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Apple's Tim Cook to donate his fortune to charity
Apple CEO Tim Cook is going to give away his entire fortune multi-million dollar fortune to charitable causes.
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Apple boss Tim Cook 'to donate millions' to charity
Apple CEO Tim Cook says he will give away most of his $800m (£537m) fortune to good causes before he dies.
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Why the Rich Don't Give to Charity
When Mort Zuckerman, the New York City real-estate and media mogul, lavished $200 million on Columbia University in December to endow the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, he did so with fanfare suitable to the occasion: the press conference was attended by two Nobel laureates, the president of the university, the mayor, and journalists from some of New York’s major media outlets.
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Men Strive To Give More To Charity When The Fundraiser Is Cute
If you're wondering how to get more people to contribute to your online charity drive, consider a photo of you smiling. Even better if you're an attractive woman. Biology is to blame, researchers say.
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Get Drawn Into an Episode of The Simpsons
Want to get drawn into an episode of The Simpsons? Here's your chance to win and support a great cause!
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You have $8 billion. You want to do as much good as possible. What do you do?
Inside the Open Philanthropy Project, the group tasked with giving away Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz's massive fortune.
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The Clintons, a luxury jet and their $100 million donor from Canada
Bill Clinton was planning a charity trip to Latin America and needed a big plane. For Frank Giustra, who had never met the former president, this was an opportunity. The Canadian mining magnate and onetime Hollywood studio owner stepped up to let the former president borrow his luxurious passenger jet. There was just one condition: Giustra would come along for the ride.
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Man Biking His Way to All 30 MLB Stadiums
Matt Stoltz has set an ambitious goal for a good cause. The Wisconsin native is currently bicycling to all 30 Major League Baseball stadiums, an 11,300 mile cross-country ride. The 22-year-old hopes to raise around $100,000 for Biking for Baseball.
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Millions donated for cancer patients spent on gym memberships, luxury cruises, federal lawsuit alleges
A Tennessee man and his family who collected $187 million through charities promising to help cancer patients spent much of the money on themselves, from luxury cruise vacations to college tuition for their children, according to a federal lawsuit. The lawsuit, filed by the Federal Trade Commission and attorneys general nationwide, named The Cancer Fund of America in Knoxville, Tennessee, and its affiliated Cancer Support Services...
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The Seedy, Profitable World of Scam Charities
In 1984, the American Cancer Society forced James Reynolds out of a job. He had led the respected organization’s Knox County, Tennessee, office, but ACS accused him of sloppy record-keeping and of stealing a vintage car donated for an auction. Reynolds was apparently undeterred. He promptly opened up a new charity, giving it a name that was shamelessly similar: the Cancer Fund of America. He’d go on to found several other similar charities.
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'They would call me a girl': Boy, 8, grows out hair for a good cause
Eight-year-old Christian McPhilamy grew out his blond hair for more than two years so he could donate it to kids who have lost their locks.
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Red Cross Spent Half a Billion Dollars to Build Six Homes in Haiti
Despite taking in more than $500 million in donations, the Red Cross has only built six houses in Haiti. The American Red Cross raised more than half a billion dollars to bring relief to Haiti after the devastating 2010 earthquake there, but it grossly overstated what the money bought. Although the organization claimed to have provided housing to more than 130,000 people, it actually only built six permanent homes, according to a report by ProPublica and NPR.
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Students Celebrate Graduation With Random Acts of Kindness
With $400 in hand and a stack of note cards explaining their intentions, a group of eight eighth-graders from St. John the Baptist-Gildehaus School in Villa Ridge went around Washington Friday, May 22, performing random acts of kindness as a way to celebrate their graduation.
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A chinese businessman is paying $2.35 million to eat lunch with Warren Buffett
The auction has gotten progressively more expensive.
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Tesco trials app for donating unsold food to charity
It's strange to think that in an affluent nation like the UK, there are people going hungry while shops and eateries throw out masses of perfectly good food every day.
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The Most Efficient Way to Save a Life
Inspired to make a meaningful donation, I wondered: What is the best charitable cause in the world, and was it crazy to think that math and logic could help me find it?
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Girl Scouts Looking for $100K After Donor Says They Can't Use Gift for Transgender Girls
So the organization gave the money back. And now they want your help.
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Vodafone 'Instant Classroom' is digital school in a box for refugees (Wired UK)
The Vodafone Foundation has unveiled a portable "Instant Classroom" that it hopes will give 15,000 child refugees across Africa access to tablet-based education.
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The Logic of Effective Altruism
Opening the Debate: Peter Singer. Responding: Daron Acemoglu, Angus Deaton, Jennifer Rubenstein, Larissa MacFarquhar, Leila Janah, Emma Saunders-Hastings, Rob Reich, Paul Brest, Iason Gabriel, András Miklós, Catherine Tumber. Reply: Peter Singer.
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European Parliament urges donation of supermarket leftovers
The European Parliament on Thursday (9 July) urged EU countries to cut down on waste by getting supermarkets to give their unsold food to charities, rather than destroy it.
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