Almsgiving (n.) needs the poor visible, and pays best to whoever is best at being seen.
Almsgiving (n.) buys the giver a feeling and the taker an afternoon.
Almsgiving (n.) is a blessing — He who gives to the poor, lends to the Lord.
Almsgiving (n.) is profit-making — giving much to the poor, doth enrich a man's store.
Donor-advised fund (n.) is how the rich give to charity without the charity noticing yet.
Donor-advised fund (n.) is philanthropy's layaway plan, paid in reverse.
Donor-advised fund (n.) is a tax break with a halo and no deadline.
Donor-advised fund (n.) is the waiting room where generosity sits until the giver feels like giving.
The Humane society (n.) asks strangers to love what someone else abandoned.
Philanthropy (n.) is sometimes just unselfconscious gratitude for a good digestion.
Philanthropy (n.) is the residue Christianity left when its dogmas retreated: the more freethinkers liberated themselves from dogma, the more they justified it by outdoing Christian love — Comte's 'live for others' out-christianed Christianity.
Philanthropy (n.) ends where we have declared someone an idiot — and he annoys us by proving he is not.
Philanthropy (n.) is stealing the hog, and giving the feet for alms.