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The Race Gap

Cristina Maldonado

A recent study on racial diversity of private foundations shows sluggish growth since the mid-1990s but some leaders in the field are hoping to change that. Read article >

Cause Investing

Contribute Magazine

Want a new way to make a difference? Invest your money where your values are—and join one of hundreds of new shareholder communities online using the power of their shared values to push companies into changing their ways on the environment, product safety, and other causes.

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Who Are the Super-Rich?
CNBC I June 24, 3008
A special report by CNBC explores the people at the top of America's wealth pyramid—and how they got there.

Americans Slow Pace of Giving
The New York Times I June 23, 2008

U.S. charitable giving rose only slightly last year, to $307 billion; Giving USA says 2008 might see a decline

Drive-By Charity
The New York Times I June 18, 2008
In India, "hunger cafes" serve 25-cent meals to the hungry, paid for by motorists using drive-through facilities.

Red Cross Fund Runs Dry
MSNBC/NBC | June 17. 2008
With its disaster relief fund running dry, the embattled nonprofit faces yet another headache

A Manhattan judge recently cut—from $12 million to $2 million—the sum left by the late real estate magnate Leona Helmsley to her dog, Trouble. This will mean more for charity and for two of Helmsley's grandchildren. Was it right for the judge to step in?

Yes

Under no circumstances should heirs have four legs instead of two

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