Tag: Charities
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Batik teddy bears raise money for clean water in Mali
These irresistible little batik bears will help Malian villagers build a well.
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Alabama man feeds the homeless by teaching them to grow their own food
Even in the dark pit of poverty, where rays of hope shine their dimmest, there's often still light enough for a new life to take hold.
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How the Rural Poor Are Becoming a Market for Solar Power
A new generation of succesful for-profit, mission-driven businesses are serving energy-hungry communities across the globe.
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Africans Donate Heaters to Fight Cold in Norway
A viral video campaign is taking aim at one-dimensional media reporting and charity messaging, with a fictional charity sending aid to the North.
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Small Charity Beats Oil Giant, Becomes Largest Seller of Solar Lights in Africa
They make unlikely competitors, but a small UK-based charity just overtook a French oil giant as the largest seller of portable solar lights in Africa. We should be grateful that both are on the case.
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10 Offbeat Charity Gifts that Do the World Good
Why not wrap up dung for crops, a tree for a butterfly, the wellbeing of an octopus, or a camel for milk this year?
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Holiday Gifts with Good Design That are Good for the World
Here is a bunch of gifts with good design and made by groups doing a social good.
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From Necklaces to Nail Polish: 5 Ways Shopping Supports Hurricane Sandy Relief
Take altruitsic advantage of these companies' good will to donate to disaster relief and start your holiday shopping.
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App Urges You to Spend Less on Stuff, Donate More
Instead is an app that encourages people to make cost saving decisions and then gives them quick and easy ways to donate the difference.
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Return to Freedom: Inside a Wild Horse Sanctuary
TreeHugger visited a wild horse sanctuary in California. Check out the mustangs we met, and the mission behind this nonprofit.
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Can a Bike-Powered Blender Really Change the World?
Bike-powered devices often feel like hippy gimmicks. Yet for some communities, they offer an important glimpse of more resilient technology.
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A Tent City in Texas Gets the Power of Solar Light
Solar lighting has long been heralded as a game changer for development projects abroad. Now one charity is deploying it in the tent cities of the USA.
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How Solar Light Saves Lives
Brave Mhonie, the Malawian field coordinator for Solar Aid, knows first hand the dangers of inadequate and unsafe lighting. Here he explains why solar is a life saver.
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The Buy-One-Give-One Business Model Must Get Smarter
The TOMS Shoes model of business is attracting criticism as well as praise. The trick is not to abandon it, but to evolve it.
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nPower PEG Crowdsources Energy For Developing Nations
After hiting the commercial market this summer, nPower PEG's developers have teamed up with CrisisMappers to help bring much-needed off-grid energy to people in developing countries.
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App Earns Money for Charities for Every Mile You Walk, Run, or Bike
With a smartphone and some ambulation, you can support any of nine great non-profits.
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Elon Musk Joins Buffett, Pledges Fortune to Charity
Warren Buffett has been working on promoting the Giving Pledge for a while now, trying to convince other billionaires to do what he and Bill Gates did by pledging most of their fortunes to charity.
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Solar Aid Cyclist Attempts Fastest Round-the-World Trip, Gets Hit By Truck
A brave cyclist attempting to circumnavigate the globe for charity is hit by a truck in Arkansas. But that's not likely to stop him.
