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"Yes, children are starving and puppies are dying, and you should probably support these causes", writes Allison Schrager. "But better to support a great museum than my local pub" ...

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ALLISON SCHRAGER | THE MICROPHILANTHROPIST | May 24th 2008

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Smarting from a reader's complaint that she lacked a sense of community, Allison Schrager goes hunting for useful ways to donate her time. Maybe there's something to this whole volunteer-work thing after all?

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ALLISON SCHRAGER | THE MICROPHILANTHROPIST | February 8th 2008

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How should we help people in troubled developing countries? And how do we do this while staying comfortably at home? So much aid is paternalistic and ineffective. Allison Schrager considers better alternatives ...

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