I think you're wrong. No doubt people like Warren Buffet and Bill and Melinda Gates and other ultra rich people who have founded family "charitable" foundations give primarily to high-profile subjects which enhance their fame, tickle their egos, and give them a fat tax deduction.
How about Habitat for Humanity, and other volunteer groups rebuilding homes in the Gulf Coast after Katrina, and in your own home town?
How about the Red Cross, Volunteers of America, Salvation Army, Good Will, United Farm Workers, NAACP, Catholic Charities, ACLU, Legal Aid, American Foundation for the Blind, Doctors Without Borders, Engineers Without Borders, Doors, Meals on Wheels, Lutheran Relief, Alcoholics Anonymous, and at least 5,000 others.
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Not to mention the people who volunteer to reshelve books in the libraries, teach illiterates to read, staff suicide hot-lines, soup kitchens, homeless shelters, food banks, hospitals, drive sick people to hospitals, and I could go on but why?
It seems to me that you haven't really gotten into volunteering yet, or you'd know better.
Try it, give something back, it will make you feel better about yourself, and your fellow man. |
