Charity

Charity may refer to:

Concepts and practices

• Charity (practice), the practice of benevolent giving and caring
• Charity (virtue), the Christian theological concept of unlimited love and kindness
• Principle of charity in philosophy and rhetoric
• Tzedakah, a Hebrew concept, literally meaning righteousness (Genesis 18:19) but commonly used to signify charity, and giving to worthy causes or people in need
• Zakah and Sadaqah, the Islamic concepts of mandatory and voluntary alms-giving, often translated as "charity"
• Altruism
• Alms
• Charity (reda),

Organizations

• Charitable organization, a type of non-profit organization formed for charitable purposes
  • 501(c)(3), a specific section of the United States Internal Revenue Code that allows qualifying charitable organizations exemption from federal income tax

Places

• Charity, Guyana, a small town
• Charity Island (disambiguation)
• Mount Charity

Entertainment

• Charity (play), a 1874 play by W. S. Gilbert
• "Charity" (song), a 1995 single by Skunk Anansie
• Charity (horse) (1830–?), famed racehorse
• Charity Shea (born 1983), actress in the TV series The Best Years
• Charity Bazaar, a character from Histeria!
• An alternate title for the "Episode Five" of the second series of The Office

Other

• Charity (name), a given name
• Charity (programming language), a computer programming language
• HMS Charity (R29), a British Royal Navy destroyer-class ship
• MV Charity, a Cypriot cargo ship briefly in service during September 1972
• Charity (novel), third in the Faith, Hope, Charity espionage trilogy of novels by Len Deighton