Category: Charities

The news is out that Prince Harry and British pop singer, Natasha Bedingfield have been secretly putting together plans for a concert to raise money to benefit the African charities that they are both involved with. It has been said that the two have been secretly working on the project for several months. Although all the details aren’t known at this time, it has been reported that the flagship concert will kick off in 2010 and will be televised around the world. The concert will also be in the style of Live-Aid.

This however will not be the first time that Prince Harry and Natasha Bedingfield have teamed together for a concert. The two joined forces two years ago when Bedingfield sang at Princess Diana’s memorial concert that commemorated the 10th anniversary of her death. Princess Diana was of course the mother of Prince Harry.

The charities that will benefit from the 2010 Live-Aid styled concert are Prince Harry’s “Sentebale” charity, which supports orphans in Lesotho, a tiny nation surrounded by South Africa and “Global Angels”, which is an international children’s charity ran by Natasha’s mother, Molly Bedingfield, and of which Natasha is an ambassador. Molly Bedingfield, Prince Harry and his team have had several meetings about the televised concert and they are also hoping to sell thounsands of tickets to music fans. Concerts for charity have always done well and judging by the histroy of Live-Aid type concerts, this 2010 concert stands to do very well and raise a lot of money.

While the Cash for Clunkers program has been receiving a great deal of positive press in recent weeks due to the huge jump in car sales that the incentive program inspired, few have considered how this program has negatively impacted many of the nation’s nonprofit charities. For the past decade, nonprofit organizations have been relying on the donation of used cars that were on their last legs to various agencies as a means of generating much needed fundraising revenue. These agencies ranged from local public media programs such as the Public Broadcasting Service and National Public Radio to community organizations such as Goodwill and religious charities.

Previous to Cash for Clunkers, citizens were often more than happy to donate their used vehicles to these nonprofit agencies in exchange for a break on their federal income taxes. However, the financial incentives offered by Cash for Clunkers for outweigh the incentives offered by the tax write-off, so many consumers are opting to upgrade their existing used vehicle for a more fuel efficient vehicle for the Clunkers money instead of donating the vehicle to charity. While the Cash for Clunkers is definitely having an effect on the charities that were relying on these donations, it’s also worth remembering that our economy has reached the point that only an economic recovery will allow most citizens to resume actively making substantial donations to charity. Cash for Clunkers may have hurt these charities in the short term, but most of us hope that it is measures such as Clunkers that will provide the shot in the arm that our economy so desperately needs.

Some of the best known charitable organizations such as Planned Parenthood and other groups like the United Way are likely to get a shot in the arm through the funding of appropriations process in both the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate. Planned Parenthood offers reproductive health services to many poor women both in the United States and around the world. The United Way on the other hand has been a key leader in building wheelchair ramps, new homes for the downtrodden and even returning veterans who are injured in a combat. The United Way has had a key relationship with professional groups such as the National Football League to remind kids of the importance of volunteering within their communities.

If you look at organizations like Charity Navigator they contend that funding generally has decreased over the last few years to help non-profit organizations. There may be evidence that there was a cut in the rate of increase to non-profit groups, but no actual cut in the rate of funding.

The faith based community has been key over the last decade in providing charitable services. President Obama has proposed an expansion of former President Bush’s faith based community outreach programs. Obama plans to increase the funding for the program by ten billion dollars. This news please people like Reverend Jim Wallis who is deeply involved in a lot of non-profit activity through his group Sojourners. Groups like the Children’s Defense Fund under Marian Wright Edelman are also likely to see an increase in federal dollars coming to their coffers. The Children’s Defense Fund will be key in showing the ropes to some of these faiths based organizations on how to better teach our children.

Have you been looking for a rewarding career? According to a survey conducted recently, job satisfaction is the highest in the charity sector. Many people deal with the daily grind of working for someone else and making him or her become richer and richer, as a change it appears that working for a non profit organization is more rewarding.

In today’s economy many people rely on charitable organizations to help them survive. It is important that charities have enough volunteers and employees so that they can function properly. When you work for a charity you can give back to other people, even if you do get paid for it. Doing charitable work gives back to others who are in desperate need of resources and assistance. Many people avoid working for charities because they think that they will not be paid as much as they would at large companies, when as it turns out charities often pay more than regular companies thanks in large part to tax free status and other concessions.

The charity sector has employment opportunities for people of various professional backgrounds, from accountant to it professionals. Charities are similar to companies in that they have a similair structure with the only real difference being that thye operate as a non profit and rely entirely on donations or contributions to survive.

If you are looking for a rewarding and satisfying career choice then consider finding a job in the charity sector. You can earn a good living and make a diffference at the same time.

It can be a difficult feat to determine with clarity the reputable British charities vs. the not-so reputable ones. Amidst a sea of frauds and impostors, many people have given up on the idea of altruism in the form of monetary compensation, and have turned their plummeting hopes down alternate avenues: mentoring, being a big-brother or big-sister, becoming a chaperone, as well as additional sources of charity have recently become an alternative.

Television adverts, especially those that hyperbolize suffering children and bodies with loads of tubes entering and exiting, are vying for the attention from the British public and siphoning currency out of many unsuspecting wallets, simply by preying on one’s frugality and subsequent shame of not giving enough; even with that being said, recent British news declares its famous charities to be doing better than average, especially registered charities that are rapidly taking in billions. The popular idea that sly, bedeviling, non-ethical charities are roping in the heaviest funds, is a farce, rather those practical, moral, and law abiding British charities stand to gain the most by adhering to their upright foundation and investing thoughtfully; indeed, the morally resonant practices are gaining the most.

Recent British media states that roughly sixty percent of charities legitimately have ethical policies in place, thereby protecting their reputations in order to gain more trusting donors and attain larger returns, even while disassociating from the more popular means of investments that promise the largest sums: those are typically pornography, tobacco, alcohol, and gambling entities.