Charity

You can spare a dime to save a kid You can spare a dime to save a kid

Instead of buying yachts and gilded trash cans, Wall Street's bailout kings could have spent some of their excess cash alleviating poverty. But what about you and me?
By Frances Kissling May 4, 2009

  • An economic incentive to vote

    A case study in trying too hard: Three economists argue that voting is an act of charity
    By Andrew Leonard October 31, 2008

  • Reese Witherspoon empowers women ... with a rubber bracelet?

    Introducing the "women's empowerment bracelet," yet another in a long line of issue-awareness jewelry.
    By Andrea Grimes March 5, 2008

  • 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.
    October 11, 2007

  • 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.
    By Cary Tennis December 8, 2006

  • 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.
    By Page Rockwell December 20, 2005

  • 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.
    September 15, 2005

  • 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.
    By Karen A. Lash September 14, 2005

  • 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.
    By Lynn Harris September 10, 2005

  • 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.
    By Mark Benjamin May 2, 2005

  • 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.
    By Rebecca Traister June 10, 2004

  • 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.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski November 25, 2003

  • 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.
    By Andrew Leonard May 9, 2003

  • The Salon Interview: Arianna Huffington

    In "Pigs at the Trough," the former Republican skewers corporate evildoers. But don't call her a Democrat.
    By Joan Walsh February 11, 2003

  • 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.
    By Janelle Brown October 2, 2002

  • 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.
    By Gary Presley September 4, 2002

  • 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.
    By A.R. Torres March 15, 2002

  • 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.
    By Arianna Huffington March 13, 2001

  • Holy nudity

    A priest gets in trouble for posing naked in support of charity.
    By Jack Boulware January 17, 2001

  • 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.
    By Carina Chocano October 9, 2000

  • Thoroughly modern Medicis

    Will new-economy millionaires bankroll needy artists? Several Web companies are promoting the idea.
    By Janelle Brown June 27, 2000
Page 1 of 2  oldest ⇒
Salon Directory › c › Charity (32 stories)

From Salon's blogs