Niveau 1 (le plus bas): Agir a contre-coeur
Donner a contre-coeur

Niveau 2 La proportion
Donner moins au pauvres que ce qui est juste, et de le faire avec joie

Niveau 3 La solicitation
Donner au pauvres apres ce l'etre fait demmander

Niveau 4 La honte
Donner au pauvres apres ce l'etre fait demmander, mais courrir le risque de semer la honte chez celui qui recoit

Niveau 5 Les limites
Donner a quelqun qu'on ne connais pas et laisser votre propre nom etre connu

Niveau 6 La corruption
Donner a quelqu'un que l'on connais sans qu'il sache qui l'a aidé

Niveau 7 L'anonimat
donner a quelqun dans l'anonimat, sans chercher a redorer votre propre image

Niveau 8 (Le plus élevé) La responsabilité
Le cadeau de l'auto-suffisance.
donner un cadeau, un pret, entrer en partenariat avec quelqun, ou lui trouver un travail, pour que cette personne ne soit plus jamais obligé de mendier.


"Il a exercé une influence considérable sur la philosophie médiévale. Les Chrétiens le connaissent sous le nom de Moïse Maïmonide et les Musulmans sous le nom de Mussa bin Maimun ibn Abdallah al-Kurtubi al-Israili. "

Source:
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAIMONIDE

Level 1(lowest) Reluctance
To give begrudgingly

Level 2 Proportion
To give less to the poor than is proper, but to do so cheerefully (katrina)

Level 3 Solicitation
Handing over money to the poor after being asked

Level 4 Shame
To hand money to the poor before being asked, but risk making the recipient feel shame

Level 5 Boundaries
To give to someone you don't know but allow your name to be known (childrens foundations)

Level 6 Corruption
To give to someone you know, but who doens't know from whom he is recieving help

Level 7 Anonimity
To give to someone you dont know, and to do so anonimously.

Level 8( highest ) Responsibility
The gift of self reliance.
To hand to someone a gift or a loan, or to enter into a partership with him,
or to find work for him, so that he will never have to beg again.


Levels of tzedakah
Maimonides, in his Mishneh Torah defined the following eight levels of charity, each greater than the next:

Giving a poor person work (or loaning him money to start a business) so he will not have to depend on charity. This is because the person is now free from having to rely on charity. The giver has not just helped the recipient for the short while, but instead for the rest of their life. There are four sub-levels to this:
Giving a poor person work.
Making a partnership with them (this is lower than work, as the recipient might feel he doesn't put enough into the partnership).
Giving a loan.
Giving a gift.
Giving charity anonymously to an unknown recipient.
Giving charity anonymously to a known recipient.
Giving charity publicly to an unknown recipient.
Giving charity before being asked.
Giving adequately after being asked.
Giving willingly, but inadequately.
Giving unwillingly.

Sources:
book: Rambam's ladder, Julie Salamon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rambam%27s_ladder