By Carol Loomis, Fortune
Doris Buffett, 85, wants to teach young people how best to contribute to charity. Giving With Purpose, a six-week online course, is a family affair. The name Buffett is in the news, but the first name is Doris, not Warren. His older sister by three years — that makes her 85, him 82 — she is pursuing a decade-long interest by sponsoring a new, free, online course about philanthropy. The goal of the program, called Giving With Purpose is to teach college students — and anyone else who cares to register — how to beneficially contribute to charity. That’s not necessarily easy. There are IRS rules for giving that must be learned, and there is wayward, wasteful philanthropy to be avoided. But for registrants who apply themselves well in this new course, the prize at the end is real Buffett money to give away.
http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2013/06/25/doris-buffett-philanthropy/?source=cnn_bin
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