This summer, the Israel Museum has unveiled the fruits of its $100 million facelift. After two years of work to renew the structure, the country’s largest museum and most comprehensive collection of art in the Middle East now sports a new design. For the first time in history, the building has been made fully handicap-accessible. [...]
Filed under: Arts & Culture, News, Philanthropy on August 21st, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: Community, philanthropy, success
The National Capital Region is getting a boost in non-profit funding. Venture Philanthropy Partners is a non-profit organization that aims to help children from low-income families using the principles of venture capital investment. Recently, the organization gave $5.5 million to fund the expansion of the Knowledge is Power Program or KIPP DC, a network of [...]
When the earthquake struck Haiti on January 12, earlier this year, it shook more than just the ground and buildings. It shook entire lives, changing them forever. For this reason, some are taking their frustrations, stress and anxiety to the blank canvas.
Thanks to the media, we have heard countless stories of what happened during those [...]
Filed under: Arts & Culture, Community, News, Philanthropy on August 6th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
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A report from Public/Private Ventures, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and creating programs in low-income communities, shows the immensely positive impact of job training programs on unemployed and low-skilled workers. According to the report, these programs that are developed in collaboration with specific industries such as health care, accounting and even computer maintenance are [...]
Filed under: Community, Expertise, News, Philanthropy on August 3rd, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: Business, charity, Community, infrastructure, jobs, opportunity, philanthropy
While some philanthropists auction off a painting or two for the benefit of their favorite nonprofit organization, advertising tycoon and prominent contemporary art collector Charles Saatchi has seen fit to donate an entire gallery, complete with 200 artworks, to the British public. The Saatchi Gallery, a 70,000-square foot (6,500-square meter) located in Duke of York’s [...]
Filed under: Arts & Culture, Community, News on July 9th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
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There was never more need for the mega-wealthy to respond to Bill and Melinda Gates’ call to give up a huge chunk of their assets for charity than now. According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, at least forty-five states have imposed cuts in major service areas, which depend on the government for [...]
Filed under: News, Philanthropy on June 29th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: Community, funding, infrastructure, philanthropy
There’s a growing trend among travelers that introduces charity work into vacation time. Instead of just backpacking through a country, travelers are able to immerse themselves into different cultures by volunteering in different kinds of organizations on their own dime. These organizations often involve children in orphanages or schools, but they can also range from [...]
Filed under: Philanthropy, Technology on June 25th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
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The most famous city in the world is, not surprisingly, also the most populous in the US. And though New Yorkers produce just around 7.1 metric tons of trash per person compared with the national average of 24.5, the dense population still makes for a lot of ill-disposed trash and destruction of public and private [...]
Filed under: News, Philanthropy on June 9th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
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This year’s Shoes in the City event, held at Dylan’s Candy Bar, raised over $1500 from a silent auction and a raffle. Sponsored by philanthropic organization Bottomless Closet, the auction included items like an Oscar de la Renta jacket and a reservation at the Waverly Inn while the raffle included handbags by Inge Christopher and [...]
Filed under: News, Philanthropy on May 31st, 2010 @ 7:00 am
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Cydcor, Inc., a California-based sales organization, gives 27 boxes of items from home to troops on tour overseas through Any Soldier®, Inc. More than just donating funds, the company’s employees have involved themselves in putting together the packages for the troops that these boxes were filled with. These packages contained anything from simple food snacks [...]
Filed under: News, Philanthropy on May 27th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
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‘Younger than Moses: Idle Worship’ is an art exhibit featuring 22 artists in New York.
As part of the European Project FP7 research called “Integrated System for Transport Infastructures Surveillance and Monitoring by Electromagnetic Sensing,” a team of researchers had been gathered from the countries of Israel, Italy, France, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and Romania.