Thanks to Glenn Reynolds for the link. It’s obsolete, so go here:

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That’s the entire category.

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BBC
Philanthropy is so well established it has spawned its own academic discipline.
New York University has a department of philanthropy. There is also the Chronicle of Philanthropy.
I have even attended a philanthropy workshop in the bowels of Congress, where rich Americans learned how to give their money away and how to make sure it was spent [...]

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Habitat for Humanity
In the year since the Indian Ocean tsunami, Habitat for Humanity has assisted an estimated 6,000 households in India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand to gain permanent housing. Over the next 24 months, Habitat for Humanity plans to provide direct housing assistance to as many as 20,000 families, and to assist 10,000 to [...]

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It’s one year since the tsunami ravaged the coasts of South Asia. If you’d like to read about the initial relief effort, it’s fairly well documented in my blog. I originated the Stingy List, a PDF file listing the billion plus dollars donated to tsunami relief by Americans, individuals, businesses and groups.
The Financial Times had [...]

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Poliblog points out this story. Time picks three very rich people as their person[s] of the year. For their giving, of course.
I agree with him that there were a number of better choices.
I once wrote that while it was laudable what Princess Diana did in her chairitable endeavours, she could afford to. Bill and Melinda [...]

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I’m no longer working on the Stingy List, but I did want to point out that tsunami charity continues worldwide.

Gulf TimesBRITISH Airways together with Ramada Hotel and Doha Golf Club has raised QR180,000 for Southeast Asia’s tsunami-stricken children. The money was raised at an auction gala dinner organised during a celebrity amateur golf tournament, with [...]

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I’ve completed a more detailed look at the state of tsunami aid on the six month anniversary of the disaster. That page is called Tsunami Aid. It’s not meant to be comprehensive, just representative of the work that’s been done and that to be done. It covers the world’s response, not just Americas. If you [...]

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I can now reveal:
I was interviewed by a reporter with Reuters, in London, on Monday of this week. This followed several e-mails from their Washington Bureau.
They were researching a story about tsunami aid on the sixth month anniversary, and they had come across The Stingy List [PDF file}. Here is the portion of the report [...]

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I have been interviewed about the Stingy List by a certain European news agency. They are working on a story about the donations to tsunami relief and where we stand at the six month anniversary. I will post about the story when it goes on the wire, which should be this week. I have no [...]

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News 24International medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres is tracking down hundreds of thousands of tsunami donors worldwide and offering them their money back after it received four times as much money as it needed, a report said on Wednesday.
In Australia alone the charity sent out more than 4 000 letters telling donors it could not [...]

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Another source has also been tracking the giving of Americans for tsunami relief. They asked permission to use my work early on, but never, NEVER, gave me a link or a credit. Poopie heads! Anyway, here’s what they came up with:
Center on Philanthropy:

Cash (includes organizations not publicly reporting their totals)

1,164,623,396

Value of in-kind gifts reported

116,947,716

Total cash [...]

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