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ALS group moves to trademark “ice bucket challenge” viral sensation
Unless you've been living in a sensory-deprivation chamber for the past few weeks, you've heard of the "ice bucket challenge" being shown off on all types of social media. People get buckets of ice water dumped on them in order to encourage donations to the ALS Association, the foundation that supports research and care for those living with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a muscle disease that's also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.
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Teenager dies after tragic accident during ice bucket challenge
A teenager has died after joining in a variation of the latest internet craze, the ice bucket challenge. Cameron Lancaster is believed to be the first victim of the trend, in which people film themselves having ice water poured over their heads for charity. The 18-year-old was found dead after jumping into a disused quarry.
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Why the Ice Bucket Challenge is bad for you
The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is bad for you. I don’t mean you will catch a cold (you won’t), or look like a craven sheep (you will). I mean that when you are inspired by a viral fad to donate your limited dollars to a charitable cause, you ignore the diseases that genuinely threaten.
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Ferguson Officer Who Shot Mike Brown to Get $250,000 in Donations
A campaign to support Darren Wilson, the officer who shot six bullets into unarmed Ferguson resident Mike Brown and killed him, has collected nearly a quarter-million dollars in just four days' worth of online donations — and that money will go to Wilson and his family, according to the creators of a controversial fundraising page on the website GoFundMe.
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Ice Bucket Challenge Donations Reach $22.9 Million to The ALS Association
As of Tuesday, August 19, The ALS Association has received $22.9 million in donations compared to $1.9 million during the same time period last year (July 29 to August 19). These donations have come from existing donors and 453,210 new donors to The Association.
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A Compilation Of People Fucking Up The Ice Bucket Challenge
My thoughts on the ice bucket challenge are complicated and not worth going into here. My thoughts on people falling down, bashing themselves over the head, and otherwise harming and embarrassing themselves are much simpler: I am staunchly pro-slapstick.
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This week, let’s dump a few ice buckets to wipe out malaria too
The ice bucket challenge is a symbol for much that’s wrong with contemporary charity: a celebration of good intentions without regard for good outcomes. It is iconic for what I call donor-focused philanthropy—making charitable giving about the giver, rather than about those who need help.
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Friend of Man Who Inspired 'Ice-Bucket Challenge' Dies Celebrating Success
A friend of the man diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig's Disease), who first inspired the viral "ice bucket challenge," drowned Saturday, hours after raising $100,000 for ALS treatment and research.
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We Need To Do Better Than the Ice Bucket Challenge
The Ice Bucket Challenge is problematic in almost every way. It's also raised millions for charity. How can we reconcile those two facts?
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Former Apple employee Sam Sung is cashing in
A man named Sam Sung no longer works for Apple, but he is still looking to cash in on the irony—for charity, at least. Sung, a former specialist at Apple stores in Canada, is auctioning off his viral business card on eBay to help benefit The Children's Wish Foundation, an organization dedicated to improving the lives of children with serious illnesses.
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This Is Why People Are Sending Pictures Of Dead Children To Simon Cowell
Simon Cowell didn’t expect to get pictures of dead children sent to him after donating a large sum of money to an Israeli charity, but the X-Factor judge was given a hard lesson from the other side of the Arabic conflict.
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Google gives lift to S.F. homeless-shower bus
Google helps out a San Francisco nonprofit that's bringing showers to the city's homeless.
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Fake Clothing Drop Bins Use Your “Charity” Donations To Make a Profit
From Tampa to Charlotte to New York City, non-legit Goodwill boxes are proliferating
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A Chinese Real Estate Billionaire Just Donated His Entire Fortune To Charity. Leaving His Kids With Precisely NOTHING.
You've got to admire anyone who goes from being dirt poor to self-made billionaire. BUT! As you are about to see, the story of Chinese real estate mogul Yu Pengnian is EXTRA worthy of admiration. From a penniless rickshaw driver to a real estate magnate in Hong Kong, this 88-year old has lived a full and rich life.
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Algeria will donate their World Cup prize money to the poor in Gaza
Algeria forward Islam Slimani has revealed that he and his team-mates are donating their money to people in Gaza. Slimani, who plays for Sporting Lisbon, said: 'They need it more than us.'
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40 Grade 8 grads get $1.6M in scholarships from anonymous donor
An anonymous donor has given more than $1.5 million to 40 Grade 8 graduates in Leamington, Ont. — and the students were told the same day the historic Heinz plant officially closed and put hundreds out of work.
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Chinese millionaire set for lunch with 1,000 homeless in NYC
A wealthy Chinese businessman who tried to buy the New York Times planned to serve a free lunch to 1,000 homeless people in New York's Central Park on Wednesday with 250 of them dining in the park's Loeb Boathouse restaurant. Chen Guangbiao, who made his fortune in the recycling business, took out newspaper advertisements last week inviting "poor and destitute Americans" to lunch in the park.
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Is For-Profit the Future of Non-Profit?
Charity is for patsies. If you really care about making the world a better place, buy a trendy bag. That was the logic Lauren Bush Lauren articulated in a 2013 interview about FEED, a for-profit entity she founded that creates simple, eco-friendly tote bags whose price covers the cost of donating school meals to children in Rwanda via the UN World Food Program.
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You can't hug children with robot arms
What if instead of donating money to aid organizations abroad, you could actually donate your time and compassion right from home, letting you remotely care for children in war-torn countries? That's what Surrogaid, a new site from the charity War Child, purports to let donors do using pairs of highly controllable robotic arms, allowing them to cook for children, hug them, or rock them to sleep in a crib.
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Wikipedian donates his estate to the Wikimedia Foundation
As he reflected on his life in a video interview with the Wikimedia Foundation on April 29, Jim Pacha beamed and smiled a lot. During the talk, Pacha was reminded of all the remarkable things that happened to him, including highlights in learning and career advancement. Pacha became a senior software engineer at a prestigious aerospace company, even though he never graduated from college.
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