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Haiti earthquake relief resource guide

How Bostonians can get involved
As ever-more horrific dispatches from Haiti pour in, it's easy to be overwhelmed by the sheer magnitude of the carnage. But even though Haiti requires an almost incomprehensible amount of relief aid to merely staunch the bleeding, there are myriad opportunities for you to help -- and every shred of effort counts.
By PHOENIX STAFF | January 22, 2010

Give peace a chance

Yoko Ono on why John Lennon's art remains relevant
This year marks the 40th anniversary of John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Bed-In, which found the newlywed couple pontificating about peace from their Amsterdam honeymoon bed for a week. Decades later, the couple is still working together to promote social justice, with Ono publicizing exhibits of Lennon's playful, sometimes colorful, often childlike, works of art.
By DEIRDRE FULTON | August 26, 2009

Only the awesome need apply

Free Money Dept.
What if Eli and Edythe Broad, two important financial backers of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard in Cambridge, had gone batshit crazy back in the early '00s and decided to go in a different direction with their philanthropy?
By IAN SANDS | July 22, 2009

Our local heroes

Working behind the scenes
Working behind the scenes
By JOHNETTE RODRIGUEZ and DAVID SCHARFENBERG | April 15, 2009

Miles for meals

Marching on Empty Stomachs
Wiping out hunger in Massachusetts isn't quite as simple as mauling a fistful of cheese puffs and calling it a day.
By SARA FAITH ALTERMAN | April 13, 2009

3. Bernie Madoff

SCUMBAG MILLIONAIRE
It didn’t take much for New York magazine to Photoshop this sociopathic Arthur Ponz-arelli into the Joker — just a little lipstick. Of course, if he can sneak some makeup past a lazy-eyed guard, he can look real purty for his cellmates, who may find that Madoff’s bulging posterior is ripe for a bold stimulus package.
By Boston Phoenix Staff | March 25, 2009

Giving back

Going Green
What does it take to get young people to give money to environmental organizations?
By DEIRDRE FULTON | August 12, 2008

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A holiday sample-pack

Albums to pick up for all your friends and family
I always give local music at the holidays.
By SAM PFEIFLE | December 12, 2007

Give a goat for $150

Earth-friendly charities
The holiday season is traditionally a time of wonder and wastefulness.
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN | December 05, 2007

December 2, 2007

Sunday
Sunday
By SYMBOLINE DAI | November 28, 2007

Cutting off your taxes to spite Uncle Sam

W-4 Peace
Take Larry Dansinger, who lives in Monroe, and who has withheld some or all of his owed taxes for years in opposition to US military action and policy.
By DEIRDRE FULTON | October 31, 2007

Musicmaking 101

A local School of Rock; the ’Mericans; and more
This school is all about fun. Period.
By BOB GULLA | July 17, 2007

Son of a beach

Leave it to state minions to spoil a perfect summer day
The beach at Casa Diablo is closed.
By PHILLIPE AND JORGE | July 11, 2007

The Ultimate Gift

Pretty hoky stuff
Stingy are the rich, as we know from Ebenezer Scrooge and even Bill Gates before he became a crusading philanthropist.
By TOM MEEK | March 14, 2007

Peter Gammons's doubleheader

Hot Stove, Cool Music, the Paradise Rock Club, January 6 and 7, 2007
There’s no question that a close relationship has developed between Boston’s music scene and its baseball team .
By JIM SULLIVAN | January 10, 2007

Selling support

Charity work
It’s not eBay, but it might be better for the Earth.
By JEFF INGLIS | December 27, 2006

Mississippi blues

How a local Hurricane Katrina volunteer is changing the shape of relief work
Ever wonder what became of all the tax dollars and personal donations you sent to the Gulf Coast over the past year in the wake of Hurricane Katrina? Slideshow: Annie Card photographs the survivors and wreckage of Hurricane Katrina.
By NINA MACLAUGHLIN | August 29, 2006

Hot Stove Cool Music

Rock and rain at Fenway
It would be as unfair to call the second annual Hot Stove Cool Music benefit concert at Fenway Park a week ago last Wednesday a disaster as it would be to confirm that it was an unqualified success. Slideshow: Hot Stove Cool Music, July 12, 2006
By MATT ASHARE | July 14, 2006

Eastward ho!

Indian art expands at PEM; stone artists rock on at Garden in the Woods
Thanks to a $500,000 gift from two philanthropic organizations in Massachusetts’s Indian-American community, PEM has almost tripled its existing gallery space for Indian art, and it’s celebrating the occasion with "Of Gods and Mortals, Traditional Art from India."
By RANDI HOPKINS | July 07, 2006

The rich and the petty

Forbes whines, Buffett shines
As it happens, many of America’s wealthiest people, including Warren Buffett and co-philanthropist Bill Gates, want the US to keep the estate tax. But someone must stand up for the Paris Hiltons of this country.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | June 28, 2006

Seeing red

Center for Cultural Exchange’s books out of balance
The news that the CCE would sell its building just four months after vowing to remain in its Longfellow Square home is just the tip of the bad-news iceberg.
By JEFF INGLIS | June 15, 2006

June 4, 2006

Sunday
Waxing moon in Virgo, VOC 8:30 pm to 5:08 am Monday. Mercury moves into Cancer; Mars moves into Leo. When is the last time you did something nice for someone less fortunate (whom you didn’t know or didn’t like)? Today is super for charity, particularly for earth signs (Capricorn, Virgo, Taurus), who are getting a boost from Venus. This makes others like you a lot, in case it isn’t obvious.
By SYMBOLINE DAI | June 01, 2006

Boston Bakes for Breast Cancer

May 8-14, 2006
Philanthropy just got a little sweeter.
By TAMARA WIEDER | May 03, 2006

All about the G.O.D.

Letters to the Boston editor, March 17, 2006
Are you for real? People of color, and Johnny Cash, have been singing about the G.O.D. for a long-ass time (“ God Rocks ,” March 3).
By | March 15, 2006

Members of Catholic Charities

By | March 09, 2006

Not kidding

Catholic Charities depart from tradition
While the battle over same-sex marriage dominates the headlines in the ongoing struggle for gay-and-lesbian equality, many other battles are just as important, if not more so.
By MICHAEL BRONSKI | March 09, 2006