{"id":227,"date":"2007-09-20T16:07:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-20T21:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2007\/09\/20\/help-others-by-spending-money-on-yourself\/"},"modified":"2009-11-29T15:02:28","modified_gmt":"2009-11-29T20:02:28","slug":"help-others-by-spending-money-on-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2007\/09\/20\/help-others-by-spending-money-on-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"Help Others by Spending Money on Yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"

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30% of the retail price of these shirts will be donated to “some of the country’s best charities. What better excuse to go shopping?” The retail price is $68. The charities are:<\/p>\n

Women in Need
Free Arts NYC
Rape Treatment Center at Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center
National Multiple Sclerosis Society
Children’s Hope India
American Refugee Committee’s Darfur Relief Effort<\/p>\n

I like these kinds of things because they bring up two issues: Why don’t people just contribute $20 (or, in most cases, something like 10 cents) directly instead of filtering it through a corporation? And should we have to personally get something out of it in order to contribute to worthy causes?<\/p>\n

For other examples, look here<\/a>, here<\/a>, and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

30% of the retail price of these shirts will be donated to “some of the country’s best charities. What better excuse to go shopping?” The retail price is $68. The charities are: Women in NeedFree Arts NYCRape Treatment Center at Santa Monica-UCLA Medical CenterNational Multiple Sclerosis SocietyChildren’s Hope IndiaAmerican Refugee Committee’s Darfur Relief Effort I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12508,225,229,55,2095,64,252,23703,1784,1803],"class_list":["post-227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-activismsocial-movements","tag-clothesfashion","tag-consumption","tag-gender","tag-gender-feminismactivism","tag-globalization","tag-healthmedicine","tag-marketing","tag-nation-india","tag-nation-sudan"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17130,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions\/17130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}