A Tauranga couple decided to forgo wedding gifts, instead asking their guests for a donation for the Tauranga Moana Night Shelter. The couple were gifted just over $2000 for the shelter and said they already had plenty of household appliances and cutlery sets. Continue reading
Posts Tagged ‘Charity’
The Church – the world’s biggest charity
Thursday, February 23rd, 2017
Stalin famously said of the Church, “The Pope! How many divisions has he?” Less well known is Churchill’s response that Stalin “might have mentioned a number of legions not always visible on parade”. Indeed, the reach and influence of the Church are not easily described by statistics alone, yet the raw statistics are staggering enough. Read more
Pope Francis: does what he talks about
Monday, February 20th, 2017
Whenever Pope Francis talks about the need to welcome immigrants, to build bridges not walls, and to invest in the countries from which people are fleeing, critics inevitably will ask, “Okay, but what are you doing about it?” From snarky observations about the walls around Vatican city to wry observations about all the under-utilized ecclesiastical Read more
A charity that has a loyalty programme for donors
Friday, September 30th, 2016A Whangarei child poverty charity is a finalist in the community innovation category at the NZI Sustainable Business Network Awards. The New Zealand Network Charity’s unique fundraising loyalty programme, called ‘network member with rewards’, allows people to register as a member, pay a membership fee and then have access to discounts and special offers from supporter businesses. Read more
A caring country
Friday, September 2nd, 2016
A friend who divides her time between New Zealand and the European country of her birth, says New Zealand is the most caring country in the world. “People look out for each other,” she says. “If someone falls in the street, people run to help them.” Her opinion may be fashioned by her own compassionate Read more
Lorde donates $20,000 to help feed hungry Kiwi kids
Friday, July 1st, 2016Singer Lorde has donated $20,000 to a struggling Hutt Valley charity that feeds hungry schoolchildren. Fuel the Need got the donation via its Givealittle page yesterday. An apparent message from the pop star on the website reads “Good on you Manuel and Fuel the Need. Hope this helps a little bit.” The message also says Read more
Declining religion may contribute to decline in charity
Tuesday, June 28th, 2016Inland Revenue data shows the number of people filing a tax return to claim a tax rebate on donations has fallen year-on-year over the past three tax years, from 383,144 in the year to March 2013 to 359,541 in the 2015 year. Tax refund site MyTax analysed more than 300,000 tax returns and found the average total Read more
Cardinals: Don’t use charity as a conversion tool
Tuesday, March 1st, 2016Two top cardinals say that as Catholics engage in charity around the world, they must be careful not to put their desire to convert people to their faith ahead of their missionary work. Speaking at the “Charity will never end” conference organized by the Vatican’s Pontifical Council Cor Unum, an umbrella office to coordinate the Read more
Non-givers to charity double
Friday, September 25th, 2015There has been a big jump in the number of New Zealanders not giving to charity, a University of Otago study shows. The University of Otago New Zealand Consumer Lifestyles Study, published late last month, reveals the percentage of people never giving to charity has doubled. “I suspect it is about their ability to give, Read more