| Sat 28 Jan 2012 |
Naughty Panda presents .. The Spirit Dance : Part I tickets and listings
Skiddle The first of four 'not for profit' parties, with all funds raised going to local charities that offer help and support to people at grassroots level … Part one | Date: Saturday 28th January 2012 | Venue: Dry Live » | Location: Manchester »... |
Does 'E Pluribus Unum' Still Apply to Our Country?
Wall Street Journal | Author Charles Murray asserts that we need to be very worried about the rise of secularism in the U.S. because much of American philanthropy and volunteerism is church-related ("The New American Divide," Review, Jan. 21). While a lot of those good ... |
Cancerous vocal polyp fixed with laser treatment, Miro tells Round Table
Palm Beach Daily News | If there ever was an embodiment of the word “spitfire,” it’s Hermé deWyman Miro, the petite but stubborn philanthropist who won’t reveal her age but stands her ground with the strength and conviction of someone far younger.... |
What You Can Learn From Mitt's Tax Return
Wall Street Journal By LAURA SAUNDERS | How did they do it? | That is the question many Americans are asking of Mitt and Ann Romney's 2010 tax bill, disclosed on Monday evening. While the couple paid almost $3 million in taxes, that amounted to less than 14% of their $2... |
Strangers help break the cycle of poverty
Gulf News | We left London in June 2011. | After travelling more than 9,500km on our bicycles through France, Italy, Albania, Kosovo, Bulgaria, Turkey and Iran, we currently find ourselves in Dubai. We have only about 20,000km remaining until we reach our fina... |
One man's hero is another's charlatan
NZ Herald | Deciding who deserves admiration is a subjective and fraught process. | A reader responded to last week's column questioning the eulogistic treatment given Wellington's late celebrity vagrant Ben Hana, aka Blanket Man, with a pertinent inquiry: who... |
Davos all for frugality - if it's painless
NZ Herald | To the untrained observer Davos man and Davos woman might look the same as ever: well-fitting clothes, mobile phone clamped to ear, iPad affixed to finger, a confident "master-of-the-universe" gleam in the eye. | But something has changed in the Wo... |
Family matters but Schwartz carves her own path
The Australian | CALL her an entrepreneur, philanthropist or networker extraordinaire. Just don't call her Marc Besen's daughter. | At the age of 56, and after a quarter of a century serving on prominent not-for-profit and public company boards and years running on... |
| Fri 27 Jan 2012 |
Lincoln Tells a Story
The New York Times | Disunion follows the Civil War as it unfolded.Tags: | Abraham Lincoln, humor, The Civil War | On Tuesday, Jan. 28, 1862, George Templeton Strong, New York lawyer and philanthropist, and Henry Ward Bellows, Unitarian minister and president of the Un... |
Women's Foundation takes up fight to stop sex trade in teen girls
Star Tribune | Terry Williams stood in front of guests at a swank Wayzata home on a recent evening, carrying a message that wasn't exactly cocktail party fare. Surrounded by lovely furniture and a glowing fireplace, she showed them a gritty film titled "Minn... |
Perelman Loses Court Battle Over $16 Million Suit
The New York Times | 8:58 p.m. | Updated | Ronald O. Perelman, the billionaire financier who has waged many courtroom battles, lost a bitter one on Friday, as a federal jury decided that his company must pay $16 million to a former business associate. | After a little ... |
A giant awakes
Sydney Morning Herald | IT HAS been called a sleeping giant, a vast, secretive organisation that has been forced to live and work underground for most of the past 84 years. But since the fall of Hosni Mubarak's brutal 30-year rule last February, the Muslim Brotherhood has... |
Technology and Philanthropy Merge at Davos
The New York Times FacebookTwitterLinkedinShareShareCloseRedditTumblrDigg | E-mailPrint | DAVOS, Switzerland — Saying there are a lot of rich people in attendance at the World Economic Forum is like noting that there is a lot of water in the ocean. So where there are... |
AdvancED gives Wake schools better marks
The News & Observer Buy Photo Chuck Liddy - cliddy@newsobserver.com "Zombie" Brandon Dupree, left, chases "human" Michael Ramos at a war practice earlier this month. Officials attributed two alerts of men with guns on N.C. State's campus earlier this week to the ongoing... |
DCOTA founder Marvin Danto dies at 95
The Miami Herald | In 1985, Marvin Danto shifted the center of South Florida’s home-furnishings universe from Miami’s Design District to a 44-acre campus in Dania Beach that he called DCOTA: Design Center of the Americas. | He predicted at its opening t... |
Haiti president now says no pardon for Duvalier
Atlanta Journal | PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haitian President Michel Martelly on Friday backed off a suggestion from an interview a day earlier that he might be open to a pardon for former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier. He said he meant only that he wanted an en... |
Dogs as well as humans suffer from white coat fever
The Examiner | Holistic family health practices also apply to the family pet when it applies to white coat fever--fear of being examined by a health professional. In fact in the Sacramento and Davis regional area, the University of California, Davis studies how t... |
Susan G Komen Race for the Cure this Saturday in Downtown West Palm Beach
The Examiner | The Susan G Komen Race for the Cure is being held on Flagler Drive this Saturday, January 28, 2012 in West Palm Beach. It's not too late to join in the fun or to donate, click here! | This is a wonderful annual event that brings a huge crowd of bre... |
Should all politicians release tax returns?
STL Today | I woke up yesterday morning to read that Gov. Mitt Romney paid $3 million in taxes and donated roughly the same amount to charity. I thought, wow, now that's paying your fair share. That's over $6 million, approximately 42% of his income, that he g... |
Corporate Benchmarking Leaders Coming Together to Strengthen Annual Reporting of Giving Trends
PR Newswire Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy's Annual Survey and Report to Be Conducted in Association with The Conference Board | , Jan. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy (CECP) and The Conf... |
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