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 […]
The Prep for Prep organization works to develop leadership skills and educational opportunities for students of color in New York City. It was started in 1978 by South Bronx teacher Gary Simons and has grown since then to support 225 students a year. Fifth, sixth, and seventh graders who scored in the top ten percent […]
The Philadelphia Inquirer, one of the oldest newspapers in the country, is going non-profit. Specifically, it and it’s sister publications, the Philadelphia Daily News and Philly.com, have been donated to Institute for Journalism in New Media, which itself is part of the Philadelphia Foundation. The move is an attempt to ease the financial burden that […]
Vorkuta Mining and Economic College, in the city of Vorkuta in the Komi Republic, a part of Russia, recently burned 53 books from their own library. They confiscated another 427 books in order to shred them. The books were related to a “Renewal of Humanitarian Education” program that is linked to charities run by George […]
(Image by Ritu Manoj Jethani / Shutterstock.com) Among his many other talents and accomplishments, musician David Bowie was also a dedicated servant of the fight against AIDS. Together with his wife, model Iman Abdulmajid, Bowie helped raise AIDS awareness around the globe as well as tackle the problems of famine in Africa. His history of philanthropic […]
