Theme of Zoom Meeting: Charity
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Questions:
1. What is your definition of charity?
2. How do you decide if a charitable organization is worthy of your support?
3. Does growing economic inequality have a negative or positive effect on the total of charitable giving?
4. What is the greatest act of charity you have ever witnessed?
5. Should billionaires and millionaires be obligated by our Government to donate a certain percentage of their wealth to charity?
6. Can you think of any reasons (YouTube) that might justify someone to stop giving money to charities?
7. How can children be influenced to be more charitable?
8. What motivates people to be charitable?
9. Can you show charity in other ways besides giving money?
10. What questions should you consider before donating to a charity or any non-profit organization?
11. In a family discussion of charitable giving, what questions might the discussion focus on?
12. What motivates some givers to remain anonymous while others choose to go public?
13. Should congregants be required to donate a percentage of their income to their religious organization?
14. How can philanthropy be motivated by selfishness?
15. What is the greatest act of public charity you have ever heard of?
16. What nations are known for their generosity in supporting charitable giving?
17. Do women tend to be more generous, more giving than men?
18. Can you guess what billionaires have been the most charitable?
Quotations:
"We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop." --Mother Teresa
1. "We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop." --Mother Teresa
2. "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."-Mahatma Gandhi
3. The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service." -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
4. "We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." --Winston Churchill
5. Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
6. Be charitable and indulgent to everyone but yourself. Joseph Joubert
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