Representatives of the famous Starbucks coffee chain have announced a new program for donating unsold food to charity. Starbucks' 7 U.S. cafeterias will now donate their remaining ready-to-eat food to food banks through a new FoodShare program. “No one should go to bed...
Actor and comedian Sacha Baron Cohen and his wife Isla Fisher have donated a significant amount of money to charities that help Syrian refugees. The couple donated half a million dollars to Save the Children, an organization dedicated to protecting children's rights around the world. The fund's employees use the money...
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced that he and his wife Priscilla Chan had a daughter, named Maxima Chan Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg’s post on the social network he created in the first hour of publication collected more than 330 thousand “likes” and 33 thousand “reposts”.…
Major technology corporations such as Google, Amazon and Microsoft have launched a campaign to support Ukrainian volunteers in the United States. Most American corporations encourage their employees to donate money or time to charities. The so-called system of proportionate increase in donor donation is one of the modern instruments in ...
In Lviv, scammers have withdrawn several million hryvnias from a bank client's account. And part of the money was transferred to help children with cancer. In just two operations, 550 thousand hryvnias appeared on the accounts of the fund to help children with cancer. This amount was not transferred to benefactors for everything ...
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey decided to give employees a third of his company shares. Thus, employees will receive one percent of all Twitter shares. Dorsey said he plans to "invest directly in our people." ?⚡️ I'm giving ~1/3rd of my Twitter stock (exactly 1% of…
Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan donated $5 million to scholarships for hundreds of undocumented students. “America was founded as a nation of immigrants. We must welcome smart and hardworking young people from every nation, and to help everyone in our...
A court in Italy ordered actress Ornella Muti to pay a penalty to the Giuseppe Verdi Theater for missing a performance in the amount of 30 thousand euros. As it turned out, on the day of the performance - December 10, 2010 - Muti was in Russia at a charity dinner with the participation of...
The nation's 50 most generous donors together donated $ 9,8 billion last year, up 27,5% from $ 7,7 billion in 2013, according to a new study published by the Chronicle of Philanthropy. And 10 of the most generous US philanthropists donated together ...
Launched in 1990, the Doe Fund has helped thousands of street-stricken New Yorkers get back to their normal lives, or at least make one. Most of them stayed on the streets due to their addiction to alcohol and drugs. The fate of these people, at first ...