International Charitable Giving

The crisis across the Horn of Africa is startling and heart breaking. Here are some ways you can help right now.

Somalia is the hot spot right now, but there are more than enough emergencies around the world today. We all want to help but are sometimes confused about how.

A charitable gift account is set up through a national charitable fund (often called a donor-advised fund). It is a way anyone who can contribute $5,000 or more to help support worthy charities in a safe, easy manner.

Global giving has become important to most philanthropists. Americans give about $300 billion to charitable causes annually. charitable giving. Only about 5% of that is spent on international causes

Peter Singer wants to convince us that 1) global poverty can be eradicated and 2) we are all capable of giving more to accomplish that goal without really depriving ourselves.

There are so many places to put your charitable dollars today. But it is harder than ever to discern where your donation will do the most good. Peter Singer, author of The Life You Can Save and a bioethicist at Princeton University, suggests we channel our charitable giving to combat global poverty. He makes a wonderful case for this in his