Charity

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I Like to Watch
"Oprah's Big Give" makes charity look as easy as speed dialing Jennifer Aniston, while "30 Rock's" Tina Fey breaks the angst of the single female out of a frothy Aniston-flavored rut.
Reese Witherspoon empowers women ... with a rubber bracelet?
Introducing the "women's empowerment bracelet," yet another in a long line of issue-awareness jewelry.
The Clinton Foundation's donors
Read Salon's compilation of certain donations to the William J. Clinton Foundation, and a list of those who have paid speaking fees to the former president, here.
My mother tithes 10 percent -- but she can't make her house payments
We're happy to help with her second mortgage -- but not if the money goes to her church.
Who gives more to charity: Rich men or rich women?
A study of America's wealthiest donors has some interesting findings about gender differences in charitable giving.
King Kaufman's Sports Daily
If Peyton Manning and five other QBs do the impossible, a shoe company will generously donate $1 million to charity. No, really: Impossible. I'm matching the offer.
The Forever Elsewhere Management Agency
In Gulfport, Miss., 13 days after Katrina roared through, we couldn't find one resident who had ever seen a FEMA official.
Connected giving
Americans who want to give more than cash to help Katrina victims are using the Internet to send diapers, baseball gloves and CDs directly to the disaster area.
Golfing with Tom DeLay
Playing through campaign finance laws, corporations are buying time with the House leader by donating to his foundations for abused kids. Meanwhile, the charities are spending more on the golf fundraisers than on the children.
Vote your vagina!
Eve Ensler, the vulva-friendly playwright, hosts a fundraiser in New York in the hopes of getting young women to vote with their ... well, you know.
From each according to his junk, to each according to her need
Need a pile of dirt? Got a pile of dirt? It's Christmas every day in the new world of freecycling.
Earth to Bill Gates: Thank you
Yes, Microsoft is a bullying monopoly. But the software king may go down in history as the single individual who did the most to help the world's neediest people.
The Salon Interview: Arianna Huffington
In "Pigs at the Trough," the former Republican skewers corporate evildoers. But don't call her a Democrat.
Brother, can you spare a dime for my Gucci bills?
Cyber-begging fuels the new philanthropy, in which brand, beauty and instant karma matter most in raising funds.
Pity the nutty professor
As a gimp, I watched the Muscular Dystrophy Telethon with disdain -- until Jerry's real kid said she felt "sad" for her daddy.
Wrath of a terror widow
Yes, we are angry, often justifiably, but we are not ungrateful opportunists making a buck on the death of loved ones. That person is cartoonist Ted Rall.
It's not about church and state
Two words for the Bible-thumpers and lefties who are trashing Bush's faith-based initiative: Alcoholics Anonymous.
Holy nudity
A priest gets in trouble for posing naked in support of charity.
We will, we will save you!
Matchmakers hook up Hollywood luminaries with the cause of their choice -- saving the world one star at a time.
Thoroughly modern Medicis
Will new-economy millionaires bankroll needy artists? Several Web companies are promoting the idea.
The colorful dissenter of Benetton
Oliviero Toscani of Colors and Talk magazines talks about media hypocrisy, corporate responsibility and why fashion makes us stupid.
Cruisin' is confusin'
A British bereavement group called Cruse will change its name.
Click on charity
Toys for Tots calls the Net a godsend for nonprofits accustomed to expensive direct-mail fund-raising.
21st Log: Brief reports and tidbits from the info-sphere.
HotWired advertiser sponsors a blackout. Scientologists lose a round in copyright fight. A costly tour of the Gates mansion.
21st Log: Brief reports and tidbits from the info-sphere.
An instant sequel to Microsoft's "Halloween" memo on Linux.
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