The neat thing about taking dNeero surveys besides making cash for myself, I have the option to donate my earnings for ANY survey I take to a charity. The survey I took today was strictly for charity and I won't be making a penny from sharing my survey results with you. I wasn't required to take the survey but I wanted to support a charity, so I took it.It's always nice to give something and make a difference in somebody's life. The survey only took a few minutes and a visit to the sponsor's website. In my eyes, every penny counts.
Are you looking to raise some money for a particular cause or charitable foundation? Fundraising golf tournaments are a great way to raise money, but be prepared to put in a lot of hard work to pull it off. Depending on how it is organized, you could bring in anywhere from twenty to one hundred thousand dollars.Like any large venture, take some time and do your research. Contact the Chamber of Commerce in your city to get some feedback. Do some research and planning by reading up on fundraising golf tournaments on the internet and at your local library.Make sure you plan your event at a time when there are no other similar events occurring at the same time. You do not want your fundraising golf tournament to compete for the valuable charity dollars with other big charitable events.There are plenty of tips and advice available for organizing fundraising golf tournaments. One important tip is to get some experienced and knowledgeable golfers involved, especially those that have organized
KIEV, Ukraine -- The philanthropic practices of Ukraine’s most generous donors are receiving more attention as NGOs and businesses work together to promote the practice of corporate philanthropy within the nation’s business community.
Novynar, the Ukrainian-language sister publication of the Kyiv Post, named the top-15 Ukrainian philanthropists of 2007 in its first ever Philanthropist ratings
All together we can make a difference... Take a look at my friend's Himalman post!Foreign offices of organizers : XVI Final Great Orchestra of Christmas CharityWielka Orkiestra ?wi?tecznej Pomocy (The Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity) is the biggest and most prosperous charity organization in Poland. Its objectives, included in the status document, are saving children’s lives, health promotion and education in the field of preventive treatment. Between 1993 and 2006 The Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity has collected and spent over $65 mln for saving lives. Besides humanitarian work, the Foundation is also a powerful medium spreading the ideology of kindness, friendship, tolerance, and openness.Read more
Earlier in the week we reported some tragic news about J Church singer, Lance Hahn, passing away. We want to do what we can to help out Lance’s family with their medical bills so we are selling some autographed copies of NOFX’s latest LP, Wolves in Wolves Clothing, on yellow colored vinyl. We have 20 copies of the record that were donated to us by one of our generous fans, Jeff Wegner, aka Punkrockjeff. Jeff had this fitting comment on Lance’s passing that we feel is well-deserved…
“For a man that has given so much of his time, energy and life to the punk community by way of his writing, bands and projects, I feel the need to help in any way possible to give back to a man that has given so much to us. R.I.P. Lance”
We are selling each of the LP’s for $100 and while that may seem pretty expensive, be assured that ALL PROCEEDS will be going to Lance’s bills and funeral arrangements so it’s a worthwhile cause. Each person tha
Child's Play Charity 2007 Drive raises over $1,135,000!The Child’s Play Charity drive in 2007 raised over 1.1 million dollars! No doubt this number will rise as 2008 moves on, since the children’s hospital wish lists stay online all year and sometimes see donations past July. To quote: “Not only did we break the million dollar mark, but we decimated it with our new total of $1,135,000! This significant achievement made this holiday season a happier, brighter one in our fifty partner hospitals. To everyone who has contributed to this amazing milestone, thank you! The hospital wish lists are still online, and some have seen new items added. While we try to get lots of new games and more to the children in time for the holidays, the hospitals have a need for equipment year-round. Likewise, we will continue to accept donations through Amazon, PayPal and the mail until next year's fundraiser kicks off. Keep your eye out for one final update in January.” Share This
Sisters dressed in white and blue are always busy, running from one home to the other, and not having time for celebrations of any sort. But come Christmas, and the mood at the Missionaries Of Charity, home for the destitute founded here by Nobel Laureate Mother Teresa, is different. Here, the occasion is a time for celebration. Sisters of the order decorate the entire home with colorful paper chains, stars, bells, and Christmas trees and obviously with Santa Claus. A spokesperson for the Missionaries of Charity, Sister Christie, said: “Christmas is celebrated with high spirit and joy in MoC. Christmas is the time to spread the message of god’s love for common people. We invite children and common people on this day. We also believe it’s a day for giving.” “This day signifies that God loves common people so much that he sent his only son to this world for their service,” she added. Christmas celebration started at Mother House on Christmas E
Click here to listen.Although boxers like Oscar de la Hoya and Sugar Ray Leonard fight in front of thousands, using the squared circle as a stage to proudly display their ability, they seem to lose their edge and become wrought with anxiety when walking up to the first tee. Instead they become the "amateurs", stepping into an arena in which they are uncertain of their skills. In fact, De La Hoya was once quoted as saying, "I'd rather be fighting in front of 100,000 people than teeing off in front of ten."Who would have ever thought that the average amateur golfer's mental game could be superior to a fighter who trains his mind daily in order to beat his opponents? Trainer/kickboxer Kobus Huisamen mentions that "as a fighter trains, his mind also trains." With the intense preparation prior to a fight, shouldn't boxers make better golfers?Golf for Beginners also discusses a change in the Rules of Golf for 2008 which allows players to swap out equipment shafts and heads before a round. Is
Fashion online bible WWD enlisted top designers to design these gorgeous stockings and fill them up with their goodies, all to be auctioned off on ebay with proceeds donated to Citymeals-on-Wheels an organization which provides weekend and holiday meals to New York City’s homebound elderly. The auction is set to start tonight at 7pm.
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Kelly Osbourne and her fellow cast members of Chicago: The Musical gathered in London’s West End Cambridge Theatre to put on a charity performance whose proceeds went toward breast cancer organizations. Awesome job, and I’m totally appreciative of the charity work; I just hope that after all this hard work Osbourne will find the time to go somewhere warm and sunny — she’s turning so pale that she may turn into a fluorescent light bulb soon!
Stand out from the crowd in one-of-a-kind celebrity-decorated UGG Australia boots. From December 1 to 14, UGG Australia is hosting an online charity auction, Art & Sole, where boots jazzed up by A-list celebs are the hot items. Ashlee Simpson, Ashton Kutcher, Penelope Cruz, Matthew McConaughey, Jessica Simpson, Audrina Patdrige, Cindy Crawford, John Travolta, [...]
Last Saturday, the International Women's Club of Kiev (IWCK) held it's 15th annual Christmas charity drive, raising (at last count) $75,000 USD for charities. But I'm not writing about the charity per se. It was at this event last year that I first recognized that as a foreigner in Ukraine, I'm often privy to information that the average Kievan never hears about. I first attended this event last year, having found out about it from friends in the international community. I had been in the country only 15 months at the time. My wife had been in the country well before the IWCK held their first event, and never during the first 13 years knew it existed. But I hear about it not long after my arrival. And, I'm sure that as a foreigner that I'm also equally uninformed about just about everything that goes on in this city. I guess it's normal after all. During my time in the states, I was equally clueless to numerous neighborhood and cultural events going on right under my nose. I
Lush Charity Pot$19.95Available at: Lush.comThere are all sorts of great opportunities to Shop for a Cause these days. From beauty products and fashion finds, to housewares and gifts, there are plenty of ways to shop 'til you drop while ensuring that a portion of the purchase price goes to a worthy cause. It's a great deal in so many ways. How could you possibly make this do good trend better?Leave it to Lush, home of good-enough-to-eat handmade bath and body products, to take Shop for a Cause to the next level. When you purchase Lush's Charity Pot lotion 100% of the proceeds of sales (less taxes) go directly to worthy causes! That's fabulous.So, what is Charity Pot? According to Lush, "this luxurious hand and body lotion is made with fairly traded cocoa butter from projects in the Ivory Coast and the Dominican Republic. It also contains a blend of geranium, tagetes and ylang ylang essential oils to heal and cleanse, and almond oil to leave skin soft and smooth." Sounds like a perfect
Did you know that a golfing event is a great way to earn money for charitable organizations? Charity golf tournaments are highly successful for many reasons. First, people enjoy playing the game, so the fact that it is a golfing event will draw many people. Another reason for the popularity of these events is that people always jump at the chance to give to worthwhile causes, while at the same time getting something rewarding in return. But while these events are highly successful at bringing in money, they are incredibly difficult to organize and plan. Here are some tips for planning a successful charitable golfing event.One of the first things you need to do is choose a date and location. Charity golf tournaments need to be planned and booked well ahead of time. Remember, when you are having your event, the course that you have chosen will basically be giving you the entire facility for your event. They are not willing to do this too often, so booking well ahead of time is important
Please help support the charity FINCA by purchasing the Devendra song "There's Always Something Happening" on a benefit compilation put together by Natalie Portman on .The mission of FINCA International is to provide financial services to the world's lowest-income entrepreneurs so they can create jobs, build assets and improve their standard of living. *§ource: Devendra Banhart's myspace*
On November 27th, Waxploitation will launch its inaugural Causes album series with Causes 1 which includes exclusive and rare tracks donated by Animal Collective, The Black Keys, Bloc Party, Bright Eyes, Cornelius, The Cure, David Sylvian remixed by Chris Vrenna, Death Cab for Cutie, (International) Noise Conspiracy, The Shins remixed by Clint Mansell, Spoon, Teargas & Plateglass, Thievery Corporation and Travis.One hundred percent of the proceeds will go to three non-profit organizations:Doctors Without Borders ( doctorswithoutborders.org )Human Rights Watch ( hrw.org )Oxfam America ( oxfamamerica.org ).Although estimates of the number of people killed by the conflict in Darfur vary widely from 200,000 to 400,000, what is certain is that more than 2 million people have fled their homes because of the fighting, and 4 million are now in need of humanitarian assistance—making this one of the worst crises in the world today.*§ource: The Shins' myspace*
The New York Times Magazine’s Deborah Solomon conducted an interview with former U.N. antagonist and neocon maniac representative John Bolton last Sunday (based on the article from here, though, I have to wonder about the timing of the questions and the manner in which the interview was edited). And if you guessed that the interview was timed to coincide with the release of Bolton’s new book, then you win a commemorate model of the U.N. building with the top 10 stories missing.There is so much in this garbage that could be refuted by the answers that we all know so well, but I want to take note of one item in particular…Your book includes a personal anecdote about a turkey you returned to a supermarket, right before you went back to Florida as one of the lawyers for the Bush team after the election in 2000. It was Thanksgiving Day. My wife and daughter wanted a Thanksgiving dinner, and they didn’t want to eat the turkey because God knows when I was coming back from Florida. So
Dirka Dirka Murtha Jihad is such a great guy...From WaPo:Concurrent Technologies began two decades ago doing metalworking research in Pennsylvania's struggling rust belt. In the years since, the Johnstown, Pa., company has become a federal contracting chameleon.It is an intelligence adviser, an environmental consultant and a software engineering specialist. It has trained mine-detecting dogs and managed religion-based initiatives. It oversees construction projects, organizes conferences and studies ways to use hydrogen for fuel in Pennsylvania and South Carolina. Missile-defense research is part of its portfolio. So is the development of special armor for combat vehicles in Iraq and "solid waste technology" in Florida.And it is a nonprofit charity.Behind the rise of Concurrent is Rep. John P. Murtha (D-Pa.), chairman of the House Appropriations Committee's defense subcommittee, who helped arrange funding to launch the organization in 1988. Murtha has since arranged millions of dollars
The 7th On Sale charity auction is back with another one of a kind fashion experience. The annual event will offer shoppers thousands of items from the world’s top designers with all profits going to services and housing for those living with HIV and AIDS. “Its 20 years and more then 20 million deaths later [...]
This week, we look back at a few of the year's biggest economic stories.In recent years, home building and buying have increased, helping expand the American economy. But this year, the housing market has cooled. New home building dropped by more than twenty-five percent since last November.Many experts blame the housing market for the slow economic growth of two percent in the three-month period ending in October. In response, the Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged. Banks followed the Federal Reserve's decisions on interest rates.While housing declined, giving money to good causes increased. Businessman Warren Buffett announced a gift of about thirty-seven billion dollars to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Mister Buffett, an investor, is chief of Berkshire Hathaway. He is the world's second richest man.Bill Gates is the richest. Mister Gates helped start and remains the top shareholder of Microsoft, the world's biggest computer software maker. He started his foundati
If you had a chance to build a free website that produced a little bit of money, to who would you give the money to? Squidoo has the option to send your earnings to charity or to collect it for yourself. I'm curious if anyone chooses the charity option?For me well I finally put some use to the Squidoo account that I've had to make a few lenses for myself. So far I made a free mmorpg - Metin 2 page, and a Team Fortress 2 page(yes I love my video games). While for people who've been making pages for a long time they might not be the best looking ones, but for me they are an accomplishment. Its also a nice way for me to practice building up my first landing pages, and seeing what works. Nice thing about Squidoo is that the formatting, or titles etc are already created so all you really need to do is provide the content. Which I should add is pretty easy to set up as they have modules that will let you easily embed YouTube videos, Flikr pictures, or even easy to make link voting li
It happens all the time. Someone gets a new significant other, and pretty soon their priorities expand to include those of their sweetie. But Brad Pitt is speaking out against claims that his charity interests are the result of Angelina’s influence.
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After spending the day on a lunch outing with her mother and sister, Vanessa Hudgens spent last evening attending the Best Buddies International charity fundraiser.
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Planet Rock, PURE, Marshall Amplification and Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy have joined forces to host a major online charity auction -- "RockStarRadios" with the chance to bid on special edition DAB Digital radios all signed by rocks royalty. Rock and music legends from around the world have all been getting involved to make their mark on the PURE EVOKE -1XT Marshall edition DAB radios. The digital radios will be auctioned off at www.rockstarradios.com for the whole month of October and the highest bidder will win each radio. Bruce Dickinson is one of the featured artists that have signed a digital radio, and we would like to know whether you would like to promote this auction on your website. Other artists featured include Noel & Liam Gallagher, Alice Cooper, Phil Manzanera, Gene Simmons, Ronnie Wood, Bill Wyman, Joe Walsh to name a few. Anyone can bid and quite simply, the highest bidder for each radio will win a piece of rock history. The more money that is raised for NRMTC, the lo
“People often feed the hungry so that nothing may disturb their own enjoyment of a good meal.”
W. Somerset Maugham (1874 – 1965) British novelist and short story writer
Perhaps one of the least discussed expenses in personal finance blogs is charity, which I define as a voluntary given amount of money to any organization to benefit others. Why is that? I think perhaps we don’t know how to categorize the expense. Is is a bill, a personal expense or [...]
It's beginning to look like my state is becoming a hotbed of terrorist activity. The author, Patrick Poole, makes me want to move away. He has written several articles about terrorist links in Ohio. First there was the Holy Land Foundation. Then came Benevolence International, followed by Al-Haramain and KindHearts. Is Arab Student Aid International soon to join the list of Islamic “charities” closed down by the US government for financing terrorism? The Dublin, Ohio-based not-for-profit organization, Arab Student Aid International (ASAI), has funneled millions of dollars over the last decade to the HAMAS-founded and -operated Islamic University of Gaza (IUG) – an institution well known to be a financial and operational front for the terrorist organization – in addition to two other universities, Al-Quds and Al-Najah, both with extensive ties to HAMAS and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. IUG was not only founded in 1978 by HAMAS founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, but its past and pre
For the duration of this tour, Dream Theater will be donating unique items for auction on Ebay.100% of the proceeds will benefit Camp Good Days.The current item up for auction is a lithograph of the "Systematic Chaos" Cover Art, signed and numbered by the artist, Hugh Syme. This litho is also autographed by all five members of Dream Theater.Details: The print, in its' entirety, is 17" tall by 15" wide. The actual artwork is 12"x12". There is a white border surrounding the artwork (1.5" around the top and sides, 3.5 inches along the bottom where the signatures are). Hugh Syme, artist, has signed and numbered this print. This print is #12 of 50 total. The print can be shipped framed or unframed. Cost of shipping is paid by winning bidder. There is a slight crinkle in the bottom left corner of the litho (as can be seen in the close up photo). THIS AUCTION ENDS SEPTEMBER 17TH!Click here to place your bid!
For Immediate Release:Kathy's Curvy Corner is proud to announce the official launch of "Kathy's Caring Corner" Charity Campaign with the launch of "Curves For Charity". Sponsoring several trendy plus-...
TURKS & CAICOS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL TO AUCTION VIP GETAWAY VACATION TO BENEFIT ARTISTS FOR A NEW SOUTH AFRICAOnce-in-a-Lifetime VIP Festival Vacation to be Auctioned Online Los Angeles, CA (August 15, 2007) – The Turks & Caicos International Film Festival (TCIFF) has announced a charitable partnership with Artists for a New South Africa (ANSA) for its third annual event. This is the first charitable partnership for the Festival which will auction online a Once-in-a-Lifetime VIP Festival Vacation to benefit ANSA. TCIFF, held October 16-21, 2007, celebrates the fusion of cinema and music. Festival Executive Director Jasmine Guy said, “I am proud of the work ANSA does for the South African community, using the power and influence of their collective name for the enrichment of a beautiful, yet struggling, people.”“We at Artists for a New South Africa are honored and deeply grateful to be the charitable partner of this wonderful film festival. The money raised will have a
Seven Detroit Red Wings players are currently scheduled to play in a softball charity game versus the Royal Oak Fire Fighters on September 9th at 2pm. Nicklas Lidstrom, Chris Chelios, Dan Cleary, Kris Draper, Brett Lebda, Andreas Lilja and Kirk Maltby will all be playing in the game. The game will take place at Memorial [...]
I was asked recently for advice by a client, a 40% taxpayer. He wanted to make a substantial donation to charity, funded by the sale of an investment property. The property had a market value of £100,000 and the cost...
Finally completed this long overdue meme. I was tagged by Haq Ahamd better known as Dad of Four.This meme is quite long and is for a noble cause. It was started by Idham who has pledged to contribute RM127 to the Rumah Anak Yatim Darul 'Izzah orphanage in Malaysia for each meme completed by any blogger before 26th August 2007. His target is RM10,000.All you have to do is to complete at least seventeen out of the following twenty seven sentences. It took me a while but I finally completed all of it.However, just remember to leave a comment on Idham's blog to let him know that you have done the meme.So here goes:1. A person is only as good as ... his actions.2. Friendship is always ... something that should not be taken for granted.3. To love is to... share happy and sad moments, willingly.4. Money makes me... work.5. I miss ... going to work6. My way of saying I care is by ... kissing and hugging.7. I try to spread love and happiness by... helping others in need.8. Pick the flowers wh
The fine folks at Blogs We Luv have bestowed upon yours truly the:...for my work (to be done in a little over a week, on 7/28) at Blogathon 2007 for STAR.Thanks guys!Sign up today and sponsor me today!In related news, I'm going to put out a general call for ideas to blog about or do during my section of time of the Blogathon. Until then, any ideas are welcome...
The Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) Central Region Office 5, Trat Province invites public members and tourists to the visiting the 4th Kayake-Rally Charity for Thai Elephants during April 20th to 22nd. The Charity for the Thai Elephants will be held on Koh Chang.
TAT Central Region Office Region 5 Director Chuchart Oncharoen says the TAT is collaborating with the Designated Area for Sustai...
Randy inquires: I realize with the passage of the Pension Act of 2006 a taxpayer can make a contribution directly to charity, have it excluded from their taxable income, included in their required minimum distributions, and not deductible on Schedule A. Is there an exception to the deductibility on Schedule for taxpayers with an IRA [...]
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