Showing posts with label charity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label charity. Show all posts
Friday, August 9, 2024

The Mariners set up a reverse signing event at the Seattle Children’s Hospital so the players could receive items signed by the kids

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Wednesday, February 1, 2023

Organization benefiting people with intellectual disabilities was created as a "cover" for a group practicing "spiritual direction with nudity and sexual touch"

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Background from the founder's Wikipedia page : In 1964, through [the founder's] friendship with a priest ..., he became aware of the...
Wednesday, March 2, 2022

Update on Jose Andres's World Central Kitchen in Ukraine

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This is true bravery & courage…I am in awe of these heroes in Kharkiv! One kitchen is only 500 meters from where the missile hit yesterd...
Monday, February 7, 2022

"how Brad Pitt’s post-Katrina housing project went horribly wrong"

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Guardian : The project seemed cutting-edge, if not utopian. Architects like Frank Gehry, David Adjaye and Shigeru Ban helped design the hous...
Sunday, September 1, 2019

Jose Andres is in the Bahamas with plans to provide emergency meals

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How do we organize a response in Bahamas? Here’s our current map we are working from.... @WCKitchen has kitchens ready to go and shelters...
Friday, July 19, 2019

"The Alaska village where every cop has been convicted of domestic violence"

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Anchorage Daily News : Next is a class of cops unique to Alaska: village public safety officers (VPSOs), who are nearly as well-trained as...
Wednesday, December 5, 2018

"How 2 New Yorkers Erased $1.5 Million in Medical Debt for Hundreds of Strangers"

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NYT : Last spring, Judith Jones and Carolyn Kenyon, both of Ithaca, N.Y., heard about R.I.P. Medical Debt, which purchases bundles of past...
Thursday, April 12, 2018

"The smaller populations of shelter dogs make it harder for some rescue groups, especially those dedicated to specialty breeds, to find what adopters want"

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WaPo : An effort that animal rescuers began more than a decade ago to buy dogs for $5 or $10 apiece from commercial breeders has become a ...
Saturday, September 23, 2017

"Tumult After AIDS Fund-Raiser Supports Harvey Weinstein Production"

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NYT : In May 2015, the entertainment producer Harvey Weinstein arranged for two items to be auctioned off at a fund-raiser for amfAR, a Ne...
Wednesday, October 8, 2014

Pink drill bits to fight breast cancer

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Not a hoax ... For the second consecutive year, Baker Hughes is donating $100,000 to support Susan G. Komen®, the world’s leading breast...
Friday, February 13, 2009

823KEYPROJECT

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The plan is to sell 823 vintage skeleton key/necklaces and then use the proceeds to fund an artist. And then start selling another 823 an...
Thursday, May 1, 2008

Lockpicking Hamster

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I've previously mentioned the upcoming benefit Dungeons & Dragons (With Girls!) . As part of the benefit, you can donate money to ...