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  • This house believes that it is immoral for individuals who have met their basic needs to not donate any excess wealth to utility maximising causes.

    Cambridge IV 2018 · Novice Final · 2018-11-16

  • In areas of chronically low academic attainment, this house believes that the general approach of educational charities should be to focus resources on maximising the potential of exceptional students, over helping the lowest achieving.

    Cambridge IV 2018 · 3 · 2018-11-16

  • Developing countries should ban the entry of charitable organizations that tie aid or services to religious conversion.

    Jewell Debate Tournament · 4 · 2018-09-14

  • This house would rank all charities based on their effectiveness and give tax breaks accordingly.

    9th United Asian Debating Championship 2018 · 7 · 2018-05-28

  • This house supports the commercialization of charitable causes (i.e. rise of social enterprises as a way of solving social problems establishment of for-profit microfinance institutions etc)

    Infoslide

    A social enterprise is an organization that applies commercial strategies to maximize improvements in financial social and environmental well-being. this may include maximizing social impact alongside profits for external shareholders. Microfinance refers to the provision of microloans to poor entrepreneurs and small businesses which lack access to banking and related services. Such services usually charge interests on borrowers but require no collateral.

    Taiwan Debate Open 2018 · Open Quarters · 2018-05-24

  • That charities should not host events that require participants to emulate the experiences of those for whom they are raising money (eg. 40 Hour Famine CEO Sleep Out Live Below the Line)

    Infoslide

    Doxxing is the practice of publicly exposing an individual’s personal details and/or details of their behaviour.

    Sydney Easters 2018 · 5 · 2018-04-02

  • You are a humanitarian charity operating in a conflict-zone and have been instructed that to remain working in the country you must provide 50% of your donations to the government or else all access to the country will be forcibly cut off. this house would remain in the conflict-zone.

    NZ Easters 2018 · Open Semis · 2018-03-31

  • This house as a philanthropist would prefer to donate to NGOs instead of government agencies and departments

    Asian Schools Debating Championships 2018 · Open Final · 2018-03-03

  • That we support the rise of effective altruism.

    Infoslide

    Effective Altruism is a philosophy and social movement that aspires to 'most effectively' benefit others by comparing the benefit of one action to the counterfactual benefit of another action. For example an effective altruist would argue that working for a charity is less beneficial than working in a high earning profession and donating a portion of those earnings to charity. In particular effective altruists follow a utilitarian metric in their charitable endeavours.

    Sydney Grandslam 2018 · Open Final · 2018-01-07

  • This house would require all sold products to clearly display their price in Dead Children Currency.

    Infoslide

    For the purposes of this debate, saving the life of a child via charity costs approximately 1000$. A “Dead Children Currency” is the cost of an item, translated into the number of children that could be saved from death using that amount of money. Thus, a brand new sedan might cost about 28 dead children, a meal at a nice restaurant might cost about 2 dead child cents, and a 320,000$ luxury doghouse costs about 320 dead children.

    Oxford IV 2017 · Novice Final · 2017-11-10

  • As a conscientious donor this house would prioritize efficiency over social need when deciding which charity to donate to.

    NTU Pro-Ams 2015 · Open Semis · 2017-09-25

  • That anti-theists should donate to and actively support progressive and/or liberal churches.

    UQ Australs 2017 · 7 · 2017-07-01

  • This house believes that the state should redistribute all donations to charities according to an evidence-based assessment of their utility.

    SIDO 2017 · Open Octos · 2017-04-14

  • This house would prevent wealthy individuals from being able to write off charity as tax-deductible.

    KL Open Challenge · Open Quarters · 2017-03-12

  • This house, as the Catholic church, would sell its cultural artifacts in order to fund poverty alleviation

    cornell novice nationals and tournament of love · Open Semis · 2017-02-11

  • This house believes that the state should take away a certain proportion of all charitable giving and redistribute it to other charities on the basis of their effectiveness.

    Ryoso Cup 2016 · Open Quarters · 2016-12-17