The Secret Santa of Idaho has struck again, for the seventh time. This time, he’s handing out $1 million in checks to people in need in East Idaho. In 2013, an anonymous donor contacted Nate Eaton, the news director of East Idaho News, wanting his help to distribute $100,000. Eaton and a small team review […]
Travis Scott, whose November 5th concert took a very deadly turn, announced on Monday that he would be offering to cover funeral costs and mental health services for the families of the eight people who were killed. The casualties ranged from 14 to 27 years old, and hundreds more were injured, including a police officer […]
The Bezos Earth Fund is promising to pour $2 billion into environmental protection, said founder Jeff Bezos as he spoke to world leaders at the COP26 climate summit on Tuesday, November 2nd. “Nature is beautiful, but it is also fragile,” said Bezos at the conference. “I was reminded of this in July when I went into […]
Fair Fight Action announced early Wednesday, October 27, that it has donated $1.34 million to the nonprofit RIP Medical Debt. The money will be used to wipe out the medical debts of over 100,000 people in Georgia, Arizona, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. Combined, their debt has a face value of $212 million. The money comes […]
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 […]