Working to Give: Philanthropies & Philanthropic Work
Stories of Philanthropy & Corporate Giving
The Australian K.I.D.S. Foundation is dedicated to lowering the amount of childhood injury and death. Australian K.I.D.S. spreading injury prevention education and provides programs in pre-schools, elementary and high schools. They run interactive education programs and give resources to 7, 500 schools. In their recovery program K.I.D.S. helps hundreds of[…]
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Ben Affleck and Matt Damon and have joined forces with Feeding America to make some strong and moving public service announcements. Each actor has made public service announcement to alert Americans to how real hunger pain is, and how prevalent. Ben takes the ‘official’ role and tells us the facts[…]
Read moreA corporate giant and a national charity are working together to expand a hunger relief program in thirty Kentucky counties. Wal-Mart Inc. has awarded $100, 000 in grant money to Elizabethtown-based Feeding America Kentucky’s Heartland. Feeding America will increase its BackPack Program and also the number of food items students[…]
Read moreChildren who live in poverty in the United States express similar needs and wishes to poverty stricken children in other parts of the world, according to a survey conducted by ChildFund Alliance. In developing nations, 57% of 10 to 12-year-olds indicated that education would be their top priority if they[…]
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AmeriCares, with its crew on the ground providing medical services since cholera struck, is preparing more emergency shipments of medicines to Haiti. These will be sent by both air and water, to fight the deadly disease which is spreading rapidly and has now reached Port-au-Prince, the capital city. In order[…]
Read moreThe Top 5 Youth Per Capita Award was given to Quinnipiac University at the American Cancer Society’s New England Relay For Life College Summit in Marlborough, Mass. The Top 5 Youth Per Capita Award was given to Quinnipiac because it was one of the top five schools, with between 5,[…]
Read moreThere are many ways to perform good deeds and to keep them giving. One can pay it forward to others who need help, or return a kindness or Tell 10 People. Feeding America’s “Hunger-Free Families” campaign seeks to encourage families to reach out and Tell 10 others about families who[…]
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On Thursday, November 5, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-34) Councilwoman Jan Perry (9th district) and SRO Housing joined Enterprise Community Partners (Enterprise), new residents and neighbors to celebrate the opening of the Renato Apartments located at 531 S. San Julian Street on Skid Row. The Renato[…]
Read moreCure, Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy, is very active in promoting research to find cures for epilepsy. In order to fund research cure also does a lot of fund raising. On Thursday, October 22, Susan Axelrod, the president of Cure, and her husband spoke at the CIA kick-off of[…]
Read moreThe Knicks Poetry Program is an amazing opportunity and outlet for youth to try their wings in poetry. The winners receive money for college tuitions, but the participants and the community receive much more. Youths aged 13-20 are encouraged to write poetry, in their own language, in hip hop form.[…]
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