JUDY VALENTE, correspondent: The list of charities seeking donations can seem endless. There are organizations that fight hunger, provide free medical care for children with cancer, or build houses ...

This transcript tells the story of Memphis doctors who care for those without health insurance. Definition: Altruism is a willingness to give something of oneself in order to help others. In altruism ...

Episode 67: The philosophical and social movement called effective altruism has received lots of attention over the past month after the collapse of the user-friendly crypto exchange FTX. The founder ...

SpaceX founder Elon Musk speaks during a T-Mobile and SpaceX joint event on Aug. 25, 2022, in Texas. Michael Gonzalez/Getty Images One of the ways tech billionaire Elon Musk attracts supporters is the ...

Effective altruism has many enemies, and while there are certainly philosophical arguments against it, much of the opposition is not intellectual but visceral. At its core, effective altruism suggests ...

This quarter, I enrolled in two ethics classes: one on effective altruism and the other about ethical questions “on the edge,” particularly those pertaining to technological advances and modern social ...

I remember sitting at a college convocation speech in 1980 while a student at Brown University when the distinquished speaker focused his talk on the transition from the 1970s to the 1980s. He said ...

This week, the One Laptop Per Child project, whose mission is to provide basic PCs for students in developing countries, announced a sad incentive for donations: if you donate $400 to the project, ...

Most people know the ethical thing to do, but when it's inexpedient, they may succumb to the temptations of money, power, or hooking-in the romantic partner they want. Most people act ethically when ...

Individual donors are a powerful driver in the nonprofit sector with their gifts accounting for almost 70% of all donations, for a total of $309 billion in 2019. By Joan Harrington, former director of ...

(The Conversation) — One of the ways tech billionaire Elon Musk attracts supporters is the vision he seems to have for the future: people driving fully autonomous electric vehicles, colonizing other ...