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Teach for America
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Harlem Children's Zone Project
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Ashoka
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VolunteerMatch
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Six million children—and even more adults—die unnecessarily every year. Good people all over the world are doing their best to save them. You can too
In Case of Emergency...
While his New Orleans emergency room took on water, a doctor set up a refuge elsewhere for about 50 critically ill Katrina patients
The Voice of Compassion
Offstage, opera legend Placido Domingo is a one-man charity band
A Shoe That Fits So Many Souls
For each pair of Toms sold, the company gives one away to a child in need
Certain Charity
Former lawyer Cameron Gray gets food to the poor and personally documents delivery for the donors
The Good Samaritans
Melinda Gates, Bono and Bill Gates: three people on a global mission to end poverty, disease—and indifference
Dynamic Duo
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Here's What You Do
Four leaders whose communities were devastated by natural disasters share their experiences and counsel with their counterparts on the Gulf Coast
Exceptional Healing
Pediatrician Leena Kaartinen has made a career of helping people in dangerous locales
Secret Sharers
A duty-free-shopping mogul gave away more than $2 billion to educational and human-rights causes over almost two decades—all of it anonymously
Learning the Art of Giving
How a Bangalore-based social activist and journalist became a self-taught philanthropist, building two foundations from the ground up
It's Raining Pencils
A rookie teacher in New York City has created an online charity that allows donors to search teacher requests and fund the projects they like best
Run for their lives
Serge and nicole roetheli traveled around the world enduring snakebites and toothache — all for charity
Givers Who Mean Business
It's being called "private equity for the poor" and "a market-based approach to giving"—the Acumen Fund is a nonprofit that helps entrepreneurs in developing countries build businesses
To the Rescue
A businessman turned professional samaritan risks his life to save victims of terror and tragedy
The Voice of Compassion
October 10, 2005 When Placido Domingo arrived in Biloxi, Mississippi, for a concert in April, he had to fight his way through the driving rain. "I never saw so much rain in my life," the 64-year-old tenor told a press conference. He was in town to sing with the young musicians of the University of Southern Mississippi Symphony Orchestra. Not many months after Domingo left, the region saw a lot more rain. When Hurricane Katrina hit America's Gulf region in August, the worried tenor tried to contact the orchestra to make sure that they were O.K.—and he's still trying. "I'm trying to see if they need housing, or anything else to help them," the tenor told Time.
It's a regular gig for Domingo, whose amazingly rich voice still thrills opera lovers. In October alone, he'll perform four operatic roles in three countries, as well as conducting; he also runs the Los Angeles and Washington opera companies. Yet Domingo pours a lot of time and money into helping others, too. It all started "after I sang in a benefit after the 1985 earthquake in Mexico, and I received so many letters from people saying it made them feel better," he says.
Since then, Domingo has raised millions of dollars for SOS Children's Villages in Mexico, which provides a stable environment for children who have lost their parents or been abused; for Frankfurt's Albert Griesinger School for disabled children; and for victims of the devastating 1997 mudslides in Acapulco, as well as other charities. "To start with, I was just happy to sing," Domingo says. "But I later realized music can comfort the soul, that audience members can be together and forget their problems and differences."
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