Photo credit: a katz / Shutterstock.com Berta Cáceres, an environmental activist and member of the Lenca indigenous people of Honduras, was assassinated in the home of a friend at the end of February. She had been staying there due to recent threats against her life. She was 44 and a mother of four. Two of her […]
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The Make-A-Wish foundation is teaming up with video game publisher Activision and celebrities to create special, one-of-a-kind toys for the Skylanders SuperChargers video game. The celebrities include Ben Collins, formerly of Top Gear, Formula 1 driver Mac Chilton, French TV icon Joan Faggianelli, YouTube stars St3pny and TheKing77, and kite-surfing champion Gisela Pulido. Each of […]
According to recent surveys by Google Consumer Surveys and bankrate.com, 62% of Americans have less than $1,000 in their savings, and 21% have no savings account to speak of. The data has raised some concerns among fundraisers as to the ability of people to donate to charitable causes, especially retired people. 4 out of 5 […]
Image credit: rvlsoft / Shutterstock.com Advertising can be an important part of a nonprofit’s mission. Getting the word out there and attracting new donors or volunteers is essential to keeping a nonprofit healthy and stable. And, with the ever increasing presence of social media, advertising on sites like Facebook is becoming more and more important. Recently, […]
Following an unprecedented amount of rain last October, a number of homes in South Carolina, especially in Richland and Lexington counties, were damaged by flooding caused by the storms. While a number of the people living in those homes have managed to get the repairs taken care of, a lot of people slipped through the […]
Image via Joseph August / Shutterstock.com Former President George W. Bush charged a veterans’ group, Helping a Hero, $100,000 to speak at an event held in 2012. His wife, former First Lady Laura Bush received $50,000, and they were flown there in a private jet which cost another $20,000. All told, the charity spent $170,000 to […]
France recently put into effect a new law which requires all grocery stores over 4,304 square feet to donate unsold food to charities. Those stores must sign contracts with local shelters or food banks to ensure that they do not waste food which is still edible, but not expected to sell. Sell by and busy […]
Have a Hart Day is a volunteer initiative started by Hannah Hart, a YouTube star, actor, author, and comedian best known for her web series My Drunk Kitchen. Hart is by no means the first celebrity, of any scale, to start a charitable organization, but Have a Hart Day, often shortened to HAHD, isn’t a […]
According to Save the Children, Ethiopia is on the verge of the worse drought in 50 years, and the response hasn’t been big enough to handle the issue. They are expecting around 350,000 newborns during the next six months, when the “hunger season” reaches its peak. Those extra mouths will be hard to feed in […]
2014 saw a dramatic rise in STDs according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and those numbers were especially high among younger people. Rationalizing that those younger people are also mobile phone users, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation started putting up billboards in Los Angeles and New York that associated the dating app Tinder […]