Humanist Monthly Program: Save Lives Using Reason and Compassion

Save lives using reason and compassion by attending today's event! For every participant, $10 will be donated to a charity, and best of all, it's free for you - the donations will be sponsored by an external party.

What we will be doing is a Giving Game. In this event, participants get to talk about their personal motivations for donating to charity, consider what methods we should use to select a charity, and what metrics are most valuable for evaluating the impact of a charity.

We will then vote on four charities to give a donation:

1. Choices for Domestic Violence, http://choicescolumbus.org/ , an organization that helps victims of domestic abuse in Central Ohio

2. GiveDirectly, http://givedirectly.org/ , an organization that transfers cash directly to poor people in Kenya and Uganda.

3. Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Ohio, http://www.bbbscolumbus.org/ , an organization that provides volunteer mentoring to youth in Central Ohio.

4. Against Malaria Foundation, https://www.againstmalaria.com/ , an organization that combats malaria through distributing bed nets

For every participant, $10 will be donated to one of these two charities, so your participation will literally be contributing to saving the lives of people either in Columbus area or in Africa. Hope you join us and help save lives using reason and compassion!

Dr. Gleb Tsipursky, a long-time HCCO member and winner of its APEX award, is an activist for reason and science popularizer. He runs a nonprofit that helps people reach their goals using science to build an altruistic and flourishing world, Intentional Insights. He authored Find Your Purpose Using Science and other books. He regularly published in prominent venues such as TIME, The Huffington Post, Psychology Today, Lifehack, Salon, The Plain Dealer, and elsewhere; reason-oriented venues such as Patheos, Skeptical Inquirer, American Atheist Magazine, Essays in the Philosophy of Humanism, The Human Prospect, Religious Humanism, Secular World, etc.; and peer-reviewed academic venues. He serves as a tenure-track professor at Ohio State. Email: gleb@intentionalinsights.org

Join us at 11:30 for pizza in the meeting room! The formal program starts at 12:00.