Charities

great local charity that focuses on helping with animals and people around the Cedar Rapids Iowa area. The charity began in December of the year 2000, and has been serving the community ever since then. The Cedar Rapids Animeals specializes in helping animals get food when needed and helping the owners who may not be able to go out and get food for their animal on their own. The Charity was started by a petco employee and meals on wheels employee. Together these two people founded a charity…

helping spread the love ("What We Do." Ronald McDonald House Charities. Ronald McDonald House Charities). The first Ronald McDonald House was created by Philadelphia Eagles football player Fred Hill ("History." Ronald McDonald House Charities Capital Region. McDonald's Corporation). The Ronald McDonald House allows families to stay close to their kids for little to no cost ("Frequently Asked Questions." Ronald McDonald House Charities. McDonald's Corporation). Ronald McDonald House provides a…

Women and children usually bear the burden of water collection, walking miles to the nearest source, which is unprotected and likely contaminated.”(Charity: water) The “Charity: water”, which is one of the most well-known nonprofit organizations, shows how difficult it is to get water in Africa. On the website, Scott Harrison who is a founder of Charity: water states that a lot of people were killed by unsafe water and poor sanitation systems. It is hard for people who live in a country with…

One should not inflate their own moral worth on account of their self-sacrifice in charity because it creates a ladder of moral hierarchy or as DasGupta incorporated it in her article it creates the “White Savior Industrial Complex” (DasGupta 3). The White Savior Industrial Complex speaks about the larger issue of elevating one’s own morality…

Although some people think athletes get paid way too much money Although some athletes are giving their money to charity some are spending it on junk many people think that most of the athletes should give a decent amount of money to the charity to do something out of the goodness of there hart instead of buying new cars if they did give to charity the kids would have more ways pay for their surgeries, medical bills, many kids don't have a way to pay for their medical bills,surgeries,so…

Charity is essential to solve the major problems in the world today. They care about the causes they support and work hard to resolve them. Not only do they work towards issues such as finding cures for diseases, they also provide support for the poor. Instead of our money going into unnecessary luxuries, we could be giving to these hard working charities and possibly save lives. In Peter Singer’s The Singer Solution to World Poverty he emphasizes the idea of using your money to save lives…

to show a different perspective on the charity work people, churches, and organizations do. In Chapter 1, he presents the characteristics of something that he calls “the scandal.” Lupton is conscious that American are generous and want to contribute to charitable causes. However, he sees that much of the money people donate is either wasted or becomes harmful to the people that is supposed to help. Two of the reasons for this harming effect are that charity sometimes makes people dependent on…

William MacAskill argues in his book “Doing Good Better”, that we ought to donate towards charities that are the most effective. However, he also asserts that it is not morally justifiable to give to a cause that is close to one’s heart, insofar the charity the agent chooses to support is due to a subjective reason. He proposes this, because the charity may not be as effective and efficient as another one we could support with the same resources. Problematically, if we were to listen to…

“Doing Good Better”, he argues that we ought to donate to charities that are the most effective in the pursuit to relieve people of suffering. He also asserts that it is not morally justifiable to give to a cause that is close to one’s heart. He proposes this, because the charity we choose to fund may not be as effective and efficient as a different one we could support with the same resources. In choosing not to support the more effective charity would be unfair, because we are favoring the…

Moral Comparability In Famine, Affluence, and Morality by Peter Singer, he argues that we are morally obligated to donate as much money to charity as we can to help limit poverty in the world. Singer explains that there are many people in the world suffering from poverty, and living very poor-quality lives as a result of poverty. He argues that poverty is morally wrong because of the suffering it promotes. Singer believes it is the moral obligation of humans to donate as much as they can…