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Late Special Education Teacher Leaves $1 Million to Students

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Post date July 11, 2018

A check for one million dollars. — Image credit: Shutterstock

For 45 years, Genevieve Via Cava taught and helped students with learning disabilities in Dumont, New Jersey. It was her life. In 2008, she told the superintendent of her school district, Emanuele Triggiano, that she would donate a million dollars to the Dumont School District. He assumed it was hyperbole, and laughed it off. When she […]

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J.J. Watt Raises More Than $27 Million for Hurricane Harvey Victims

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Post date September 12, 2017

A photo of football star J.J. Watt at the 2015 ESPYS. Photo credit: Disney | ABC Television Group via Flickr Creative Commons

J.J. Watt is 28 years old and at the peak of his football career as the Houston Texan’s star defender. And he’s here to help. When he opened a Houston Flood Relief Fund on YouCaring on Sunday, August 27th, his initial goal of $200,000 was met and passed in a matter of hours, with donations […]

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