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This month, Las Vegas will let people pay for parking tickets with a food donation
If you get a parking ticket in Las Vegas over the next month, you will be able to pay off the fine with a food donation, the city council announced on Wednesday.
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How to Vet Nonprofits Before You Give
Using ProPublica’s Nonprofit Explorer and a charity’s own documents, you can make a more informed giving decision.
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Louisville Leopard Percussionists - Crazy Train
The Louisville Leopard Percussionists is a non-profit organization offering extracurricular music opportunities to local children at little or no cost. Please help us keep our program going by donating
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Google Donates $10 Million To Fight Ebola And Promises More
Google has launched a public giving campaign to fight Ebola. It’s matching every dollar donated through its campaign site with two dollars, up to a total of $7.5 million. In addition, the company is donating $10 million straight away to support non-profits including the International Rescue Committee, Medecins Sans Frontieres and Save The Children.
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Why Your Brain Wants To Help One Child In Need — But Not Millions
Why do people sometimes give generously to a cause — and other times give nothing at all? That's a timely question, because humanitarian groups fighting the Ebola outbreak need donations from people in rich countries. But some groups say they're getting less money than they'd expect from donors despite all the news.
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Mark Zuckerberg gives $25M to fight Ebola
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan are giving $25 million to the CDC Foundation to help fight the Ebola epidemic.
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Allen, Microsoft Co-Founder donating $9 million for Ebola Battle
A familiar source stated, the co-founder of Microsoft Corporation, Paul Allen's charitable foundation have announced that he is going to donate $9 million
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Watsi Turns Two
On December 3, 2010, Chase was serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in Costa Rica. A woman boarded a bus he was on and asked the passengers for donations to pay for her son’s healthcare. The experience inspired him to start Watsi, a crowdfunding platform for healthcare, and name it after the town he was traveling through at the time.
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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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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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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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Canada to donate own Ebola vaccine to WHO for use in Africa
Canada will donate a small quantity of an experimental Ebola vaccine developed in its government lab to the World Health Organisation for use in Africa, the country's health minister said on Tuesday. The decision to donate the vaccine came after the WHO said that it was ethical to offer untested drugs to people infected by the virus.
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Bill Nye Asks If E.T. Is Worth A Cup Of Coffee
How much would you be willing to spend to find alien life? As Bill Nye explains in a new video, it might not cost you much more than a cup of java. In the Big Think video, Nye, CEO of the Planetary Society, says that if each American taxpayer contributed the cost of just one cup of coffee, we’d be able to fund an exploratory mission to Europa — a Jupiter moon that some experts consider the likeliest place in our solar system to host extraterrestrial life.
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Tor received $1.8 million in US federal funds last year, while the NSA tried to crack it
One arm of the US government may be trying to crack Tor, but another arm is handing Tor money — a lot of it. As spotted by the Guardian, the anonymous browsing tool Tor is reporting that it received over $1.8 million in federal funds last year, a figure that's gone up 50 percent from 2012. It's ironic news, as the NSA and other intelligence organizations have been attempting to undermine Tor, which is generally able to hide the tracks of someone who uses it while browsing the web.
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Elon Musk Donates $1 Million to New Tesla Museum
For his 158th birthday, Nikola Tesla got a day named in his honor and a new science museum with $1 million in funding from billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk.
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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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The Twisted Business of Donating Plasma
Since 2008, plasma pharmaceuticals have leapt from $4 billion to a more than $11 billion annual market. Donors desperate for the cash incentive from high-frequency "plassing" may be putting their health, and the public's, at risk.
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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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Did Mark Zuckerberg's $100 million really help Newark's schools?
In 2010, Mark Zuckerberg made headlines by donating a staggering $100 million to the Newark public school system — but four years later, how much good has the big-ticket donation actually done?
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The $13 Billion Mystery Angels
Who is funding the fourth-largest charity in the U.S.?
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