The Salvation Army, USA, has raised more funds annually than any other charity for eight consecutive years. In the year ending September 1999 it raised $1,402 million, the highest amount of money it has ever raised. Founded in the UK in 1865, the Salvation Army has expanded globally, with the US branch raising the highest funds. Today, new programs addressing contemporary needs have been established, such as disaster relief services, day care centers, summer camps, holiday assistance, services for senior citizens, hospitals and medical facilities, shelters for battered wives and children, family and career counseling, vocational training, and drug rehabilitation.
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Terry Fox (1958–81) of Canada ran (with an artificial leg) from St John's, Newfoundland, to Thunder Bay, Ontario, in 143 days from April 12 to September 2, 1980. He covered 5,373 km (3,339 miles) and raised Can$24.7 million (US$20.7 million, £9.1 million) for charity.
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$6 billion (£4.2 billion): the amount that Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, and his wife Melinda donated to their charitable foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, in August 1999. This is the largest single private charitable donation ever.
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Alms: clothing, food or money that is given to poor people:
In the past, people thought it was their religious duty to give alms to the poor.
Source: Cambridge Dictionaries Online
Charity by Waking Ashland
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Faith, Hope and Charity is an of Oh, pray that I find each
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The Greatest of these is Charity by Emily Henrietta Hickey
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Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door. (Charles Dickens)
CHARITY, n. a thing that begins at home and usually stays there. (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary)
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. (Phillips Brooks)
Anticipate charity by preventing poverty. (Maimonides, Jewish philosopher)
Charity creates a multitude of sins. (Oscar Wilde)
Charity is no substitute for justice withheld. (Saint Augustine)
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Most Lucrative Charity Sporting Event
The London Marathon, run annually through the streets of London, UK, since 1981, raises more money for charity than any other single sporting event in the world. £24 million ($35.8 million) was raised on April 16, 2000, the last year for which figures were calculated.
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The doorway to charity is difficult to open and difficult to close.(Chinese)
Charity looks at the need and not at the cause. (German)
Go to friends for advice; to women for pity; to strangers for charity; to relatives for nothing. (Spanish)
If charity cost nothing and benevolence caused no heartache, the world would be full of philanthropists. (Yiddish)
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