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if you were to make it big.... how would you give back to your community?.. or would you even? i have multiple sclerosis... i want to make it big and then be able to open up my own foundation for finding a cure and better medication... what would you do? Nov 24 06 07:24 pm Link Yes. (The rest gets very personal.) Nov 24 06 07:25 pm Link Marko Cecic-Karuzic wrote: understandable Nov 24 06 07:26 pm Link No need in waiting to make it big⦠We all need to give back to the community right now. I donate to many charitable organizations, schools, churches, Susan G. Koman breast cancer org., habitat for humanity, and others. If I ever make it big I will just be able to give more to those that need it. Ron Nov 24 06 07:30 pm Link Nope. I pretty much hate where I live and the people in it. I'd give some money to my family, especially to my dad so that him, his girlfriend and my brother don't have to live in a tiny rented house anymore, I'd give a load to my mum so that she could retire to Italy and make pots, and I'd give a load to my boyfriend so that he wouldn't have to worry about being homeless anymore and then I'd move in with him. Nov 24 06 07:30 pm Link I would do the same thing I do now but on a larger scale. Nov 24 06 07:30 pm Link When I'm out of college, out of credit card debt, etc etc (i.e. making money, lol) I'm going to donate to music foundations (like Save the Music) and animal organizations (not like PETA but like local shelters and animal rescue efforts). Nov 24 06 07:31 pm Link Ron Casas wrote: well ya~ but i cant open a foundation now- Nov 24 06 07:31 pm Link I would donate a lot to Organ Donor Awareness organizations. My sister was a donor. Nov 24 06 07:34 pm Link My family started a donation/collection of Christmas items for families in need when I was only two. As far back as I can remember we always collected toys and extras through the year, fixed the used toys and sorted the new toys and other things then used a uhaul to take them to the shelter where I can remember long lines of moms thanking us. I would love to be able to donate alot of new things and alot of teen things. No one ever gave much for teenagers, and I always felt bad for them. We also feed alot of homeless. If I had more money, I would like to feed even more. There is so much need everywhere, it would just be nice to be able to do more... Nov 25 06 02:22 am Link My # 1 thing I'd want to give back to is Animal Rights but I'd also like to give back to environmental groups,groups that help people with depression or other mental illnesses,and groups that help people with crohn's disease Nov 25 06 02:46 am Link It's not exactly charity. but there are several class-action suits against huge companies that really need funding.. I want Monsanto destroyed, for instance. Mostly environment offenders. I still feel a lot of the diseases are linked to pollution, so I'd rather fight there. Nov 25 06 08:08 am Link I've not made it big... YET... lol I donate my time as a photographer to several foundations... just my way of helping out. Some of the contacts I made have lend to paying jobs. If/When I make it big... Yeah I'll do more than I am now in many different ways. Nov 25 06 08:49 am Link My family established an endowed college scholarship fund for students with financial difficulties. The fund has helped many students continue school and reach their goals. I would love to establish more college scholarship funds at various universities across the country WHEN I make it big. I'm an optimist  ang Nov 25 06 09:09 am Link ang m wrote: There are many different ways to give back. But I think give back to eduaction is probably more effective than anything else. I have to thank you for all the future students I might have that would benefit from your gifts. Nov 25 06 11:17 am Link Me Me! All for me and none for you. Sorry that is not entirly true. I would give to my local call girl business and to the local beer store. Nov 25 06 11:21 am Link Golden Light wrote: ... interesting Nov 25 06 04:11 pm Link Nitasha wrote: I'm working on a way to give back now....www.pinups4.com - a logo'd clothing site and photo/print/artwork sale site with the profits going to charity' Nov 26 06 09:25 am Link When living in Denver I coordinated basket brigades with my immediate neighbors several times a year, typically around major holidays. I would ask my neighbors to clean out their pantries and then deliver the food to local shelters. Nobody ever felt I was imposing on them by asking as I would deliver flyers letting them know I would be coming by on a certain date. In fact, it made them feel like they were part of something bigger. Simple, easy and helpful! Wenzel Nov 26 06 11:56 am Link Give £ to the childrens hospice, the fibromyalgia association, epilepsy action UK and use some £ for the treatments I need that are highly expensive and the gvt. will not pay for. Vixen. Nov 26 06 08:26 pm Link I hate that term, "give back" - anything I'm "taking" may be a result of the way the economy works... Innamorata - I understand, and don't let anyone guilt you into believing you must be charitable with what you don't have. Doing so is most rewarding when one honestly feels they're in a comfortable enough situation in life to do so BTW, nice nickname. My causes: * OCD research and treatment; other mental illnesses included * volunteering at a retirement home, because I think it might be poetically inspiring; not to mention feeling that I, too, can be a little altruistic - even if selfishly * helping those with body image problems... Ah - maybe that's how I'm "taking." *runs into same damn moral dilemma again* ~S. Nov 27 06 12:35 am Link While it's nice to think about donating sums to large charitable organizations that would serve the needs of many, many people, I would not do that. I'd prefer to seek out everyone in my life who'd touched my life in positive ways and would return the love and support ... I'd work to make their lives magical. It'd be more personal and more meaningful that way ... at least to me it would be. I would seek out and reward those people who stood behind me when I least deserved it ... who picked me up when I was down ... who taught me the lessons I refused to learn on my own ... who pointed the way when I was lost ... who believed in me when I doubted myself. Nov 27 06 12:48 am Link Sabina N wrote: Me too. One of the reasons that modeling isn't my main profession is that I've always wanted a career in service. I teach and I think that teaching is one of the most efficient ways of changing the world for the better. I'm also a scientist, I believe that adding to the world's store of knowledge is a very noble act. It troubles me that most people think of their jobs as "taking away" from the world - that they need to "give back" to break even. Nov 27 06 12:50 am Link markcomp wrote: Yup. Nov 27 06 03:43 am Link i will hire every model on MM. Nov 27 06 05:10 am Link markcomp wrote: The perfect answer, and one I agree with. Nov 27 06 05:17 am Link I figure I will only be recognized for my true genuis after I am dead. so I'm an organ donor.Nov 27 06 10:25 am Link "Giving back" isn't always what it seems: Now charity staff hit at cult of celebrity Workers for children's charity Unicef say celebrity campaigns and fashion company deals are hurting its image Dan McDougall in Islamabad Sunday November 26, 2006 The Observer The new vogue among the biggest catwalk labels is to adopt a charity to tell the world you have a heart. Last week Gucci joined Prada, Armani and Jean Paul Gaultier to become the latest label to embrace philanthropy by launching an exclusive Christmas gift collection in conjunction with Unicef, the United Nations children's fund. But the motivation for alliances between high fashion and charity is being increasingly questioned by international pressure groups involved in the daily fight against sweatshops and, perhaps most embarrassingly for the UN, by their own front-line officers. The Observer has learnt that, in a series of memos to the UN headquarters in New York, senior Unicef ground staff in South Asia have expressed their resentment at the charities' love affair with glamour and celebrity, fearing that the association is not only demeaning the UN 'brand' but also portraying its workers as hypocrites. Read the rest here: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/st … 24,00.html Nov 27 06 10:36 am Link I don't plan on making it big, but if I do, I'd give back to the people who helped me get there. Then I'd probably help out the make-a-wish foundation. Curious, what made you think your own foundation would do better than the existing MS society? Medical research is a large scale, capital-intensive process. Wouldn't it be more effective to help rather than to start your own? Nov 27 06 10:42 am Link Pasha Morena wrote: Apparently you didn't drink enough bleach. Nov 27 06 10:43 am Link CLT wrote: apparently not. Though there's always next time. Nov 27 06 10:50 am Link I would give back by supporting various causes I believe such as the Pirate Party (http://www.pp-international.net/), the EFF (http://www.eff.org/) and various anti-censorship and other liberal causes. Chances are that won't make me popular with any of the real pros here, but that's where my views lie. Nov 27 06 11:13 am Link i already give *gave use of some photos for education magazines *some historic landmarks *give extra change to those/these organizations my uncle has muscular distrophy my aunt has m-s my other uncle is a colon cancer survivor my other uncle died from lung cancer my grandfather died from alcohol my grandfather died in ww2 my step-grandfather from cancer my other aunt died from krones my grandmother died from smoking my other grandmother died from diabetes/stroke *donate to mmadd *donate to childrens miracle network *donate to other non-profits maybe if i keep it for myself i would be rich.... Nov 27 06 11:22 am Link I give what little I can right now. It's certainly not on a large scale, but I try to do something. When I make it to a more stable point, I hope to be able to 'pay it forward'. Many people in my life have been so giving and helpful that I want to be able to do the same for people in the future. Nov 27 06 11:32 am Link Sabina N wrote: Thanks Nov 27 06 01:49 pm Link |
