How can businesses use charity referral programs to end poverty?
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There is a way - a totally new campaign - you may correctly guess the name! The Red Corner Campaign!\n\nIt is much bigger than a referral campaign - and does not rely on donations.  It is time that charity became commercially viable - on a global scale and without compromising the charitable and altruistic nature of private and corporate donations.\n\nWe will leverage the power of the socially responsible consumer, the power of charity brands and the surge in support for ethical and charitable causes to deliver sustainable funding for the causes we care about.\n\nRed Corner is pre-launch - so you won't find us on the web - but in 2007 you will definitely hear - very loudly and very powerfully.\n\nRedCorner is coming.\n\nRed Corner will enable sustainable private sector charitable funding in billions within a few short years of launch.
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I would probably just go out to a poor developing country, maybe in Africa, and try to invest it in the infra structure of the country, maybe try to start a "free educational program" for any family supporting individual. Maybe I will just go there and try to relieve some suffering, in any of its forms, ask the people how would the money would keep itself being reinvested so that there could be some actual "change" among the people that were suffering.
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Buy something for someone else in a poor country through Oxfam or another charity.  It is a very worthwhile thing to do.  You will fell good for helping someone who isn't well off and the person who has everything will feel good too.  Believe me it works.
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We do a program called Partners in Education  where local businesses help out with donations or our wish lists every year. WalMart ( I know....evil) is a real big help to us.  Sometimes attorneys offices are looking for a tie to the community and they will sponsor or help out in ways that others can't.  Try local not national branches of banks as well.
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I take it you are not within the US. Here are some places where you may be able to find financing for your microfinance project:\n\n1. Start with any Grameen Bank type of institutions in your country. These non-governmental organizations main goal is to eradicate poverty through self sustenance and they do it through microlending.\n\n2. Go to the local government if they have any poverty eradication programs, and whether your organization could be a microfinance supplier\n\n3. Research projects of multilateral institutitions such as World Bank, Asian Development Bank (if Asia) or Africa Development Bank (if Africa) or United Nations Development Program and check who is the conduit institutions for their microlending projects. These organizations typically deal with the government so there is one agency handling this type of project. To a lesser extent do they deal with NGOs.\n\n4. Check with development finance banks (not commercial banks). In the Philippines, there are a few development finance banks that provide capital for such type of endeavor.
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Give money whenever you see someone in poverty.
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So far the government has been a failure in response to poverty. Social programs don't work as they allow for to many people to cheat. How ever the Clinton approach was closest to the best in my opinion, he helped to create an environment where everybody that wanted to work could get a job. His welfare to work program, raising taxes on the very rich and reinvesting it in the poor without giving it to them might be something that needs to be looked into closer. Education is an influence on poverty. Everybody needs to be something whether it is a taxi driver or a doctor everybody has potential for something.
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OK.  Your non-profit has a purpose statement of some kind.  Now surf the internet looking for foundations interested in your goals.  Contact them for grant application procedures and follow them EXACTLY.  Try to use the same jargon the foundation uses in describing its purposes, to the extent they fit.  There are some key words that just have to get in there: the name of a specific disease if your job it to combat it or offer support services for it.  The name of your specific mentor or inspiration (e.g., Martin Luthor King for anything about minority rights or nonviolence).  And exactly what you want the money for:  rental on a storefront, salary for an executive secretary, food to donate to the poor, whatever.\n\nDon't take the first "no" for final, if you get one.  Generally, they will tell you (you may have to ask) why your application failed.  If so, try to rewrite your application and resubmit it, curing whatever defects you can, and justifying whatever you cannot change.  For example, they may say "We don't believe in store-fronts.  You must have an office in a respectible office building."  Then you would go into detail about the prevailing conditions in your community, how each type of location is perceived by the potetial beneficiaries of your program, etc.\n\nI've done it, although not since the 1970s.  Some things are clearly faster now, due to faster communications technology.  But the principal is the same:  you must convince the foundation that your organization's goals are consistent with theirs, and that you will be effecting in meeting the goals you describe.\n\nGood luck!
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your business is how you make money, your charity is how you give money
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First answer is right.\n\nWhere do you live?\n\nIf in a developing country you may find many illiterate people in the business at small scale. They know the techniques of lowering the cost.\n\nIf you can win their confidence they will really help you out.
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Well...the things I have done are small, but I think that they are helpful.\n\nI used to work for an inner city nursery, so would keep an eye out for sales on clothes at retail, second hand, and garage sales to give clothing to indigent children going home.\n\nOur work sponsors a family every year for Christmas, helping them with food, clothes, toys.  We all give to that.\n\nI volunteer on Thanksgiving to serve food to the homeless every year.\n\nI donate to random charities--breast cancer, childrens homes, Goodwill, American Cancer Society, my college alumni association, and a local chapter on STD/AIDS prevention.\n\nThink I do a fair amount...could do more though.
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No funds for that specific purpose since it is a very rare necessity. You can however write a grant proposal, have it signed by at least 500 people within you community and submit it to the charity organizations in your area.
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Maybe you can do it the old fasioned way:  go door to door, and ask people to give you money.\n\nIf that doesn't work, write letters to rich multi-millionaire Democrats like John Kerry, Ted Kennedy, Barbara Boxer, Chuck Schumer, Michael Moore, and Hillary Clinton.  They're always telling us the poor deserve more, well, here's their chance to step up and lead by example.
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Call your local, county or state bar association referral service and ask for one. Or call any large law firm, since they are likely to have lawyers doing pro bono work. You may be able to get a referral by calling your area United Way first call or any charitable agency. Most pro bono lawyers only takes cases referred by a screening agency of some kind.
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I provided a link below so people can know more what you talking about. They wanting money like most things, not saying it good or bad.\nWhat I do, is help locally with people I know and then I know 100% of my money does help the child.
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Check with management and see if you can put a charity tin beside the cash register (nail it down too). \nHave a small sign asking for any 'small change for the needy', details and a pic on the tin so the customers know it's a legitimate charity.\nMake sure you return the customers change by passing it in front of the tin to make it noticable. (Ever notice how some people go blind in front of things like that?) \nSmile, and they'll probably just drop it in.\n\nYou'll have helped someone feel good about themselves too.
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Good luck getting a pharmaceutical company to do anything close to charitable! They are in business for the PROFITS!