Category: Charities

Recycling and Reusing Old Books

Sometimes you start going through your bookshelves and realize you have a fair amount of old books you do not want anymore. However, being the booklover you are, you just cannot imagine how you can dispose of them. How about donating them, or even sending them in for recycling?
Trade or Donate Books

You will find many websites online that will let you trade your old books for books you really want. Some of these websites are Paper Back Swap and ReadItSwapIt – which will let you trade specified titles with each other. Bookmooch is another similar website which gives you points for your books. Here, you can list the books you no longer need, and other users will request them, and every time you honour a request, you gain a point.

If the pile of books is large, you might also consider donating it to the local library or charity. You might even be able to obtain a tax receipt when donating your books, so that it can be claimed when processing your taxes. Once place that will give you a tax receipt is, the Used Book Superstore.
Organizations like Operation Paperback and Got Books? collect books and send them across to soldiers stationed at various places around the world. Books Beyond Borders on the other hand sends books and related educational resources to developing countries.

Recycling Your Books

Sometimes you might come across old books which are beyond repair, and cannot be read and will ultimately have no use for them. However, it can be heartbreaking to have to just throw it in the trash. Instead, give to your local recycling plant. This way, you know your old book is making a contribution towards the printing of a brand new book.

Donate auto to children’s charities

A lot of people talk about giving back to the community but are unable to do so because of the additional household expenses that overtake the overall household income that is earned from time to time. However, if you want to do something despite your constraints, you can donate auto that is unwanted with no expense from your side.

There are charities that provide a service to pick up your car donation Los Angeles, and will ensure that the financial proceeds from the vehicle go towards children in need from around the world in regards to their food, clothing and shelter as well as medication and education as well.

Children have a right to a bright and beautiful future, and these charities can collect a car donation MA with the nationwide towing facility that most of them have at their disposal. So, in making a donation, you will be glad to know that you are contributing to the future of a child that has no hope unlike most of us who are fortunate enough to get what we want.

As a thank you for your donation, you can claim a tax deduction on your yearly tax return, which should no doubt make it a win-win situation for all. After all, even kindness with no expectations deserves reward.
You can find several of these charities online, leaving you to decide how to go about doing what you can to make the life of a child’s future that much brighter.

Your Name and charity

Contributing to charity is a very noble thing to do. However, you should always find out exactly where your money goes. After all, if the hundred dollars you contributed to feed a starving child in Africa goes instead to some guy’s iPhone buying fund, you are being fleeced.

Sometimes charities will approach to obtain your services as a volunteer or ask you to serve on the board or sometimes even ask if they can use your name or your business’s name in their promotions. This is where you have to be extra careful, because this involves your reputation. Losing $100 is nothing compared to losing your reputation.

First of all, you have to find information about the organization and find out exactly where the money is going. Review past projects if you can and if possible, contact the recipients of those projects to ascertain if everything was done as it was supposed to be. Once you’re satisfied with what you’ve found, you should check with the other members of the board. Experienced scammers are prepared to lie in wait for a long time before they collect on their investment. You should also consider the charities future plans and how it ties in with you or your business.

Protecting your interests should be your first priority. Honorable intentions are good, but if the charity you are involved in gets into trouble, those intentions will do nothing to save you. It is a sad fact that unscrupulous characters use charities to further their needs. So for further safety, contact your local law enforcement authorities as well as your lawyer before you engage in any activity.

Osho: Get Rid of Negative Emotions

Jealousy is the feeling most of the people experience at least once in their
lifetimes. For some others jealousy is a real disaster that makes them do strange
and illogical deeds and ruins their lives.

Osho (Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, 1931-1990) – a famous Indian philosopher and spiritual teacher – said that jealousy is very common among almost all modern people, because
the main reason of jealousy as a phenomenon is hidden in the educational system
and in the way of thinking of every modern person.




Usually a child at school wants to study well not to become a well-educated
person, but to be better than all the other pupils. A person compares himself
with other people, and this is where any kind of jealousy comes from.

Osho said that living in comparison with others is the first key to an
unhappy and unsuccessful life. Jealousy and all the other negative emotions
poison our minds and make us worried and stressed.

Osho taught that if you want to be happy and free, you need to change your
attitude to life and get rid of the false values and spiritual impoverishment
of modern society. You should only listen to and obey your inner voice,
nothing more. “I didn’t come to teach you, I came to awaken you,”
he said.

Osho didn’t write any books. He offered his teachings in the form of discourses, and Osho discourses were recorded by his followers
in 1969-1989 and were published as books and Osho audio CDs and DVDs.

Osho has also developed a new meditation system that helps to “awaken”
and to understand what life is and what being a human means. Osho meditations
are not static as almost all known meditation practices: they include music,
movements and breathing techniques. Osho has offered hundreds of meditation techniques
(among the most famous ones we can name Osho Dynamic Meditation, Osho Kundalini
Meditation and Osho Nadabrahma Meditation) and he was sure that everyone can
find the most convenient method for himself.

Osho’s teachings found many followers all over the world, because people understood
that this man knew the secret of being happy. People read tantra books and practice
meditations offered by Osho to achieve harmony with their inner selves and to
live happier.

Be Careful with Your Donations

A request to purchase ad space in a publication to support a charitable cause is something you might receive, especially if you are in business. While making a contribution to a public safety group or a law enforcement agency is a very noble thing to do, you must view this with a business approach just like you would on any other deal. This is not to say that you should see this as a profit making venture of any sort, but that you should avoid getting fleeced or conned by a fraudulent party.

Just because a request contains the words “police”, “firefighter”, “orphans”, etc. it does not mean that they are all genuine outfits. Call the number that they provide and ask questions. In addition to this, you should also inquire from other related parties. For example, if the charity in question claims to support disabled police officers, then you should check with the local police authorities as to whether the charity is indeed genuine. If the charity in question offers you “special” benefits in return for your donation, like being let off the hook for speeding or running a red light, then something is not right.

More and more states are requiring that charities be registered or licensed under them. This gives you an even better chance of checking a charity’s legitimacy. All you have to do is check with the Attorney General’s office or the Secretary of State and they will be able to answer any question you have about a charity. One more thing to keep in mind is that some donations are not considered tax deductible as the recipient organization may be tax exempt.