As the AIDS pandemic continues to grow relentlessly, the funds required to combat its effects are dwindling due to the onset of economic difficulties. Not only are new sources of funding insufficient, but money that was previously expected is also being put on hold, leaving AIDS foundations in dire need.
According to AIDS statistics published in [...]
Filed under: Healthcare, News, Philanthropy on May 17th, 2010 @ 11:00 am
Tagged with: charity, healthcare, philanthropy
There are 2.6 billion people worldwide who lack toilets to do their dirty business in. An innovative social service group based in India plans to solve this problem with its toilet that can recycle human waste into fertilizer and biogas. By 2025, Sulabh International Social Service Organization aims to provide everyone on earth with access [...]
Filed under: Environment, News, Philanthropy on May 16th, 2010 @ 11:21 pm
Tagged with: charity, clean energy, energy, Environment, innovation, philanthropy
An innovative new company established in February of this year presents ATM users with the opportunity to donate a part of their transaction fee to their charity of choice from among a set list of non-profit organizations. New York-based Choose Change ATM helps consumers gain a certain level of conciliation with having to pay ATM [...]
Filed under: News, Philanthropy on May 13th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: innovation, philanthropy, Technology
Just weeks after announcing their decision to donate $10 billion to develop and deliver vaccines in the developing world, it seems that the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation has not forgotten about the local youth. They have just recently also pledged to donate $110 million towards transforming remedial education in community colleges. This is in [...]
Filed under: News, Philanthropy on May 5th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: philanthropy
In an admirable act of self-sacrifice, the Quixote Foundation (QuixoteFoundation.org), a charitable organization dedicated to environmental equity, U.S. reproductive rights, U.S. election integrity and U.S. media reform, has recently decided to spend its entire endowment. Earlier this month, the organization announced that it would be spending all of its money from now until 2017.
In order [...]
Filed under: News, Philanthropy on April 26th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: non-profit, philanthropy
A strange evolution of concepts has led to the recent presentation of a prestigious philanthropy award to actor Kevin Bacon for his non-profit called Six Degrees.
The idea behind the Six Degrees of Separation (also known as the “Human Web”), is that everyone in the world is connected to everyone else through six or fewer levels [...]
Filed under: News, Philanthropy on April 19th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: Community, internet, philanthropy
Considering that layoffs, lack of decent employment opportunities and the effect of unemployment numbers on the economy are some of the biggest problems people are facing in today’s financially troubled world, any move that aims to help out-of-work individuals find jobs again is certainly a welcome one.
This is precisely what the Wal-Mart Foundation is [...]
Filed under: News, Philanthropy on April 15th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: jobs, philanthropy
According to the 2010 State of the Nonprofit Sector, a new survey from the Nonprofit Finance Fund, only 18 percent of more than 1,300 nonprofit leaders who participated in the survey expect their organizations to have a surplus of funds for 2010. This is despite the fact that 35 percent of the respondents reported a [...]
Filed under: News, Philanthropy on April 8th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: finance, government, philanthropy
Many of the athletes competing in the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver are bringing the same dedication to training and competing as they do to supporting their communities and the causes that inspire them. The following are a few of the individuals involved in philanthropic pursuits during this winter’s games:
• U.S. women’s hockey team captain Angela [...]
Filed under: News on February 17th, 2010 @ 11:11 am
Tagged with: Business, charity, Community, global, opportunity, philanthropy
Kohl’s department stores in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, recently announced a three year, $7 million initiative to support breast cancer research, education, and patient assistance programs throughout the Midwest United States.
The money is destined to provide grants to the American Cancer Society’s Midwest division to develop and distribute a breast health kit containing resources on reducing [...]
Filed under: News on February 15th, 2010 @ 8:30 am
Tagged with: Business, charity, Community, effective, innovation, philanthropy
‘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.