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Buffett On Philanthropy: 'It'd Be Madness Not To Do It'

Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Video, Charity, Rockefeller, The Giving Pledge, Warren Buffett, Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Donations, The Gospel of Wealth, Warren Buffett Giving Pledge, Andrew Carnegie, Impact News

A group of billionaires met to talk about money -- not earning it, but how to best give it away. Thirty-five billionaires who have handed over a m...

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Making The World A Better Place: How Everyday Citizens Are Doing It

Robert Grosshandler | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Animal Rescue, Moreton Binn, Homelessness, Streetwise, Charity, Marisol Rinn, Volunteers, igive.com, Donations, Brillianteen, Giving, Socially Responsible, Impact News

When I founded iGive.com in 1997, I could only hope that it would grow into 350,000 socially-conscious consumers shopping at over 1,000 socially-respo...

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I Want My Mother's Day Gifts To Give Back

Barbara Hannah Grufferman | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Gifts That Give Back, Charitable Giving, Mother's Day Gifts, Charities, Mothers-Day-Pkg, Donations, Nancy Taylor, Gifts That Give, Fifty News

Combining online shopping with social good, Gifts that Give lets shoppers purchase upscale products at regular retail prices and donates $1 out of every $5 they spend to any cause of their choice.

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Venture Capital Firm Giving Half of Profits To Charity

Reuters | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Philanthropy, Hunger, Charity, Venture Capitalists, Environment, Small Business News and Trends, Donations, Venture Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Small Business News

(By Sarah McBride - Reuters) - In an effort to kickstart more charitable giving around Silicon Valley, the six general partners at venture firm Andree...

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Charity Study: Most People Think OTHERS Should Give More

Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Ron Sellers, Giving to Charity, Charity, Middle Class, Donating to Charity, Survey, Grey Matter Research, Arizona, Donations, Giving, Video, Impact News

By Mark Hrywna, The NonProfit Times Just how much money does someone need to earn each year to be considered one of “those people who have a lot ...

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Best Credit Cards for Going Green

Curtis Arnold | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Credit Cards, Environmental Friendly, Going Green, Non-Profit, Personal Finance, Donations, Charities, Credit Unions, Business News

Not all cards are as green as they claim; industry observers often accuse banks of "greenwashing" their most basic cards with logos of well-known charities, without addressing long-term environmental preservation efforts.

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Post-Disasters, These Classrooms Need Help: What You Can Do

James Rosenberg | Posted 04.01.2012

Read More: Miami, Adopt-a-Classroom, School Supplies, Officemax, Help Henryville, Donations, Midwest Tornadoes, Charity, Impact News

Imagine you arrive at work one day and your boss tells you that the office supplies you need to do your job (e.g., paper, pens, even your computer) mu...

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Monday Morning Motivation

Angela Perkey | Posted 05.21.2012

Read More: Service, Customer Service, Personal Motivation, Giving to Charity, Donating to Charity, Charity, Monday Motivation, Employer Giving, Corporate Giving, Donations, Employee Giving, Motivation at Work, Impact News

Have you ever felt less than motivated to go to work? For the vast majority of us, the answer is a resounding yes.

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The #1 Easiest Way To Take Action During World Water Week

Posted 03.21.2012

Read More: Spring Into Action, UNICEF Tap Project, World Water Week, Video, Caryl Stern, World Water Day, Charity, Water, Clean Water, Wwd, Donations, Unicef, Impact News

The next time you're automatically handed that glass of water in your favorite restaurant, UNICEF urges you to realize how fortunate you are -- and th...

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Direct Your Dining-Out Funds To Needy Women, Girls

Posted 03.24.2012

Read More: Rwanda, Hunger, Video, Cari Class, Jennifer Moyen-Logan, Charity, Nepal, Haiti, Dining for Women, Donating to Charity, Marsha Wallace, Guatemala, Donations, Impact News

When Marsha Wallace invited 20 friends over for dinner almost a decade ago, the Greenville, S.C., woman didn't know what it would grow into. She a...

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Help This 6-Year-Old Boy With Brain Cancer Get Lifesaving Treatment

Posted 03.11.2012

Read More: Video, Charity, Pediatric Cancer, Brooklyn, Josia Cotto, Brain Tumor, Community Partnership Charter School, Donations, Meliza Torres, New York, Maysa Barclay, Impact News

Six-year-old Josia Cotto is fighting for his life, and his community is joining in to help him get a potentially lifesaving treatment. Josia suffer...

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Teens Collect 1 Million Jeans For Homeless

Posted 03.06.2012

Read More: Puerto Rico, Aeropostale, dosomething.org, Charity, Demi Lovato, Donating, Aria Finger, Teens for Jeans, Donations, Canada, Teenagers, Video, Impact News

Teens across the country collected a record-breaking 1 million jeans for homeless youth in just one month. For the fifth year running, DoSomething....

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How You Can Honor Women For Women's History Month

Lisa M. Dietlin | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: National Women's History Project, Girl Scout Cookies, Philanthropy, Literacy, Girl Scouts, Women's History Month, Volunteering, Charity, Ms. Foundation for Women, Donations, Ywca, Making a Difference, Slidepollajax, Impact News

With Women's History Month upon us, many organizations and entities including are paying attention and plan to honor and pay tribute to the many gener...

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Dying Dad Inspired By Sons With Autism, Leg Amputations (How You Can Help)

Posted 03.02.2012

Read More: Texas, Donate, Bone Cancer, Logan Buentello, Donations, Mike Buentello, Stage 4 Cancer, Dominic Buentello, Fathers, Rare Bone Disease, Video, Impact News

Mike Buentello is about to start chemotherapy for his third battle with cancer. The 36-year-old father doesn't like to talk about his stage four d...

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Ill. Teens Sew And Donate Thousands Of Stuffed Animals

Oak Lawn Patch | Posted 02.27.2012

Read More: Stuffed Animals, Mark Dynia, Oak Lawn, Bridget Regan, Stuffed Love, Greatest-Person-of-the-Day, Homeless, Illinois, Donations, Sarah Dynia, Nursing Home, Hungry, Impact News

Sarah Dynia and Bridget Regan are so close that they finish each other’s sentences. The Oak Lawn teens talk in excited bursts of language that we...

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YouTube Launches 'Next Cause' To Help Nonprofits Change World Through Video

Posted 02.19.2012

Read More: Video, Charity, American Jewish World Service, Nonprofit, Youtube, The Post Carbon Institute, Ronald Mcdonald House Charities, Donations, Falling Whistles, Project for Awesome, CARE USA, YouTube Next Cause, The Global Poverty Project, Impact News

YouTube is making it easier for nonprofits to inspire and inform the online community of do-gooders. The video sharing site has launched YouTube Ne...

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Donations From Strangers Pour In For Woman Who Induced Labor For Dying Husband

Posted 02.21.2012

Read More: Jonathon Aulger, Mom-Induces-Labor, Video, Charity, Pulmonary-Fibrosis, Diane Aulger, Motherhood, Savannah Aulger, Donations, Impact News

Mark Aulger was able to hold his daughter for the first 45 minutes of her life. It was bittersweet, as he tragically died five days later, according t...

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Buying Out Our Guilts

Nikolas Katsimpras | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Corporate Philanthropy, Philanthropy, Politics, Developing World, Humanitarian, Donating to Charity, Donations, Haiti Aid, Humanitarian Aid, Culture News

Afterwards we forget all about it, like we do after throwing a dollar in a homeless person's cup, walking away with pride, having temporarily silenced our inner voice. No questions are asked if the donated money finally reaches what it is meant for and in what way.

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Former Ronald McDonald House Charities Exec Stole From Sick Kids

Posted 02.14.2012

Read More: Embezzlement, Randall Morrison, Video, Charity, Ronald McDonald House, Cancer Survivor, Magnus Knudsen, Child Cancer, Donations, Jolene Kopplin, Lance Kopplin, Impact News

Randall Morrison, the former treasurer for a branch of the Ronald McDonald House Charities, is on trial for stealing $142,000 from the organization's ...

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eBay Users Donate $120 Per Hour To Charity

Posted 02.14.2012

Read More: Ebay, Celebrity Auction, Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy Award, Donate, Charity, Ebay Giving Works, John Donahoe, Pamela Omidyar, Pierre Omidyar, Celebrity Giving, Richelle Parham, Donations, Video, Impact News

eBay's good deals just got a little better. The auction site enabled its users to give a record $63 million, or $120 a minute to charitable causes ...

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Helping the World, One Translation at a Time

Nataly Kelly | Posted 04.08.2012

Read More: Language, Donations, Charity, Translation, Giving Back, Impact News

How did translation and interpreting companies give back and pay it forward over the past twelve months? Let us count the ways:

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Warren Buffett Matches Teen's Donation To Reduce Budget Deficit

Posted 02.02.2012

Read More: Berkshire Hathaway, Debt, Charity, Federal Budget Deficit, Budget Donations, Warren Buffett, Donations, Katie Murphy, Republicans, Video, Impact News

At 16, Katie Murphy of Northbrook Ill., decided to take the federal budget deficit into her own hands, citing the problem as one her generation will h...

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Wall Street Money Shifts To Romney And Republicans From Obama

HuffingtonPost.com | Ben Hallman | Posted 02.01.2012

Read More: Video, Newt Gingrich 2012, Wall Street, Super PACs, Mitt Romney 2012, Mitt Romney, Money in Politics, Donations, Newt Gingrich, Barack Obama 2012, Election 2012, Barack Obama, Campaign Finance, Politics News

New campaign finance data released late Tuesday reveals in stark monetary terms just how little love there is left for Barack Obama on Wall Street. ...

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The Three Dollar Check

Conor Grennan | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Inspiration, Giving, Faith, Philanthropy, Strategic Philanthropy, Donating to Charity, Good Deeds, Donations, Good News, Impact News

There are a lot of ways to inspire people. But there is one common strand of DNA that unites all those inspirational people out there. They are committed.

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Moving Forward After Closing Hull House

Sid Mohn | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Nonprofits, Jane Addams Hull House, Donations, Hull House, Volunteering, Jane Addams, Jane Addams Hull House Closes, Chicago Impact, Chicago News

Today is a new day in Chicago. This week is the first in more than 120 years that Chicago will be without Jane Addams Hull House -- one of the preeminent social service agencies in the nation. It's a sobering thought.

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