This charity uses second hand clothes to challenge rampant consumerism

One More Wear Foundation is a charity focused on distributing clothing to youth and young adults who are struggling with poverty in the Greater Toronto Area. The charity is surrounded by the ideology that having accessible clothing can provide employment…

Top 10 animal charities to donate to

BY RHIANN MOORE It can be difficult to sift through all the information online and find out which charities are using your money the right way. That’s why we’ve put together a handy list of 10 amazing animal charities that will use…

The Neotropical Primate Conservation Peru is saving monkeys and their habitats

BY RHIANN MOORE If you’re looking for an animal charity to support, look no further. The Neotropical Primate Conservation in Peru is dedicated to protecting monkeys and the forests they inhabit from hunters. They do this through land protection, research,…

Paris is spreading the love by selling their old love locks to raise money for refugees

BY: SAMANTHA TAPP The City of Love has found a new way to spread the love. The famous trend of attaching locks to bridges in Paris has been a symbol of love for citizens and tourists since 2008. Last year,…

This outdoor retailer is donating 100% of its Black Friday sales to grassroots environmental groups

BY: JESSICA BEUKER  Ahh Black Friday; a day where Americans bludgeon the shit out of strangers for a discount on a flat screen, less than 24 hours after they give thanks for everything they have. For years Black Friday has been regarded…

UK’s largest supermarket chain “Tesco” vows to give away all left over food to empty stomachs

BY: ZOE MELNYK Following close in France’s footsteps, the largest UK grocery store chain, Tesco, recently decided to donate any edible leftover food to charity instead of throwing it away to rot in a landfill. The decision came from the…

Man breaks record for largest Christmas lights display in the name of altruism

BY: SINEAD MULHERN It’s like a scene straight out of Dr. Seuss’s Whoville. A man named David Richards has created a Christmas light display so big it could rival Martha May Whovier’s. It’s also broken a Guinness World Record. The…

Not all charities are created equal

BY SARAH HOWELL There is an unspoken assumption that charities will give away most of their profit. Between fundraisers, worker salaries, fees, and advertising, the true question stands: How much profit is left to support the suffering people who need…

Are you actually helping Africa?

BY: DAVID PATON  In 1899 Rudyard Kipling, the likeable and well-meaning British author of The Jungle Book, penned a poem he entitled The White Man’s Burden. It was a love poem to colonialism, painting the world as it was –…