Tagged: charity

November 27, 2012 @ 6:55 am By The Baltimore Sun  |  

Today is the first Giving Tuesday, a national event that encourages charitable donations and hopes to become as popular as Black Friday and Cyber Monday. GiveCorps.com is a Baltimore nonprofit crowdfunding program that is helping donors to maximize their giving today through a matching program. It… Read More

November 26, 2012 @ 5:44 am By The Next Web  |  

UK charity, Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research, is approaching charity donation via crowdfunding with its new website called Pledgeit. Around 30,000 people in the UK are diagnosed with blood cancers like leukaemia, lymphoma and myeloma every year. The site acts as a platform for people to challenge their… Read More

November 19, 2012 @ 4:47 am By The Guardian  |  

There are some positive aspects of social investment, but also risk that investors are profiting from poverty For just over a year now, I’ve been developing a new non-profit organisation, Minerva Pathway. We’re close to critical mass at the moment: the programme format is ready… Read More

November 16, 2012 @ 7:13 am By Statesman  |  

Scarlett Milling is like many 7-year-old Austin girls. She loves gymnastics, cheerleading and the online game Minecraft. She also loves dolls, specifically American Girl dolls. When her mother, Mary Moore, who writes essays for the Huffington Post, showed Scarlett a Huffington Post story about American… Read More

November 7, 2012 @ 10:01 am By Charles Luzar  |  

$400,000 in donations from 5,000 people in just 8 days.  Crowdfunding portal GoFundMe continues to have a big impact on the lives of Hurricane Sandy victims.  Their dedicated Hurricane Sandy relief page has been busy. Some of the stories people are sharing are just heart… Read More

November 5, 2012 @ 8:15 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

  It is becoming clear that Hurricane Sandy has had an astonishing impact on the eastern seaboard of the US.  Dozens are dead.  New York officials estimate that up to 40,000 people were left homeless by the storm.  The FEMA trailers made famous in the… Read More

October 30, 2012 @ 8:00 am By JD Alois  |  

THE Full Monty star Steve Huison is to play a lead role in a film based on the true story of a ‘miracle’ Burnley boy who was born four months premature. Jack Entwistle, now seven years old, weighed just 1lb 6oz when he was born,… Read More