Category Archives: Giving and Philanthropy
It’s the best Rube Goldberg contraption I’ve ever seen. I wish I could embed it but I can’t so click on the link. Good things come to those who wait. Especially if they love their Guinness. via Scribal Terror
Instead, they aim to provide comfort and compassion while helping fragile and elderly patients navigate the increasingly complex medical system by accompanying them to the doctor’s office, the hospital, and the nursing home…. — Fine, 75, of Cambridge, envisions a cadre of retired doctors, nurses, physician’s assistants, and trained lay people who would provide one-on-one support to thousands of patients, seeking to humanize healthcare while reducing medical errors, complications, and hospitalizations.
A wonderful new program called Canines for Combat Veterans has been started in Massachusetts using selected prison inmates to train dogs to become assistants to wounded veterans. Trained to serve others An inmate, a soldier and a dog share a bond.
The book’s basic findings are that conservatives who practice religion, live in traditional nuclear families and reject the notion that the government should engage in income redistribution are the most generous Americans, by any measure…. They want everyone’s tax dollars to support charitable causes and are reluctant to write checks to those causes, even when governments don’t provide them with enough money.
