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Give a Kid a ToyGraduates of the People’s Emergency Center’s program to help the homeless have a 90 percent success rate when it comes to […]

Disaster stories have become as much a part of the holidays as gifts and eggnog. So why do we keep putting ourselves through all the grief?

Disaster stories have become as much a part of the holidays as gifts and eggnog. Why do we keep putting ourselves through all the grief? […]

Let’s say you have $50 million and want to give it away. Would you give it to an arts group on Broad Street? Homeless people on Chestnut Street? The sick and starving in Africa? Okay, but wait: Wouldn’t it be more effective to give it to Penn, to help educate the best and brightest of the next generation? Is this harder than you thought?

Let’s say you have $50 million and want to give it away. Who would you give it to? “To give away money is an easy […]

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