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The Long Goodbye: Meditations on Giving

Social Commentary post by JDTress on January 5, 2011 - 1:14pm; tagged charity, giving, Oprah, philanthropy.



Is giving nobler when done quietly? Oprah's last season and the mixed messages that tie giving with getting.

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Lilith Fair: No money for crisis pregnancy centers!

Music post by Kelsey Wallace on March 31, 2010 - 12:38pm; tagged anti-choice charities, charity, Facebook, lilith fair.
Seriously, Lilith Fair? Just when I was thinking of attending you because my country music crush Loretta Lynn is playing your festival this year, you have to go and encourage your fans to support anti-choice charities. Boooooo.
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The Transcontinental Disability Choir: A Reconsideration of Tiny Tim, Charity, and the Good Cripple

Social Commentary post by s.e. smith on December 25, 2009 - 7:39am; tagged charity, Christmas Carol, Dickens, disability, good cripple, Tiny Tim, Transcontinental Disability Choir.
A Christmas Carol, published in 1843, has become a Christmas classic. Chances are high that most of us have read it, read adaptations, seen it performed on stage, or seen it on film. In some households, people make A Christmas Carol a family tradition, and it's supposed to be a feel-good, inspiring moral tale which brings the family together for the holidays.
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