Give to Colombia, a US-based nonprofit organization is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a special event. The organization is known for their transparency and delivering targeted dollars toward Colombia’s biggest issues. According to the organization’s website, they “create, promote and facilitate alliances between international donors and Colombian grassroots organizations.” This year is the nonprofit’s tenth […]
Katharine McPhee and the Ronald McDonald House just recently announced a benefit concert for the Buffalo, NY location. Tickets for the charity concert go on sale on August 16th and will take place on November 24th at 7:30 p.m. at the Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo. The event is in commemoration for […]
The owner and chairman of the Washington Post Company, Donald Graham, is getting ready for a major re-branding and shift in business. Graham announced recently that he would be selling his newspaper, The Washington Post, to a different kind of Washingtonian, Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com. Graham’s company will be renamed after the sale take place […]
Social Enterprise Causora launched its first crowd funding campaign earlier this month. The Causora site, which went live in March this year, was created as a way to provide incentives for people to give more charity by rewarding them with gift cards. The crowdfunding platform now allows nonprofits to create a campaign for direct donations. […]
Imagine a life where you can’t kick a ball or run in a grassy field. Imagine being shunned because of your physical appearance. These are the things Dr. Ashok Banskota aims to change. Through his selfless work in a remote Nepalese village, children are getting a shot at a new life. Though he is locally […]
Nationally syndicated radio personality Kidd Kraddick died at the age of 53 this week at a charity golf event for his foundation in New Orleans. Kraddick founded his charity Kidd’s Kids over twenty years ago, which raises money to send terminally ill children on a fully funded vacation to Disney World or other similar theme […]
August is Black Philanthropy Month, a movement hosted by some groups to foster a since of community around giving from people of African-American descent. The month long event and promotion was created in 2011, when the African Women’s Development Fund declared a celebration of African-descent giving. Several nonprofits and multinational organizations are involved with the […]
One of American Express’s recent videos in their Passion Project campaign features the story of how Scott Harrison started charity:water. Living the life of a nightclub promoter, Scott was unhappy and felt like he needed to do something more. After learning about the need for clean water around the world, Harrison decided he wanted to […]
Several recent reports and surveys have indicated that Muslims are more charitable than Jews, Christians and Atheists. According to ICM research in the United Kingdom, while over 30% of religious people gave to charity, Muslims gave an average $567, Jews gave $412, Protestants donated $308 and Roman Catholics only averaged $272 in charitable donations. Atheists, […]
For whatever reason, people love a train wreck. When a celebrity loses it and shaves off all her hair or sends alarming tweets out to the world, the press absolutely eats it up. It may be because of so much sensationalized media coverage that we often glaze over and stop paying attention. So, when something […]