Download Peter Buffett's new album for free at amiestreet.com. When you do, they'll make a $1 donation, which will be tripled by Robin Hood, allowing the Food Bank to provide 15 meals.

Reposted (with edits and additions) from philanthropy2173 Ah, December. The anticipation of snow, unless you're already several feet under. The warmt...

I'm still looking for an opportunity to feed the homeless on Christmas day but so far, no dice. I fear it may be from the growing ranks of the unemployed looking for something, anything, to do.

As money mistress Suze Orman says, you can't teach abundance if you're broke. And you can't teach merriment if you're feeling drecky. Owning your bitches is the first step to disowning them.

We've all learned about the courageous acts of former slaves in American history like Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman--but while the Emancipatio...

Our antidote to traffic snarls and short-tempered shoppers? We put our money where our values are by making donations in friends' or family members' names to worthy organizations.

As everyone seems to be watching pennies this holiday season it follows that we might see a swing away from giving "stuff" to giving something more meaningful.

Teaching gratitude is a big priority in my book and I do believe it's got to be an ongoing effort. Here are four fun and easy ways to keep the giving going beyond the upcoming holidays.

Even though there is a limited amount of money in the world, there is more than enough to exchange what is truly valuable. There is a blessing in learning how to more effectively use a commodity like money when it is in limited supply.

Faced with an economic crisis, a housing crisis, a healthcare crisis, a global warming crisis, and a "war on terror" that appears to have no end in si...

I don't think a short-term drop in giving is all we're facing here. Many factors will fundamentally restructure the business of giving as we've come to know it.

In light of everything that is going on in our country and the world right now, including the financial crisis and political discord that are now on c...

The world is full of good deeds and the opportunity to do good deeds. When we don't do them, it's often out of fear. Fear of losing something: our s...

Have you ever wondered if there was more to "life" than what you were experiencing? Have you ever felt like "bad" things just happened to you; that i...

Give 'til it hurts. Groan. Are you tired of being guilted into giving? Better load up on overpriced wrapping paper and spend Saturday working th...

A volunteer, by definition, positively serves and improves our community. A little birdie told me that some volunteers prefer to laze around and play ...

It is easy to point the finger at the Burmese government but what about the corporations that turn a blind eye to massive human rights violations carried out by the military in the course of the joint projects?

Teaching one's children early on about giving intelligently is at least as important as what one learns at school. Social Entrepreneurship programs around the world have helped create a snow-ball effect.

We have far more power to make a difference than we believe we do. Small positive actions have huge impact, often in ways that aren't even visible to us when we take these actions.