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  1. #charitable : disposed to look on the best side, and to avoid harsh judgment

    - French: bénéfique

    - German: wohltätig

    - Italian: caritatevole

    - Portuguese: caridoso(a)

    - Spanish: benéfico

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    Word of The Hour's Annual Survey @ wordofthehour.org/r/form

  2. #charitable : disposed to look on the best side, and to avoid harsh judgment

    - French: bénéfique

    - German: wohltätig

    - Italian: caritatevole

    - Portuguese: caridoso(a)

    - Spanish: benéfico

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    Word of The Hour's Annual Survey @ wordofthehour.org/r/form

  3. This #charitable "roof replacement" for a poor retiree is heartwarming. Acts like this is one of the few things I like about YouTube monetization.

    Watch this video & help these guys out.

    ▶️ He Refused to Open the Door… So We Did Something CRAZY
    youtube.com/watch?v=Kq7Kff0i9K
    #gooddeeds #roofing

  4. #OpenAI is different. unlike #RobberBarons of yore, they didn’t #enslave masses, to pick cotton, extract oil or steel. They mined something more diffuse — every thought ever written, every photo ever shared, every line of code ever posted — and turned it into private property.

    As #Altman run OpenAI establishes its supposed #charitable arm, the question is does the money these "philanthropists" offer outweigh the permissions we give the system to keep taking?

    linkedin.com/pulse/openai-just #ArtificialIntelligence #IntellectualProperty

  5. CVE Alert: CVE-2025-11893 - smub - Charitable – Donation Plugin for WordPress – Fundraising with Recurring Donations & More - redpacketsecurity.com/cve-aler

    #OSINT #ThreatIntel #CyberSecurity #cve-2025-11893 #smub #charitable-donation-plugin-for-wordpress-fundraising-with-recurring-donations-and-more

  6. #Trump did NOT present evidence of wrongdoing. "If they are funding these things, they're going to have some problems. Because they're agitators & they're anarchists," he claimed.

    A spox for Soros' network of #charitable foundations pushed back against Trump's assertions.

    "Neither George Soros nor the Open Society Foundations fund protests, condone violence, or foment it in any way. Claims to the contrary are false," the spox said.

    #law #WeaponizationOfGovernment #fascism #tyranny #propaganda

  7. When pressed by a Reuters reporter in the Oval Office on Sept 25 about potential targets of a domestic terrorism probe, #Trump mentioned #GeorgeSoros - a #Democratic donor whose #charitable network supports #CivilRights, #education, #democracy & other causes - & #ReidHoffman, co-founder of the online professional networking platform #LinkedIn & another Democratic #donor.

    #law #FirstAmendment #WeaponizationOfGovernment #AbuseOfPower #propaganda #tyranny #fascism

  8. #charitable : disposed to look on the best side, and to avoid harsh judgment

    - French: bénéfique

    - German: wohltätig

    - Italian: caritatevole

    - Portuguese: caridoso(a)

    - Spanish: benéfico

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  9. New study: "unexpected preference for anonymity" in #charitable #giving intentions.
    doi.org/10.1098/rsos.250290

    In our literature review from 2011 in Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, doi.org/10.1177/08997640103809 Pamala Wiepking and I summarized the evidence as supporting a positive effect of #visibility of donors on #donations. More recent studies, however, have found mixed evidence, including no or even negative effects of donor visibility on donations.

  10. Johann Albrecht Bengel was a #Lutheran pastor who published a Greek New Testament. Here he comments on the Second Greatest Commandment (Matt 22:39). He speaks of a three way relationship between the reader, God, and himself. The mutual love of God to neighbor reinforces and sets an example for love between neighbors. It eliminates selfishness.

    Try reading this aloud quickly.

    How can you view a neighbor as truly loved?

    #christian #prolife #boldfaith #charitable #voiceofgod

  11. #charitable : disposed to look on the best side, and to avoid harsh judgment

    - French: bénéfique

    - German: wohltätig

    - Italian: caritatevole

    - Portuguese: caridoso(a)

    - Spanish: benéfico

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  12. People across the world celebrated #Hurricane years after he stopped the intruder.

    In Oct 2019, the People’s Dispensary for Sick Animals, a British #veterinary #charity, gave Hurricane its Order of Merit. The honor is the animal equivalent of the Order of the British Empire, which the royal family has awarded for #charitable & #PublicService works for over a century. In Mar 2022, Hurricane was given a Distinguished Service Medal from the award body Animals in War & Peace.

    #DogsOfMastodon #dogs

  13. It’s giving Tuesday, so any purchases today increase my giving percentage by 10%.

    BONUS: If an item already gives 100% I’ll send you my favorite mug, too!

    Shop site in bio. 🙌☕️

    #artwork #ad #art #handmade #artist #charitable #design #skateboard #skate

  14. My #artwork gives back at a fairly large percentage, supports meaningful causes, plants trees, and looks pretty nice on your wall.

    #ad #art #handmade #artist #charitable #design #skateboard #skate

    creamco.studio

  15. I dedicate my oncoming migraine to the US tax system.

    #founderlife #charitable #instructionsunclear

    Anyone else noticing that you need to be wealthy enough to afford an accountant to actually use tax break programs / file things correctly?

  16. William Linn, first chaplain to the US House, offers guidance to youth. They should habituate themselves to melt at scenes of distress. It will make them amiable and lovely.

    I read a book pushed by a contemporary Puritan ‘scholar’, addressed to youth of today. Fight trans people, it recommended, of course, but nothing about neighbors, the poor, charity.

    How can you confirm compassion in your heart, and unite it with other virtues?

    #christian #brightfuture #biblicalverses #rent #charitable

  17. If you're a #Canadian and not happy about #charitable tax breaks being given out to charities supporting #Israel causes, in some cases ones that are directly supporting their #genocide in #gaza, you should support @nikiashton sponsored e-petition E-4922, which calls upon the Canadian Revenue Agency to be more discerning about handing out charitable status and to investigate some of these organizations that seem to be in clear violation of CRA rules.
    ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Pet #cdnpoli

  18. #ElonMusk quietly takes down post calling #MacKenzieScott a threat to civilization for giving billions away to #socialjustice causes
    #Musk rarely backs down, but this time even he appears to have felt he crossed the line by condemning her #charitable #donations.
    “‘Super #rich ex-wives who hate their former spouse’ should … be listed among ‘Reasons That #WesternCivilization Died,’” Musk wrote, in response to report that Scott had donated to charity $16.5B of her fortune fortune.com/2024/03/07/elon-mu

  19. Keep #Charitable Oversight in the #IRS
    Columbia Journal of #TaxLaw, Vol. 15, forthcoming, 2024
    U. of Pittsburgh Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2024-05
    76 Pages Posted: 26 Feb 2024
    Philip Hackney
    #University of Pittsburgh - School of Law
    Date Written: February 26, 2024
    Abstract

    papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf

    Critics are increasingly calling for #Congress to remove charity regulation from the IRS. The critics are wrong. Congress should maintain charity #regulation in the IRS.

  20. Laws Governing Restrictions on #Charitable #Gifts: The Consequences of Codification
    70 UCLA L. Rev. Disc. 2 (2023)
    33 Pages Posted: 11 Oct 2023
    Nancy A. McLaughlin
    University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law
    Date Written: September 15, 2023

    papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf

  21. The #CitizensUnited decision — which extended #FreeSpeechRights to #corporations, #nonprofits & #unions — effectively curbed efforts to rein in #political spending, while paving the way for follow-up rulings from courts & the #FEC that would unleash additional billions of dollars in donations. Those donors would spawn a boom in #TaxExempt#charitable” & “#SocialWelfare” groups as vehicles for spending on political activity.

  22. How Does Leonard Leo Hide All His Right-Wing Dark Money? Here's One Way

    Newly released tax filings by #Schwab #Charitable—one of the nation's largest sponsors of what are called #donor-#advised #funds—offers another major piece of information on how this "#dark #money" moves.

    Conservative legal activist #Leonard #Leo has gotten a lot of attention for his work to reshape the U.S. judicial system.

    Ever since the summer, when he landed the biggest political advocacy donation in U.S. history, Leo has featured in story after story on the ways in which secretive funding from ultra-wealthy donors has shaped the courts and public policy. ­

    With newly released tax filings from Schwab Charitable — one of the nation’s largest sponsors of what are called #donor-#advised #funds — we have another major piece of information on how this “#dark #money” moves.

    During its most recently reported fiscal year (July 2021 to June 2022), Schwab made an enormous grant of $141.5 million to the #85 #Fund, a key part of Leo’s burgeoning empire, formerly known as the #Judicial #Education #Project. The 85 Fund is a 501(c)(3) public charity.

    Unlike private foundations, donor-advised funds (#DAFs) are not independent organizations that need to report their activities to the IRS and make those reports available to the public.

    Instead, they’re accounts set up under a “sponsor” — in this case Schwab Charitable — a public charity that can house hundreds or even thousands of funds.

    And while those sponsors need to file annual reports with the IRS, they do not have to report which of those DAFs make which grants.

    That makes them ideal vehicles to #conceal who the actual #donors are behind sources of funding: if a private foundation made a similar grant it would show up on that foundation’s IRS filings attributed to the foundation, whose directors, officers, and finances are far more transparent.

    inequality.org/great-divide/da

    (see ProPublica’s “How a Secretive Billionaire Handed His Fortune to the Architect of the Right-Wing Takeover of the Courts”)