caritas

Working in animal shelters, or as you mentioned red cross / caritas could offer such opportunities.

If you're financing something for self-serving reasons, then by definition, you aren't being charitable (caritas).

Catholic tradition defines God as the source of caritas also known as agape.

In fact, my first computer was bought by my parents with Caritas money.

Well, I am sure Caritas Internationalis is there helping.

The virtue ethicist would say that one should inculcate the virtue of caritas (love) which will enable them to approach any task with a positive attitude, such that something that would otherwise be annoying to do becomes meaningful or at least tolerable with a long-term goal of increasing the love of the other for whom you do the task for.

For example I vehemently disagree with most protestants on the issue of capitalism which they consider compatible with the teachings of the biblical Jesus, and I while I agree with many catholics on this same issue I disagree with church mediated caritas as the social solution.

Catholic doctrine on the issue sounds pretty close to Bob's - see Rerum Novarum [1], Quadragesimo Anno [2], Populorum Progressio [3], Centesimus Annus [4], Caritas in Veritate [5], and Fratelli Tutti [6] for various expressions of the doctrine over the modern era.

Catholic Charities USA is a federation of various US-based Catholic charitable organizations (and is itself a member of a similar global organization, Caritas Internationalis), but it is not the same thing as the Catholic Church, nor even the same thing as the charitable activity of the Catholic Church, nor even the same thing as the charitable activity of the Catholic Church in the USA.

But charity, from the Latin caritas, is an act of perfect love for the other in which we act for the good of the other, not as a means for our own enrichment (though we are enriched spiritually by it), not for the sake of domination and control, but for the good of the other.

I dumped lots of books because I couldn't find a buyer on the used market (handling would far exceed the value of the books, some companies buy used books only based on weight and condition) and even libraries and social services like the Caritas declined to take used books.

>The long and short: In 2010, private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management purchased Caritas Christi Health Care, a struggling eastern Massachusetts hospital system, from the Archdiocese of Boston, converting it from non-profit to for-profit and rebranding it as Steward Health Care.

Just to show how language affects understanding, the word "charity" comes from the Latin caritas meaning something from the heart.

Apage, which in Latin is caritas from which we get “charity”, is descending love, or a willing of the good of the other.

I've seen him." He says that Majorana was in Rome with a priest Luigi Di Liegro, founder of Roman Caritas (a catolic institution to help poor people).

In classical texts, this is called the ordo amoris or "order of love" (in the older, more technically accurate terminology, order of charity, where "charity" - from caritas - means willing the good of the other).

Caritas embodies benevolence, antithetical to the ruthless shouts of traders on an exchange floor.

How much did you give these redundancies to the poor, to Caritas?

Caritas has very little overhead because they work with voluntaries (mostly).