Communist Party papers remark on Hong Kong quake donation row, quoting...
Two Communist Party mouthpieces yesterday reported the controversy in Hong Kong over the HK$100 million donation to earthquake victims in Sichuan - pointing the finger at the Red Cross Society of...
View ArticleCharitable And Faith Leaders Respond To House Farm Bill Inclusion Of Severe...
(Source: Feeding America) Charity cannot make up the increased need that would be created by proposed cuts May 15, 2013 The nation's leading hunger-relief charities and religious advocates expressed...
View ArticleCharity scuffle to blame for Bakerfield Relay for Life's lower totals?
BAKERSFIELD, CA - Bakersfield's Relay for Life still holds the title as the largest event of its kind in the world. While this year's event brought in more than $1.7 million, it's hundreds of...
View ArticleMenendez late with charity donations, blames lawyers
Sen. Bob Menendez promised a year ago while running for reelection that he would donate $18,800 to two charities after a insurance broker pleaded guilty to using “straw donors” to make illegal...
View ArticleCharitable And Faith Leaders Respond To House Farm Bill Inclusion Of Severe...
Charity cannot make up the increased need that would be created by proposed cuts WASHINGTON, May 15, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The nation's leading hunger-relief charities and religious...
View ArticleMajority of homeless ‘capable of independent living’
Over 70 per cent of people who are homeless in Ireland are capable of independent living but access to more housing is required if the problem of homelessness is to be addressed, the launch of a new...
View ArticleW-B Soup Kitchen Gets Great Help from Great Outdoors
Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County -- A volunteer at Saint Vincent de Paul Kitchen in Wilkes-Barre removed a sizzling hot container from the oven. It's a steaming pan of fresh venison chili to be served to...
View ArticleCommunity Saves Homeless Man's Dog (PHOTO)
The story of a homeless man's unconditional love for his sick dog has triggered an outpouring of support for the dog and his down-and-out owner. Last month, Charles Gilliam had been living on the...
View ArticleBenefits rule risks closure of night shelters forcing hundreds onto streets
Salford among councils invoking legality that stops housing benefit for nights spent by claimants in emergency shelters Hayley Bond found sanctuary at the Narrowgate night shelter, run by Manchester...
View ArticleCo-op Ville
IT HAS been said that we can live without food for 40 days, without water for eight days and without air for eight minutes. But we cannot live even for three seconds without love! Without that love,...
View ArticleTax scandal ‘may harm donations,’ says head of UK’s largest charity...
The Charity Commission’s handling of a high-profile tax-avoidance scandal that saw shockingly little donated money reach good causes has put charities at risk of losing the public’s confidence – and...
View ArticleNo More Poverty Leads Blanket Drive to Help People Experiencing Homelessness...
The Omidi brothers, through their charity No More Poverty, are donating 1000 pounds of linens and organizing a multi-charity effort to distribute warm blankets to help people experiencing...
View ArticleNo More Poverty Organizes Blanket Drive for the Homeless at the Midnight...
The Omidi brothers, through their charity No More Poverty, are donating 1000 pounds of linen for a multi-charity effort to distribute warm blankets to help people experiencing homelessness. Los...
View ArticleTax scandal threatens charity donations
The Charity Commission’s handling of a high-profile tax-avoidance scandal that saw shockingly little donated money reach good causes has put charities at risk of losing the public’s confidence – and...
View ArticleAustin Oral Surgery Donates Needed Items to Trinity Center, a Nonprofit...
Among the items donated were toiletries, mugs, plastic cups, condiments and more. Austin, TX (PRWEB) May 15, 2013 Austin Oral Surgery has donated desperately needed items to Trinity Center, an...
View ArticleAustralia's first charity celebrates 200 years
ELEANOR HALL: It's one of the oldest charities in the world, and today Australia's Benevolent Society turns 200. The society is not linked to any religious organisation but was begun by a visionary...
View ArticlePriest to lonely dead: 'I love you'
ROYAL PALM BEACH— No one Mary Helen Wells knew was at her funeral. The physical sum of her 85 years filled a donated urn Monday afternoon, among 36 other donated urns full of unwanted remains. A...
View ArticleEditorial: Charities must be just that - so let's have clarity
Charity has a plain meaning to most people. It means an act of assistance for others, performed without pay or an expectation of reward. Governments have compromised the purity of the motive somewhat...
View ArticleDonations to groups that help homeless won't solve problem either
I find ironic the May 14 My View by Christy Shepard, executive director of the Coalition for Homelessness Intervention...
View ArticleVinnies Chief Says Disadvantaged Should Not Suffer Because of Govt Cuts...
(Source: Archdiocese of Sydney) Catholic Communications, Sydney Archdiocese, 8 May 2013 The Federal Government will allow those on the $35 per day Newstart Allowance to earn more from casual or part...
View ArticleTrading Standards warning over charity collections (Aberdeenshire Council)
(Source: Aberdeenshire Council) Trading Standards warning over charity collections 9th May 2013 Aberdeenshire Council's Trading Standards Service has recently been made aware of suspicious charity...
View ArticleAsylum-seekers abandoned to charity for basics
IT is a matter of great sadness for the St Vincent de Paul Society that the federal government is abandoning asylum-seekers to fend for themselves in the community with minimal, or even no, support...
View ArticleHomeless man could have been saved with more ‘hands-on’...
The death of a homeless man in Ennis, Co Clare, at the weekend could have been avoided “if there was more a hands-on response to his situation”, a local charity worker has said. Anthony McDonagh of...
View ArticleCharities tighten data after thefts
Identity theft hadn’t really been a worry for the Society of St. Vincent De Paul in St. Petersburg. The Catholic charity provides shelter and serves food for the area’s needy, feeding between 600 and...
View ArticleEd Denst, Homeless Former Marine In Los Angeles, Collects Money For Poor
Any extra change could go a long way for Ed Denst, but the homeless 77 year-old former Marine gives whatever he can to help struggling people just like him. Denst, who’s been living on the streets of...
View ArticleElderly homeless man donates $250 in dollar bills to charity that has fed...
Homeless man Ed Denst,...
View ArticleHomeless Man Donates $250 To Charity
Posted: May 3, 2013 An homeless man donated $250 to a charity organization in Los Angeles. Ed Denst, age 77, collected $1 bills and donated them all to the Society of Saint Vincent de Paul Council....
View ArticleHomeless L.A. man collects $250, donates it to Catholic charity that fed him...
An elderly homeless man who has relied on the kindness of strangers to survive...
View ArticleSCDF Are Mayor's Charity (St Helens RFC Ltd)
(Source: St Helens RFC Ltd) SAINTS Community Development Foundation is delighted to announce they have been chosen as the new Mayoral Charity. Labour Councillor Andy Bowden begun his new role this...
View ArticleA Fight for the Future of Saint John's: Saint John's Foundation and Hospital...
Tweet Send to a Friend LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Saint John’s Health Center Foundation together with the physician leadership of Saint John’s Heath Center and John Wayne Cancer Institute...
View ArticleA Fight for the Future of Saint John's: Saint John's Foundation and Hospital...
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Saint John’s Health Center Foundation together with the physician leadership of Saint John’s Heath Center and John Wayne Cancer Institute announced today their strong...
View ArticleCatholic Social Services of the Diocese of Charlotte Renamed Catholic...
CSS Charlotte rebrands as Catholic Charities to better reflect its mission and association with CCUSA ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 17, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Effective May 17, 2013, Catholic Social...
View ArticleGovt Axe to NZ Charity With Traditional View on Marriage (Archdiocese of...
(Source: Archdiocese of Sydney) Catholic Communications, Sydney Archdiocese, 17 May 2013 One month after New Zealand voted to legalise same sex-marriage, an organisation promoting traditional family...
View ArticleCharity boss alarmed by Canberra's loss of focus on homelessness
THE head of one of the nation's largest charities has expressed concern that Labor has abandoned its commitment to halving homelessness by 2020 after the federal budget failed to fund efforts beyond...
View ArticleSouda’s Luminous Bubble Chandelier is Made From Bottles Collected by...
Inhabitat was really excited to see Brooklyn’s own Souda in person at this year’s ICFF. The young collective’s gorgeous Bubble Chandelier is not only made from recycled soda bottles, but also provides...
View ArticleClothing movement to "Fitch the Homeless" reaches Colorado
Yes, that homeless person you just passed was wearing Abercrombie & Fitch clothing. A movement dubbed "Fitch the Homeless" is underway after comments made seven years ago by company CEO Mike...
View ArticleDoggy delight as council presents donations to charity (East Devon District...
(Source: East Devon District Council) Monday 20 May TAILS are wagging at Dogs Trust after East Devon District Council presented the charity with a cheque for £1,100. The council has been collecting...
View ArticleChinese Medicine Charity Foundation receives HK$400,000 in donations in...
(Source: Hong Kong Baptist University) Chinese Medicine Charity Foundation receives HK$400,000 in donations in support of "Privilege Scheme of Chinese Medicine Service for...
View ArticleHeartless Govt Ignores UN Convention & Brings Shame to Us All - Bishop...
(Source: Archdiocese of Sydney) Catholic Communications, Sydney Archdiocese, 20 May 2013 A mean-spirited policy and a heartless PM are exploiting a loophole in the system to force an already...
View ArticleAnonymous Man Donates $25,000 To Humane Society Of Durham Region (PHOTO)
This week, an unidentified man redefined generosity by anonymously donating a large sum of money to a Canadian animal shelter. According to Canada's Metro News, the mystery man dropped an envelope off...
View ArticleDonations to Rock Hill shelter dry up
Two years ago, it was the kindness of a stranger and the shelter at Rock Hill’s Pilgrims’ Inn that kept Sally Dominguez and her 9-year-old daughter, Amber, from spending another night under a...
View ArticleCeltic donation presented to Calum's Cabin charity (Celtic plc)
(Source: Celtic plc) Celtic donation presented to Calum's Cabin charity By: Newsroom Staff on 10 May, 2013 16:59 NEIL Lennon today officially presented a £12,500 donation to Calum´s Cabin on...
View ArticleEric Garcetti: Steve Aoki Concert Helps Woo The LA Hipster Vote (PHOTO)
: This story comes courtesy of LA Weekly. By Dennis Romero When a 15-year-old girl died from a drug overdose after she attended Electric Daisy Carnival at the Los Angeles Coliseum in 2010, L.A. Mayor...
View ArticleTips On Disaster Relief Donations (BBB - Council of Better Business Bureaus)
(Source: BBB - Council of Better Business Bureaus) In the wake of a disaster, the BBB Wise Giving Alliance offers the following tips to help donors decide where to direct donations to assist victims:...
View ArticleCity Approves Contract with Catholic Charities of Baltimore to Operate...
(Source: City of Baltimore, MD) BALTIMORE, MD. (MAY 22, 2013) - Today, the Baltimore City Board of Estimates approved a contract with Catholic Charities of Baltimore to operate and provide shelter and...
View ArticleHomelessness: despair and confusion amid the night shelter funding crisis
The future for housing-benefit funded emergency night shelters for rough sleepers is precarious. So why are ministers so reluctant to intervene to prevent them closing? There's been a reprieve-of...
View ArticleScheme encourages students to donate unwanted items to charity
YORK’S universities have teamed up with City of York Council and the British Heart Foundation to launch a scheme to encourage...
View ArticleSociety of St. Vincent de Paul to Provide Hands-on Disaster Relief for...
MOORE, Okla., May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Society of St. Vincent de Paul (SVdP), one of the largest charitable organizations in the nation, is on the ground in Oklahoma to help provide relief to...
View ArticleObituary: Leo P. Russell / Road contractor who was active in church, charity...
Leo P. Russell, who built his family's paving business, Russell Industries, into a prominent road contracting firm in the Pittsburgh region, but kept a quiet profile through decades of service to his...
View ArticleBusinesses must do their bit
OPINION: I figure if I get Kim Kardashian into a business column I might attract more attention. Okay that is a cheap trick. Strictly speaking it is her professional basketballer brother-in-law Lamar...
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