EPTHow much can I impact with 5 dollars? - Page 5
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Big-t
Austria1351 Posts
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sluggaslamoo
Australia4494 Posts
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Fumanchu
Canada669 Posts
After cleaning out five or six of these stands, proceed to your nearest orphanage or outreach program for kids. Provide them with your booty. Most programs won't have the extra bundle to fund six lemonade stands. And a single lemonade stand would only provide conflict given to the amount of children within these programs. Ergo, you will be a humongous boon to their organization. Oh yeah, and then afterwards use the five bucks to treat yourself to some strawberry milk, after all it's hot out right? | ||
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75
Germany4057 Posts
haha, wasnt thinking about that this way. | ||
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Gendo
United Kingdom216 Posts
So basically you donate to pay the guy who took your donation that then finds someone who does the rest of the job for free using the little money left after all that. You never know where the money actually goes sadly. | ||
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EngrishTeacher
Canada1109 Posts
I just came back from volunteering with a medical team of eye surgeons, and in just 3 days we performed 136 surgeries that restored vision for impoverished Tibetans. I should blog my trip. 5 bucks for the gift of sight... Can anyone top that? | ||
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Ricjames
Czech Republic1047 Posts
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Shottaz
United Kingdom414 Posts
You can measure social return using proxies, which are basically ways to monetise benefits which are often intangible. I'll use obesity as an example. If you could educate an obese person to improve their diet, an outside person may see the benefit as 'they get healthier' however this isnt something you can measure easily. When you break it down, there are lots of proxies which can be attached to this. Could live longer (can you put a price on life) Less health issues (average cost of yearly healtcare to support an obese person) No more health checks for obese related issues (average cost of a doctors visit at X per year) If they are now able to work (cost of benefits for one person for one year) If you could spend your five dollars producing an educational fact sheet for your company, guestimate the number of obese people, you could say that for every $5 you spend, you could provide X amount of social return. Obviously obesity is just one example, but maybe you could impress your company by looking into it this way. | ||
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dabom88
United States3483 Posts
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tokinho
United States792 Posts
Assess yourself every day honestly. Give the book to a stranger after 60 days. | ||
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Poffel
471 Posts
On August 01 2013 18:09 Gendo wrote: Every little helps for sure but consider that most charities will "absorb" a considerable amount of donations since they work pretty much as standard companies. So basically you donate to pay the guy who took your donation that then finds someone who does the rest of the job for free using the little money left after all that. You never know where the money actually goes sadly. That's not entirely true. Sadly, there are charity scams that give the whole concept of charity a bad name. On the other hand, however, the lion's share of charity organizations are very transparent when it comes to the question how they spend their budget, and although every organization will have to cover overheads, many are very efficient in their spending. Just as an example, Doctors without borders have 89% spending efficiency. That's a perfectly reasonable quota, and it's nothing out of the ordinary when it comes to well-established and well-managed charity organizations, which commonly achieve a spending efficiency around the 90% mark. | ||
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gingerfluffmuff
Austria4570 Posts
On August 01 2013 18:24 Shottaz wrote: Essentially your company are asking you to maximise the social return on your investment. I'm actually doing a piece of work at the moment for my parent company which is looking at social return. Through our analysis, the area which generate the largest social return are education and working with disadvantaged people. You can measure social return using proxies, which are basically ways to monetise benefits which are often intangible. I'll use obesity as an example. If you could educate an obese person to improve their diet, an outside person may see the benefit as 'they get healthier' however this isnt something you can measure easily. When you break it down, there are lots of proxies which can be attached to this. Could live longer (can you put a price on life) Less health issues (average cost of yearly healtcare to support an obese person) No more health checks for obese related issues (average cost of a doctors visit at X per year) If they are now able to work (cost of benefits for one person for one year) If you could spend your five dollars producing an educational fact sheet for your company, guestimate the number of obese people, you could say that for every $5 you spend, you could provide X amount of social return. Obviously obesity is just one example, but maybe you could impress your company by looking into it this way. Poor example, its better for the system if people die early. However if you use Quality of Live as a metric you are right. (Its a general problem in the healthcare sector when new models are developed to e.g: diagnose illnesses or tele medicine, cause its gonna cost the system big time) | ||
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gingerfluffmuff
Austria4570 Posts
On August 01 2013 18:15 EngrishTeacher wrote: 5 bucks is approximately the price of an artificial lens used to treat someone with cataract. I just came back from volunteering with a medical team of eye surgeons, and in just 3 days we performed 136 surgeries that restored vision for impoverished Tibetans. I should blog my trip. 5 bucks for the gift of sight... Can anyone top that? Well done mate. I guess not. | ||
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Confuse
2238 Posts
but since you only have one week i suppose performing some kind of show to raise money for charity involving magic tricks using things you can buy for less then 5 $ might be good. even if you dont know magic people will probably appreciate the effort? i have no idea, i have never been involved in charities. good luck dude | ||
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Holy_AT
Austria978 Posts
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 $5. If your CEO wanted to do something good he should spend away his millions of dollars in hedge funds. He should sell his Porsche and Mercedes and lead a plain lifestyle more in accordance with nature and its resources. All your boss does is some PR campaign an agenda to mask his real one and that is making money and more money. It is hypocrite. You want to help people in under developed countries ? Well you could also start helping people in the US, where some sleep under bridges, can't afford a doctor or live in slums. Go send your 5$ bill to the Major of Detroit. You don't have to go to Africa to see people suffering. Go spend it on some educational program in the US to bring rationalism and science to the bible belt. I bet there are enough programs or schools in the US who need funding. Sry, but I find the whole idea stupid. I mean if you donate money from your own money its one thing or when the company donates money to a project, but if the company gives you money to donate their goal is not donation ... Or you could take the 5 dollars and put it in a bank. Tell them to save it there for 2000 Years and compound interest will increase its worth making it worth approximately 150 times the earth in solid gold. Then tell them to use this money for charity and donations and you will have no one suffering from hunger, dying of treatable diseases and what not. You have saved the future you are a hero. | ||
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Shottaz
United Kingdom414 Posts
While I appreciate your response to my last post. To call mine a poor example and then applaud this one is rather odd. $5 buys you an artifical lens... $x for the flights to tibet $x for accomodation during the stay $x for the equipment needed to perform the operation $x for the cost of the medical staff It's not as simple as $5 dollars for the gift of sight. | ||
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magicmUnky
Australia280 Posts
don't waste your money on food | ||
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Ikidomari
Australia485 Posts
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Dreamer.T
United States3584 Posts
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FetTerBender
Germany1393 Posts
If the knife is cheaper, maybe a little cape with your companies logo is in the budget aswell? Your superhero sign could be: GG (as in Good Guy) sponsored by Your Company© //sarcasm I have to admit i do not believe in companies who "want to make the world a better place". Most companies want to earn money and have a good reputation. | ||
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