Sentences with phrase «donated by the good people»

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So $ 15,000 per billboard is a waste of money to try to get people to stop fearing their own non-belief, but tens of millions donated by the LDS to stop loving couples from being able to share equal marriage rights was money well spent.

And, while the causes chosen by wealthy old people to advance may not exactly match societal needs, tax funds can fill the gaps that no one wealthy was interested in donating to at death, so it doesn't really matter all that much exactly what charitable legacies the rich leave, even though they and their heirs can feel good about the charitable legacies that they do leave.

A number of vendors and polling firms also offer what seem to be quite sophisticated microtargeting - based voter / donor outreach, but I've also heard experienced direct mail database people say that the by far the best predictor of a person's propensity to give money to a campaigh is his or her past history of donating — people who've donated before are more likely to donate again.

This year's dog walk at Thompson Park was well attended and people generously donated by purchasing registration bags, raffle tickets, tee shirts, and books.

Someone who does not care which animals they help could do more good by donating to help farmed animals, because fewer people have already donated to help them and so better opportunities to help are still available.

They try to solve this problem by encouraging or requiring people to spay or neuter their pets (to reduce the number of cats and dogs who need homes), 57 encouraging people to adopt animals from shelters rather than purchasing them from pet stores or breeders (to increase the number of people looking to provide homes to animals in shelters), 58 and donating money to shelters and foster programs that care for cats and dogs waiting to be adopted (so they can house animals for longer).59 Collectively, these solutions have greatly reduced the number of cats and dogs euthanized in shelters.60 The problem is well understood, although making further progress in solving it may be expensive in areas where all these solutions have already been implemented.

But millions of people make themselves feel better by donating to such groups instead of taking time to check out local rescue groups.

The world has some rough customers and often offers some depressing headlines in the news, and but when you start looking at all of the ways you could help vulnerable people or animals, simply by donating your points and miles or cash back, and start thinking about what effort and energy it took to start these worthy causes in the first place, you might be reminded that there's still far more good in this world than bad.

I hope you will consider donating money to a cause that gets almost no attention, people with myalgic encephalomyelitis, which is also known as chronic fatigue syndrome, a better known name but one rejected by those who suffer from it because it makes it sound like a psychosomatic illness.

The organization sells cellphone and long distance service plans (you can get free Ben & Jerry ice cream by using their long distance plan) and credit cards, which seems kinda bad, but the good part is that they do it to harness actions that most people would do anyway to donate money to nonprofits (including Greenpeace, Oxfam America, Rainforest Action Network and tons more) that are selected in a yearly vote by their customers.

«To put the resources to the best and most efficient use, the money collected by our dedicated Haiti fund will be donated specifically to help the people of Haiti via recognized tax - exempt charitable organizations that are providing needed emergency services and resources in Haiti.»