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	<description>Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made</description>
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		<title>By: lisa</title>
		<link>http://crookedtimber.org/2006/12/21/gift-guide-charitable-giving/comment-page-1/#comment-182646</link>
		<dc:creator>lisa</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Dec 2006 20:55:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If you want to give money to MSF or Save the Children, then it&#039;s best to give it directly, with no filter in between.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p>If you want to give money to <span class="caps">MSF</span> or Save the Children, then it&#8217;s best to give it directly, with no filter in between.</p>
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		<title>By: Jonah Burke (The Darfur Wall)</title>
		<link>http://crookedtimber.org/2006/12/21/gift-guide-charitable-giving/comment-page-1/#comment-182538</link>
		<dc:creator>Jonah Burke (The Darfur Wall)</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Dec 2006 18:52:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Eszter, thanks for posting about The Darfur Wall.

dsquared, you raise valid concerns.  We chose the beneficiaries of The Darfur Wall because we believe that advocacy and humanitarian aid are complementary approaches to the Darfur problem.  We must help the people of Darfur, but we must also pressure the people in power.

I should say, too, that your description of Eric Reeves&#039; Sudan Aid Fund is not accurate.  Much of the Sudan Aid Fund goes to humanitarian causes, including MSF and Save the Children.  You can find Eric Reeves and the fund in MSF&#039;s recent annual report.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p>Eszter, thanks for posting about The Darfur Wall.</p>

	<p>dsquared, you raise valid concerns.  We chose the beneficiaries of The Darfur Wall because we believe that advocacy and humanitarian aid are complementary approaches to the Darfur problem.  We must help the people of Darfur, but we must also pressure the people in power.</p>

	<p>I should say, too, that your description of Eric Reeves&#8217; Sudan Aid Fund is not accurate.  Much of the Sudan Aid Fund goes to humanitarian causes, including <span class="caps">MSF</span> and Save the Children.  You can find Eric Reeves and the fund in <span class="caps">MSF</span>&#8217;s recent annual report.</p>
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		<title>By: heart guy</title>
		<link>http://crookedtimber.org/2006/12/21/gift-guide-charitable-giving/comment-page-1/#comment-182504</link>
		<dc:creator>heart guy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Dec 2006 05:31:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Here&#039;s a shameless plug for a brand new charity setup to support heart research:
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.patrickscanlonfund.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt; Scanlon Cardiovascular Research Fund&lt;/a&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p>Here&#8217;s a shameless plug for a brand new charity setup to support heart research:<br />
<a href="http://www.patrickscanlonfund.org/" rel="nofollow"> Scanlon Cardiovascular Research Fund</a></p>
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		<title>By: novakant</title>
		<link>http://crookedtimber.org/2006/12/21/gift-guide-charitable-giving/comment-page-1/#comment-182488</link>
		<dc:creator>novakant</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Dec 2006 22:12:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>dsquared, to be honest, I&#039;m not really up to date on the Darfur situation in general and the different approaches to solving it in particular, but it seems that Reeves is pushing for political and military action, which seems to be needed badly, since there doesn&#039;t seem to be any improvement - I wonder why this is regarded as not quite kosher, but then, as I said, I don&#039;t know the details

generally, though, I have become quite disillusioned with the effect relief agencies have on conflicts like these; a lot of humanitarian catastrophes are the result of bad government and lack of international will to push the parties towards conflict resolution; it seems to me that putting pressure on the powers that be to reach a political solution is a much more efficient way to help the victims of such conflicts and that, while short-term relief is necessary, long-term efforts can actually be counterproductive, as they have the side-effect of stabilizing a horrible situation letting the conflict parties carry on doing what they do and the international community get away with ignoring it

the above is just a somewhat informed intuition, I&#039;m curious what others with maybe more information or even experience have to say</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p>dsquared, to be honest, I&#8217;m not really up to date on the Darfur situation in general and the different approaches to solving it in particular, but it seems that Reeves is pushing for political and military action, which seems to be needed badly, since there doesn&#8217;t seem to be any improvement &#8211; I wonder why this is regarded as not quite kosher, but then, as I said, I don&#8217;t know the details</p>

	<p>generally, though, I have become quite disillusioned with the effect relief agencies have on conflicts like these; a lot of humanitarian catastrophes are the result of bad government and lack of international will to push the parties towards conflict resolution; it seems to me that putting pressure on the powers that be to reach a political solution is a much more efficient way to help the victims of such conflicts and that, while short-term relief is necessary, long-term efforts can actually be counterproductive, as they have the side-effect of stabilizing a horrible situation letting the conflict parties carry on doing what they do and the international community get away with ignoring it</p>

	<p>the above is just a somewhat informed intuition, I&#8217;m curious what others with maybe more information or even experience have to say</p>
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		<title>By: moriaty</title>
		<link>http://crookedtimber.org/2006/12/21/gift-guide-charitable-giving/comment-page-1/#comment-182481</link>
		<dc:creator>moriaty</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Dec 2006 18:38:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Contrary to what the post suggests, the NYT article is written by Singer and is about charitable giving. It is not about charitable giving by Peter Singer. [&lt;i&gt;Added clarification. -- Ed.&lt;/i&gt;]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p>Contrary to what the post suggests, the <span class="caps">NYT</span> article is written by Singer and is about charitable giving. It is not about charitable giving by Peter Singer. [<i>Added clarification.&#8212;Ed.</i>]</p>
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		<title>By: The Modesto Kid</title>
		<link>http://crookedtimber.org/2006/12/21/gift-guide-charitable-giving/comment-page-1/#comment-182478</link>
		<dc:creator>The Modesto Kid</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Dec 2006 17:46:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I always like to put in a plug for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.heifer.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Heifer Project&lt;/a&gt;. In lieu of giving your friend an actual water buffalo or hive of bees, you can give that livestock to a needy farmer on his/her behalf.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p>I always like to put in a plug for <a href="http://www.heifer.org" rel="nofollow">Heifer Project</a>. In lieu of giving your friend an actual water buffalo or hive of bees, you can give that livestock to a needy farmer on his/her behalf.</p>
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		<title>By: Adam</title>
		<link>http://crookedtimber.org/2006/12/21/gift-guide-charitable-giving/comment-page-1/#comment-182475</link>
		<dc:creator>Adam</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Dec 2006 16:42:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Paypal does have a different fee structure for charities - at least in the uk: https://www.paypal.com/uk/charity/.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p>Paypal does have a different fee structure for charities &#8211; at least in the uk: <a href="https://www.paypal.com/uk/charity/" rel="nofollow">https://www.paypal.com/uk/charity/</a>.</p>
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		<title>By: Eszter</title>
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		<dc:creator>Eszter</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Dec 2006 16:29:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>There&#039;s certainly the option of donating to those causes directly. 

&lt;a href=&quot;https://secure.ga4.org/01/support_now?qp_source=hp%5fdn%5fundes&amp;other_amount=&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Save the Children&lt;/a&gt; (although it&#039;s not clear whether you can specify Darfur as the target cause, but I&#039;m sure their other causes need plenty of support as well)

&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.msf.org/msfinternational/donations/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Doctors without Borders&lt;/a&gt; links to various country organizations. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;U.S. here.&lt;/a&gt;  Again, no way to specify target spending, I don&#039;t think.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p>There&#8217;s certainly the option of donating to those causes directly.</p>

	<p><a href="https://secure.ga4.org/01/support_now?qp_source=hp%5fdn%5fundes&#038;other_amount=" rel="nofollow">Save the Children</a> (although it&#8217;s not clear whether you can specify Darfur as the target cause, but I&#8217;m sure their other causes need plenty of support as well)</p>

	<p><a href="http://www.msf.org/msfinternational/donations/" rel="nofollow">Doctors without Borders</a> links to various country organizations. <a href="http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/" rel="nofollow">U.S. here.</a>  Again, no way to specify target spending, I don&#8217;t think.</p>
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		<title>By: dsquared</title>
		<link>http://crookedtimber.org/2006/12/21/gift-guide-charitable-giving/comment-page-1/#comment-182473</link>
		<dc:creator>dsquared</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Dec 2006 15:57:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>hmm grmble.  Save the Children and Medecins sans Frontieres are relief organisations, but &quot;Save Darfur&quot; and Eric Reeves&#039; campaign aren&#039;t.  They&#039;re campaigning organisations advocating non-consensual UN intervention, which is not the same thing.  Eric Reeves was specifically not part of the &quot;Day for Darfur&quot; campaign because the umbrella group involved didn&#039;t want to be associated with his specific views on decapitating the Sudanese state.  Caution advised here.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[	<p>hmm grmble.  Save the Children and Medecins sans Frontieres are relief organisations, but &#8220;Save Darfur&#8221; and Eric Reeves&#8217; campaign aren&#8217;t.  They&#8217;re campaigning organisations advocating non-consensual UN intervention, which is not the same thing.  Eric Reeves was specifically not part of the &#8220;Day for Darfur&#8221; campaign because the umbrella group involved didn&#8217;t want to be associated with his specific views on decapitating the Sudanese state.  Caution advised here.</p>
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