Steve Fox is donating $25 million to establish a cancer treatment center at Texas Tech University after his own cancer went into remission. More than 20 years ago, Steve Fox, car salesman and owner of several dealerships in El Paso, Texas, was diagnosed with severe tongue and throat cancer. “Being a (car) salesman, I thought […]
Metallica is donating $200,000 for emergency relief efforts during the wildfire catastrophe in Lahaina, Hawaii. The Lahaina wildfire is the worst natural disaster to strike Hawaii in almost 70 years, and may yet surpass the 1946 tsunami’s death toll of 150. As of Wednesday, the official death count is 106, 1,300 are still missing, and […]
Dwayne Johnson has contributed a ‘historic’ amount to SAG-AFTRA to help provide for union actors on strike. The Screen Actors’ Guild won’t disclose the specific amount other than to say that it’s in seven figures, but they are the ones calling it historic, and the largest total contribution ever received from a single individual. Two […]
Seth MacFarlane donates $1 million to support industry workers during the joint strikes of SAG-AFTRA and the WGA. Seth MacFarlane, creator of The Orville, could easily say he has to straddle the line between the Screen Actors’ Guild and the the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. He’s a member of both, an actor […]
OpenAI, Creator of ChatGPT, is donating $5 million to the American Journalism Project to develop AI tools to assist and support local journalism. “To ensure local journalism remains an essential pillar of our democracy, we need to be smart about the potential powers and pitfalls of new technology,” American Journalism Project CEO Sarabeth Berman said […]
Racial bias in medicine is still an issue, and $10 million in medical grants are meant to help fight it. The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation is the legacy of one of America’s wealthiest women. Doris Duke, who passed in 1993 at the age of 80, was a tobacco heiress and an active socialite. During her […]
A young author has donated copies of her own book to her local library for all to read. Ayla Anderson is ten years old, fresh out of the fourth grade at her Colorado elementary school. And for the past school year, she’s been writing, illustrating, and editing a book. Her first book, she makes sure […]
Donated SUVs are heading from Scotland to Ukraine, to help support both the war effort and the citizens trying to go on with their lives. Mark Laird, a farmer from Angus, and several other farms developed the Pickups 4 Piece program, to donate 4×4 vehicles to help out. (Pickups in Scotland aren’t trucks, they’re larger […]
An accidental donation of $15,000 has helped a fundraiser to feed the hungry rise beyond all expectations. A man who’s only given his name as Michael told his story on Reddit last month. He learned that his San Francisco neighbor, a Hindu priest, was running a charity to help support a community in poverty in […]
The Diamond family of Vancouver is donating $20 million to help fund a substance use treatment program that could have saved their loved one. Steven Diamond was 53 years old in 2016, when he died of a fentanyl overdose just a few days before he could have seen an addiction psychiatrist. He’d spend nearly three […]