Foundation Beyond Belief (Official)
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Foundation Beyond Belief is a charitable and educational foundation created to focus, encourage and demonstrate humanistic generosity and to support nontheistic parent education.
Website: http://www.foundationbeyondbelief.org
Members: 156
Latest Activity: Aug 27
Foundation Beyond Belief is a charitable and educational foundation created by and for atheists and humanists. The Foundation highlights ten charitable organizations per quarter in such categories as health, poverty, environment, education, human rights, and more.
Members join by signing up for a monthly automatic donation in the amount of their choice, then set up personal profiles to indicate how they would like their contribution distributed among the categories. Maybe you'd like to give 25 percent each to human rights, poverty, education, and the environment. We'll distribute it accordingly. By year's end, you will have helped support a dozen organizations in the areas you care most about.
Carefully selected for impact and efficiency, the beneficiaries may be founded on any worldview so long as they do not engage in direct promotion or proselytizing of that worldview. At the end of each quarter, 100 percent of the donations will be forwarded and a new slate of beneficiaries selected.
The centerpiece of the Foundation is a lively online community. Active members can join discussions centered on the ten categories of giving, advocate for causes, and help us choose the new beneficiaries each quarter. We also host a multi-author blog of world-class contributors focused on the cause areas, as well as humanism, philanthropy, and the intersection of the two.
On the educational side, the Foundation is building a comprehensive secular parenting education and support program. We plan to have 10-20 people facilitating communities for nontheistic parents in cities across the US within a year and to expand to other countries in 2011.
On January 1, we launched the full site, including the ten featured causes and the means for members to select and change their preferred distributions. We will shortly launch the social network and the first stage of our parenting program.
We're making no little plans here, and there's the potential to do something pretty earthshaking. But this is a community thing, or it's nothing. We'll need your help. Now that the website is live, we've begun creating a powerful presence for atheists and humanists in the world of philanthropy. Join us!
Dale McGowan, Executive Director
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Help us build a world-class blog 14 Replies
Beginning 01/01/10 with the launch of our full website, the Foundation will host a multi-author invitational blog centered on big issues in philanthropy and humanism. If you know an atheist/humanist…
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Started by Dale McGowan. Last reply by Dale McGowan May 6.
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Comment by Claire on July 30, 2010 at 2:32pm -
Become a Foundation member...for free! We have dropped the $9 a year membership fee. For the first sixth months of our operation, this fee provided a small, reliable income stream to see us through the early days. Those of you who joined under that system helped provide that extra support we needed, and we thank you.
But now we've now decided to drop the membership fee entirely. New members can now sign up for our charitable giving program with no additional fee.
We still have operational costs, of course, but it's now entirely up to each member whether to contribute to the running of the Foundation. We hope this organization is valuable enough for members to designate a small percentage of their monthly donation to the care and feeding of the Foundation itself.
Sign up! https://foundationbeyondbelief.org/products
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Comment by Claire on July 2, 2010 at 2:57pm
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The third quarter is upon us! In the second quarter our wonderful members raised over $21,000 - twice what was raised in the first quarter! - for our beneficiaries. Let's see if we can double our numbers again for this quarter and raise over $42,000! Check out the line up of beneficiaries for our third quarter:
Animal Protection: Suncoast Seabird Sanctuary
"Big Bang": Camp Quest
Child Welfare: Gift of Adoption Fund
Education: Uganda Humanist Schools Trust
Environment: Energy Action Coalition
Health: National Association of Free Clinics
Human Rights: Compassion and Choices
Peace: Quaker Peace and Social Witness
Poverty: The Mountain Fund
To learn more about our current beneficiaries go to: http://foundationbeyondbelief.org/current_beneficiaries
And if you're on Facebook don't forget to "Like" our Facebook Page to keep up to date with all the Foundation happenings and news about our beneficiaries!
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Comment by Claire on June 12, 2010 at 9:38am
- We've hit a milestone! We now have over 500 Foundation Beyond Belief members who have raised over $30,000!
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Comment by Claire on May 27, 2010 at 1:53pm
- Want to help spread the word about the Foundation Beyond Belief? Now there are cool FBB badges and banners that you can add to your website! Check it out: http://foundationbeyondbelief.org/node/366
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Comment by James Croft on May 9, 2010 at 10:39am - The momentum here is exceptional, Dale! Do you need anyone to help out with your educational work? It is my field after all...
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Comment by cognitive dissident on April 6, 2010 at 12:11pm
- It's a subscriber-only article...is there any chance that they would let you post the text here?
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Comment by Dale McGowan on April 6, 2010 at 9:24am - Another Foundation article, this time in the Chronicle of Philanthropy: http://philanthropy.com/article/A-New-Group-Seeks-to-Organize/64917/
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Comment by Louis Doench on April 5, 2010 at 7:11am - @Dale... Yeah, That's Hemant's job!!!
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Comment by Ute Mitchell on April 4, 2010 at 9:25pm - Well, Dale, you are just darn nice. ;-)
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Comment by Dale McGowan on April 4, 2010 at 8:50pm
- @Louis: It just seems inevitable, and it frustrates me to be set up as a "nice guy" foil to Dawkins et al, over and over. He asked that question in the interview, and I specifically rejected the dichotomy. But that narrative is apparently too attractive to resist.
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