Charity Checks: the Gift of Giving
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Run completely on Macs, Charity Checks is a giving program that lets you make contributions to any charity while your gift recipient chooses the cause. With Charity Checks everyone comes out a winner.
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By Dr. Jacques Gibble  As I write this, seasonal music is playing on the radio and I am reminded that this is a special time of year. I am going to talk about two gifts worth giving and then offer a New Year's challenge.   The first one is an unselfish gift to others.
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Buy a Dell PC, help plant a tree ... that is, if you care to make a donation.
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When we give to charity, we're picky. Learn what we look for.
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Recent research shows some unexpected links between income and giving.
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Innovation doesn't stop when the giving starts.
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Online charitable gift cards allow the recipient to choose the organization that will receive the money given in his or her name.
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The holiday season is a time of giving for love and friendship, but also because end-of-year tax planners encourage their clients to make deductible gifts to charities and personal gifts
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Being charitable is a good way to get into the holiday spirit. But the Internal Revenue Service is concerned that a lot of taxpayers sidestep the spirit of the law by going overboard on how they deduct contributions.
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(InfoWorld) - Credit card thieves are becoming big-time charity donors, but it's not out of the goodness of their hearts. According to Symantec, the criminals are starting to use charitable donations as a way to check whether their stolen credit card numbers are working. Fraudsters have been using a similar technique for years, but until recently, they tended to make minor purchases on online retail sites. Now, as these sites have become better at identifying and blocking these transactions, the criminals have begun looking elsewhere, said Zulfikar Ramzan, senior principal researcher with Symantec. "Using a charitable organization as a way to verify a credit card number is a relatively new technique, and it's probably being used by a minority of the more innovative guys," he said. Credit card numbers are bought and sold in underground "carder" forums, which bring together the people who have stolen the credit card numbers with those who want to use them. These charitable donations are typically made by the person buying the card numbers as a final check to ensure that the numbers will work, Ramzan said. Last month, the Red Cross was forced to return nearly $7,000 that was donated in the course of 700 fraudulent transactions, said Carrie Martin, a spokeswoman for the American Red Cross. "We routinely see this kind of activity," she said. "We have someone in place who deals with this on a regular basis." This fraud accounted for a tiny sliver of the Red Cross's $6 billion in revenue last year, but the organization also has to pay staff to stay on top of the fraud, Martin said. This is not the only time that fraudsters have found ways to misuse charities. In another common scam, the criminal will give the charity a fake check and ask that a portion of it be returned in cash. Though the check will initially clear in the charity's bank account it will eventually be returned. By then, however, the charity will have already paid out to the thieves. "These kinds of things have hit charities before," said Ramzan "I feel bad because all these charities are trying to do good and you have these fraudsters that try to take advantage of them because of the way they work."
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NEW YORK - Few things are more popular than free money in the form of a gift token ... unless it is redeemable at a store you don&#39;t like.
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Â£5m is being given to a charity that will fund research and educational initiatives dedicated to the net.
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LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM.- A new scheme is being introduced in the United Kingdom where museums will be able to claim Gift Aid on both the admission fee and the donation.
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What a minefield giving can be. And it can be particularly complicated when you're a regifter, which involves giving someone something that you had received as a gift (or an item that you have stashed in the back of your closet).
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Here's a novel way to be a philanthropist.
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A genetic blood test allowing a much closer match between donors and recipients is under development.
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Gifts that will disappear, but not because they have been regifted.