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I'll start this off by saying that I work in a very strange company. Our CEO has a very clear vision that culture inside the company is the most important variable that drives our business to success. This culture takes on a plethora of different challenges, and one of them is something called "Change the World" wherein, you guessed it, my company is trying to literally change the world. One good deed at a time.
The amount of positive reinforcement is phenomenal at my work, and it shows. We've received numerous awards for "Best place to work in San Diego" and we're now on a campaign to try and branch out to other people, and other companies to not only network for our company, but to attempt to make the world a better place.
So people were selected at random to perform an act of kindness with a budget (this budget was provided by the company). I received $5 as my budget, and I know that doesn't seem like a lot, because it definitely didn't seem like a lot to me, but I thought about it: People in under developed countries could be helped immensely by donations such as this. I know it's cliche that NO donation is ever too small, but I really want to know what kind of impact $5 could really have on a person's life.
I thought about just taking the money and buying a bum a meal, but even then, that's one meal, for one day. I want this money to stretch as much as possible.
I've done some research, and 3for5 seems like the best option so far. Especially if I were to really campaign to get people to form a "wave" as they put it.
But I have until next week to do this, and I would like to know that this small budget did as much as it could, so please, let me know what you think would be the best way to impact the world with just $5.
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You can buy a five dollar footlong and give it to two people i guess.
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Russian Federation112 Posts
I don't know why but that kind of corporate management terrify me 
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I dont mean to be negative but you dont impact anything or anyone with a 5$ commitment. All you do is provide a temporary band-aid, if even.
Send it oversea and see all your money get lost/wasted as administration fees. Spend it locally and your bum will only spend it on booze or cigarettes. Your best bet is buying food and giving it to some kind of local charity or shelter, altough its a laughable amount they will gladly take it since they are barely getting by as it is.
CEO's are as useless as a third niple, or any niple on a man...
Edit: I guess you can spend it on flyers to give out to people in order to raise awareness or money toward some sort of charity but it seems hypocritical for an "apparently" successful company to commit only 5$ to such kind of donation.
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Northern Ireland27220 Posts
A month of membership for Grubby's stream.
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Buy a book, grow vegetables, plant a tree.
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Sometimes band-aids stop infections and prevent death aerogear.
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Buy something pretty and give it to a plain looking girl.
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Northern Ireland27220 Posts
On August 01 2013 07:41 Kickboxer wrote:
Buy something pretty and give it to a plain looking girl.
Buy something plain and give it a pretty looking girl. Defy societal conventions!
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buy tons of lollies and give it to children.
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2nd Worst City in CA8938 Posts
+ Show Spoiler +On August 01 2013 07:16 Kleander wrote:
I'll start this off by saying that I work in a very strange company. Our CEO has a very clear vision that culture inside the company is the most important variable that drives our business to success. This culture takes on a plethora of different challenges, and one of them is something called "Change the World" wherein, you guessed it, my company is trying to literally change the world. One good deed at a time.
The amount of positive reinforcement is phenomenal at my work, and it shows. We've received numerous awards for "Best place to work in San Diego" and we're now on a campaign to try and branch out to other people, and other companies to not only network for our company, but to attempt to make the world a better place.
So people were selected at random to perform an act of kindness with a budget (this budget was provided by the company). I received $5 as my budget, and I know that doesn't seem like a lot, because it definitely didn't seem like a lot to me, but I thought about it: People in under developed countries could be helped immensely by donations such as this. I know it's cliche that NO donation is ever too small, but I really want to know what kind of impact $5 could really have on a person's life.
I thought about just taking the money and buying a bum a meal, but even then, that's one meal, for one day. I want this money to stretch as much as possible.
I've done some research, and 3for5 seems like the best option so far. Especially if I were to really campaign to get people to form a "wave" as they put it.
But I have until next week to do this, and I would like to know that this small budget did as much as it could, so please, let me know what you think would be the best way to impact the world with just $5.
Where do you work? I live in San Diego and I must agree with your CEO about culture within a company. 
Spend that $5 on gas and go out and volunteer for something worthwhile.
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Go to Tim Horton's and buy the next next 5 people coffees. That's apparently the big craze up here right now.
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Since you have until next week, go to the casino, play whatever you think will give you the best odds and make the most out of it. And if you come out losing, then just take out $5 from your own pocket.
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On August 01 2013 07:40 Alabasern wrote:
Buy a book, grow vegetables, plant a tree.
I like the idea of planting something. If you plant something (or a few somethings) that are cheap to grow and give a lot of good seed after they flower in a few cycles you could give out a ton of free food or flowers to people you think need it. No immediate benefit, but over the course of a few seasons the impact could be massive.
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Children is my thought. Find some orphan shelter or something, arrange some sort of event, where you buy prizes for the kids with the 5 bucks. Sure, it'll cost you a lot of time, but I think that'd give a lot of fun for that meager ammount of money.
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Go buy yourself lunch, you will have accomplished the same thing. Unless you need a $5 tax write off then in that case go to a charity, get a receipt and call it a day.
I used to be quite charitable, then I grew up and saw how much abuse there is in the system by the charities and those getting it. Never Again. Enough of my paycheck already gets stolen by the state and federal government to pay for worthless people to stay home doing drugs and pumping out kids as it stands.
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Northern Ireland27220 Posts
On August 01 2013 07:50 Dekoth wrote:
Go buy yourself lunch, you will have accomplished the same thing. Unless you need a $5 tax write off then in that case go to a charity, get a receipt and call it a day.
I used to be quite charitable, then I grew up and saw how much abuse there is in the system by the charities and those getting it. Never Again. Enough of my paycheck already gets stolen by the state and federal government to pay for worthless people to stay home doing drugs and pumping out kids as it stands.
Oh dear.
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Given your budget, you have two options :
buy a candle in a church
buy a lottery ticket
5$... -_- I love your CEO
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The answer is pretty clear. What's the most important thing that costs money? Food (understood as food you need to not starve, not to get morbidly obese on your couch).
So you find out how you can get the most mileage from your $5 in terms of the most important thing you can buy with money, food.
Your intuitions about helping the bum were correct.
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