The First Americans Museum in Oklahoma has been given a much-needed infusion of funds, with a $2 million donation from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS). The First Americans Museum was begun in a storefront in the 1990s as the American Indian Cultural Center and Museum. It began construction on its […]
Ludacris, the Dirty South rapper from Atlanta with three Grammy awards, has donated $10,000 to a grassroots project trying to help incarcerated people connect with their families. Jay’Aina Patton and her father Antoine are developing the app Photo Patch, which is a photo app specifically meant for children to send pictures to their family in […]
Daniel Craig has donated 10,000 GBP to Three Men Walking, a charity raising money toward suicide prevention. Three Men Walking is founded by three fathers Andy Airey, Mike Palmer, and Tim Owen, who lost daughters to suicide. Together, the three are walking three hundred miles from Cumbria to Lynn to raise awareness and donations. The […]
Kroger, the grocery giant, is donating $1 million to the survivors of a deadly shooting in one of their locations in Collierville, Tennessee, which occurred just over a week ago. On Saturday morning, September 23, a man walked into the grocery store and opened fire. He injured 15 people, killed one, and then turned his gun […]
Inspiration4 was the first crewed orbital mission to take no astronauts, only tourists. The SpaceX flight was chartered by Jared Isaacman, a billionaire defense contractor and pilot. Aside from being a feather in the cap of the four passengers, the flight aboard the Crew Dragon Resilience was meant to raise awareness, support, and funds for […]
Tom Golisano, 79, made his fortune in founding Paychex, a payroll and human resources service that contracts with hundreds of thousands of businesses around the world. The company, which went public in the early 1980s and operates in 18 countries, brings in around $4.1 billion in revenue a year. Still chairman of the board, Golisano […]
A particularly evil part of the new abortion law in Texas is that it allows anyone to sue anyone who “knowingly” assists in an abortion after the detection of a heartbeat–including the medical provider, third parties paying for the procedure, or even a family member driving the patient out of state to a clinic for […]
Metallica has donated $50,000 to Haiti via its All Within My Hands foundation. On August 14th, a 7.2 magnitude earthquake shook Haiti, destroying over 50,000 homes, with a confirmed 2,200 dead and rising. Flooding from Tropical Storm Grace, which occurred less than 72 hours after the quake while the island was still experiencing large aftershocks, […]
An earthquake struck Haiti early Saturday morning, destroying buildings and and streets. Two days later, on Monday, tropical storm Grace swept across the island nation, hampering rescue efforts with flash floods and roads turned into river. The quake, which measured at 7.2, is larger than the 2010 quake that flattened much of the county’s infrastructure. […]
Mary’s Meals has raised almost £6.5 million ($9 million) to feed children in Liberia, where the pandemic has made a poverty crisis worse. Mary’s Meals, formerly known as Scottish International Relief, is an internationally registered charity. Their goal is setting up school meal programs in communities which ordinarily cannot afford them, especially in undeveloped countries. […]