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Thursday, February 08, 2007
GiveABetterWay.org
I saw this on a bus-stop brochure in Denver. It got my attention. Their web-site is GiveABetterWay.org.
Hats off to these folks, trying to make a real difference.
When I first came to Chicago, I was out and about more often, and approached by panhandlers. I had a little time on my hands, so I tried to verify the stories I was told.
"My car broke down a couple blocks over: could I get a couple bucks for gas?"
"Ok! Let's go get some gas and put it in. Where is it?"
"Well, it's, um, COME ON, MAN! Just a couple bucks!"
Every single one lied to me. Maybe a dozen or so of these situations aren't statistically significant. But organizations like this (and Evanston's) show the same trend.
I'm convinced that knowledge is power. One corollary: informed compassion is more effective than uninformed compassion, and therefore more compassionate.
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the web site is defunct.
How do you know WHERE
the money goes...?
: 6/18/2010 10:19 PMHere's a snapshot of the now-defunct site:
http://web.archive.org/web/20080304144823/http://www.giveabetterway.org/. It makes reference to http://denversroadhome.org/
You say: How do you know WHERE
the money goes...? My point exactly: where does the money go when you put it in a panhandler's hand?
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