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  • This house prefers charities to offer microfinancial services as opposed to unconditional cash handouts and provisions.

    Infoslide

    Microfinance refers to the financial services provided to low-income individuals or groups typically excluded from traditional banking. Most microfinance institutions focus on offering credit in the form of small working capital loans, sometimes called microloans or microcredit.

    HKDC 2023 · High School Pre-Grand Finals · 2023-03-25

  • This house regrets the narrative that professionals working for nonprofits perform a public service" or "sacrifice.""

    Infoslide

    Performative radicalism" refers to a type of political engagement that focuses on publicly sharing and displaying one's political beliefs or stances to create a court of public opinion rather than directly influencing policy change."

    HKDC 2023 · 1 · 2023-03-25

  • As a charity successfully making the world a better place, This house would reject donations from immoral actors

    Debate Association Debating Championship 2023 · Gold Semifinals · 2023-01-28

  • This house believes that the environmental movement should actively oppose climate change prizes

    Infoslide

    Climate change prizes are awards and monetary grants funded by rich private donors like the Elon musk foundation, Bloomberg, Jack ma foundation and other rich charitable organizations. An example of this award is the Earthshot prize and virgin earth prize. The prize is given to innovations that has the highest impact in resolving climate change . Any organization and individual can participate.

    Baguio Intervarsity 2023 · Round 4 · 2023-01-01

  • This house believes that the governments of functional democracies should set up appointed boards to assess the efficacy of charitable organizations, and remove the tax-exempt status of charities determined to be of low social value

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    Pro Am Parliamentary Debates · Novice Semifinal · 2022-11-05

  • This house believes that the governments of functional democracies should set up appointed boards to assess the efficacy of charitable organizations, and remove the tax-exempt status of charities determined to be of low social value

    Infoslide

    N/A

    Pro Am Parliamentary Debates · Schools Final · 2022-11-05

  • This house believes that the governments of functional democracies should set up appointed boards to assess the efficacy of charitable organizations, and remove the tax-exempt status of charities determined to be of low social value

    Infoslide

    N/A

    Pro Am Parliamentary Debates · Novice Final · 2022-11-05

  • This house believes that the governments of functional democracies should set up appointed boards to assess the efficacy of charitable organizations, and remove the tax-exempt status of charities determined to be of low social value

    Infoslide

    N/A

    Pro Am Parliamentary Debates · Semifinals · 2022-11-05

  • Dewan ini menyesalkan narasi dominan sedekah adalah hal yang altruis

    Infoslide

    Altruisme adalah sikap atau naluri untuk memperhatikan dan mengutamakan kepentingan orang lain. Seseorang yang melakukan altruisme disebut sebagai altruis

    IDN Pra-KDMI 2022 · Round 2 · 2022-06-29

  • This house, as a talented altruistically-minded graduate, would follow the 80,000 Hours approach to their professional career rather than joining an altruistic organisation

    Infoslide

    80,000 Hours approach refers to people choosing to work in highly paid jobs to be able to maximize their donations to charitable causes.

    Vienna IV 2022 · Pro Am Final · 2022-05-13

  • This house regrets the trend of influencers posting videos on social media of themselves doing charitable acts for vulnerable or disadvantaged people.

    Joynt Scroll 2022 · Round 4 · 2022-04-15

  • As a charity successfully making the world better, this house would reject donations from immoral actors.

    HWS RR 2022 · Round 1 · 2022-04-01

  • This house prefers a world where NGOs and charities predominantly provide social welfare where individuals donate an equivalent amount to NGOs and charities instead of paying welfare taxes to the state.

    Neko Championship 2022 · Open Final · 2022-03-23

  • That in economically disadvantaged areas education charities should prioritise giving resources to students who have a greater potential to succeed as opposed to equalising resources to everyone

    Advanced Premier 2022 · Round 3 · 2022-03-02

  • This house no longer believes in helping others

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    N/A

    28th Lithuanian Schools Debating Championships 2021-2022 · Semifinals · 2022-01-01

  • That celebrities should not act as spokespeople for humanitarian issues.

    Senior Premier 2022 · Semifinals · 2022-01-01

  • That we prefer a world where all charity was administered by one organization

    Infoslide

    "Prefer" motions require teams to argue retrospectively and justify why their world is better than the oppositions. That is, the affirmative team needs to explain what is likely to have happened in the case charity was centralized from the start - they cannot choose which causes the money would have gone to. Negative can challenge how the world would have ended up under affirmative.

    Senior Premier 2022 · Round 3 · 2022-01-01

  • This Parliament will keep the names of all the people who donate to the charity anonymous

    যুক্তিতে মিলবে মুক্তি · Open Quarters · 2021-12-22

  • This house would implement the 'Ubuntu Award'.

    Infoslide

    A new international accolade is proposed by the governments of the world called the 'Ubuntu Award'. Every year on the 31st of December the wealthiest person alive is declared the 'Winner of Capitalism'. They get a badge that says 'good job' and then all of their wealth is donated to various charitable causes.

    South African National Schools' Senior Debating Championship 2021 · Open Final · 2021-12-19

  • This house supports the professionalisation of not-for-profit organisations

    Infoslide

    Professionalisation of not-for-profit organizations refers to a shift toward more structured ways of working, bureaucratic processes and contractual donations. Some argue that this takes away from the voluntary nature of the sector, despite its supposed efficiency.

    AUDP Parliamentary Debate · 3 · 2021-11-20