Charity is considered as a moral obligation throughout the world, and a huge amount of money comes into circulation in the name of charity. In most of the cases, the charity collection processes are ...not transparent, and due to this the charitable organizations struggle to gain donors’ trust and interest. This article presents a blockchain-based charity management platform that aims to provide a transparent, secure, auditable, and efficient system. The proposed platform comprehensively covers charity collection process using crypto wallets, Initial Coin Offering (ICO), economic model, and introduces CharityCoin (CC) as a digital currency. Furthermore, smart-contracts for pertinent use cases have also been provided, which include exchanging fiat currency to CC, buying and selling CC, transferring CC to organizations and individuals, and call for donations. Finally, the performance evaluation shows that proposed architecture scales well for large data size.
Religion and Charity Weller, Robert P.; Huang, C. Julia; Wu, Keping ...
10/2017
eBook
Free markets alone do not work effectively to solve certain kinds of human problems, such as education, old age care, or disaster relief. Nor have markets ever been the sole solution to the ...psychological challenges of death, suffering, or injustice. Instead, we find a major role for the non-market institutions of society - the family, the state, and social institutions. The first in-depth anthropological study of charities in contemporary Chinese societies, this book focuses on the unique ways that religious groups have helped to solve the problems of social well-being. Using comparative case studies in China, Taiwan and Malaysia during the 1980s and onwards, it identifies new forms of religious philanthropy as well as new ideas of social 'good', including different forms of political merit-making, new forms of civic selfhood, and the rise of innovative social forms, including increased leadership by women. The book finally argues that the spread of these ideas is an incomplete process, with many alternative notions of goodness continuing to be influential.
A comprehensive history of one of the largest charitable
organizations in early modern America.
Drawing on extensive archival records, Beyond
Benevolence tells the fascinating story of the New York
...Charity Organization Society. The period between 1880 and 1935
marked a seminal, heavily debated change in American social welfare
and philanthropy. The New York Charity Organization Society was at
the center of these changes and played a key role in helping to
reshape the philanthropic landscape.
Greeley uncovers rarely seen letters written to wealthy donors
by working-class people, along with letters from donors and case
entries. These letters reveal the myriad complex relationships,
power struggles, and shifting alliances that developed among
donors, clients, and charity workers over decades as they
negotiated the meaning of charity, the basis of entitlement, and
the extent of the obligation between classes in New York.
Meticulously researched and uniquely focused on the day-to-day
practice of scientific charity as much as its theory, Beyond
Benevolence offers a powerful glimpse into how the trajectory
of one charitable organization reflected a nation's momentous
social, economic, and political upheavals as it moved into the 20th
century.
The first comprehensive history of American Jewish philanthropy and its influence on democracy and capitalism For years, American Jewish philanthropy has been celebrated as the proudest product of ...Jewish endeavors in the United States, its virtues extending from the local to the global, the Jewish to the non-Jewish, and modest donations to vast endowments. Yet, as Lila Corwin Berman illuminates in The American Jewish Philanthropic Complex, the history of American Jewish philanthropy reveals the far more complicated reality of changing and uneasy relationships among philanthropy, democracy, and capitalism.With a fresh eye and lucid prose, and relying on previously untapped sources, Berman shows that from its nineteenth-century roots to its apex in the late twentieth century, the American Jewish philanthropic complex tied Jewish institutions to the American state. The government's regulatory efforts—most importantly, tax policies—situated philanthropy at the core of its experiments to maintain the public good without trammeling on the private freedoms of individuals. Jewish philanthropic institutions and leaders gained financial strength, political influence, and state protections within this framework. However, over time, the vast inequalities in resource distribution that marked American state policy became inseparable from philanthropic practice. By the turn of the millennium, Jewish philanthropic institutions reflected the state's growing investment in capitalism against democratic interests. But well before that, Jewish philanthropy had already entered into a tight relationship with the governing forces of American life, reinforcing and even transforming the nation's laws and policies. The American Jewish Philanthropic Complex uncovers how capitalism and private interests came to command authority over the public good, in Jewish life and beyond.
Phoenix Futures supports parents to address substance use, both during pregnancy and after their child is born, through support programmes and links to local services
Naomi Delap, director of Birth Companions, emphasises the need for a better approach to working with women who have contact with social care teams during pregnancy and early motherhood
Multiple birth families experience unique challenges that require specialist care. Twins Trust works with midwives and other healthcare professionals across the UK to support these families
Sally Bunkham outlines the various support services provided by the PANDAS Foundation for families experiencing mental health issues both pre- and postnatally
Giving to God examines the everyday practices of Islamic giving in post-revolutionary Egypt. From foods prepared in Sufi soup kitchens, to meals distributed by pious volunteers in slums, to ...almsgiving, these acts are ultimately about giving to God by giving to the poor. Surprisingly, many who practice such giving say that they do not care about the poor, instead framing their actions within a unique non-compassionate ethics of giving. At first, this form of giving may appear deeply selfish, but further consideration reveals that it avoids many of the problems associated with the idea of "charity." Using the Egyptian uprising in 2011 and its call for social justice as a backdrop, this beautifully crafted ethnography suggests that "giving a man a fish" might ultimately be more revolutionary than "teaching a man to fish."
