Showing posts with label charity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label charity. Show all posts
Saturday, May 11, 2024

Jim Simons (1938-2024)

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  Jim Simons, the great investor and philanthropist of math and computer science, died yesterday. Here's the announcement from the Simo...
Sunday, August 13, 2017

Is it repugnant to give money to poor people?

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Chris Blattman's weekly report includes a  guest post by Jeff Mosenkis of  Innovations for Poverty Action   containing this interestin...
Friday, December 30, 2016

The American Kidney Fund, in the NY Times, and riposte from the AKF

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In a nuanced back and forth, the NY Times has suggested that the American Kidney Fund is abusing its status as a charity for patients who c...
Sunday, May 17, 2015

Public schools and private philanthropy

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Public school budgets are always stretched to their limits, and one of the ways those limits are sometimes surmounted is with an infusion o...
Monday, December 23, 2013

Peter Singer on charitable giving

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In the Washington Post: Heartwarming causes are nice, but let’s give to charity with our heads "You’d have to be a real spoilsport n...
Friday, October 18, 2013

Designing the philanthropic ask...

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A conference this weekend at Chicago, on Philanthropy, as some market design aspects: THE SCIENCE OF PHILANTHROPY INITIATIVE (SPI)  AND ...
Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Compensating kidney donors with charitable contributions--Choi, Gulati and Posner

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Organ shortages remain despite the increase in live donation that has accompanied kidney exchange. But it is illegal to pay donors, so ther...
Monday, January 28, 2013

The price of lunch for a good cause...we could do it by skype...on eBay today

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Here's the eBay auction that will determine who I have lunch with at some future date. I'll be checking on it this evening, to fin...
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Friday, January 18, 2013

Lunch (with me) for a good cause, to be auctioned on eBay

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The auction will start this weekend... The fundraiser auction for Jewish Family Services of Silicon Valley, for a lunch date with me (or...
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Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Terasaki Medical Innovation award

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Itai Ashlagi and I received the NKR Terasaki Medical Innovation award Monday evening at the American Transplant Congress meeting in Boston ,...
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Saturday, November 28, 2009

Internet resources for the homeless

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Being homeless does not necessarily mean being cut off from the internet. The Boston Globe reports Online sites offer a fertile venue for so...
Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Giving anonymously, through an intermediary

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I recently blogged about a service set up to enable people to give (relatively) small gifts anonymously, Giving anonymously, for a fee . La...
Sunday, March 29, 2009

Giving anonymously, for a fee

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How to give money to a friend anonymously (and be sure that it is received)? Try Giving Anonymously , established "to facilitate giving...
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