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Kate Middleton Quits Job, Gets Ready to Be Full-Time Princess
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsLONDON -- Opening hospitals. Waving at commoners. Attending endless galas. Kate Middleton has many skills to master before joining Britain's royal family, and so with just 94 days to go until her wedding to Prince William, she's quit her day job to get ready for life as a professional princess. Buckingham Palace officials have confirmed that the soon-to-be Mrs. William Windsor has given up her project manager position at her parents' events business Party Pieces and will now "concentrate full-time on preparing to become a member of the royal family." With the unemployment rate in the U.K. ...
Year's End Proves Online Boom Time for Charities
By Susanna Baird - AOL NewsThe mouse-clicking fingers of charitable Americans deserve a rest come Saturday. According to a new study examining online giving, the last two days of December are to charities what Cyber Monday is to online retailers: a major boost to the bottom line. Conducted by online giving platform Network for Good and TrueSense Marketing, the Online Giving Study revealed that charitable giving spikes during natural disasters and during December, with more than 20 percent of the year's online gifts coming in under the wire, on Dec. 30 and 31. While these two unique events spark giving surges, the ...
Facebook Co-Founder Launches Social Network for Good Causes
By Matthew Hall - AOL NewsFacebook co-founder Chris Hughes is only 26 but can already claim to have played a major role in two of the decade's more significant developments. He's hoping his latest project, an online social network aimed at linking individuals with charities and good causes, might again demonstrate that the Internet is not just for procrastination at work or reuniting long-lost friends. Seven years ago, Hughes was hunkered down in a Harvard dorm with friends Mark Zuckerburg, Dustin Moskovitz and Eduardo Saverin as they launched thefacebook.com, an Internet "social network" for university ...
Opinion: Here's a Way to Drive More Donations to Charity
By not in system - AOL News(Nov. 8) -- Among the many casualties of the Great Recession are charitable groups. Last year, for example, donations dropped 11 percent, the largest drop in 20 years, according to the Chronicle of Philanthropy. But as in other areas, this adversity presents an opportunity to create new, more innovative and better ways to encourage sustained giving to charitable causes. I propose a new idea that appears untested: "angel lanes." The idea is simple: Commuters who ride the subway or travel along toll roads with electronic payment systems (like the East Coast EZ Pass) would be given the ...
BBC Apologizes Over Erroneous Live Aid Weapons Story
By Theunis Bates - AOL News(Nov. 4) -- The BBC has been forced to issue an apology for alleging in a succession of reports that millions of dollars raised by the 1985 Live Aid concerts were used to buy arms, instead of feeding the victims of famine in Ethiopia. The British broadcaster said sorry to Irish rocker Bob Geldof, one of the event's organizers, who said he hoped that the apology would help to repair some of the "appalling damage" caused by the claims. The erroneous report, originally broadcast on the BBC World Service in March, claimed that rebel leaders in Ethiopia's hunger-struck northern Tigray province ...
Study: Australia, New Zealand Most Charitable Nations
By Betwa Sharma - AOL News(Sept. 9) -- Australia and New Zealand top a "world giving index" in a new charitable behavior study that finds happier people are more likely to give money than wealthy folks. The United States and Switzerland tied for the fifth spot in the survey, conducted by the U.K.-based Charities Aid Foundation, which assessed countries in terms of money given and time spent by their citizens working for charities. Canada and Ireland tied for the third spot, with the Netherlands coming in seventh, followed by the United Kingdom. Sri Lanka, in the eighth position, was the only Asian country in the top ...
Obama Donates $1.4 Million Nobel Prize To Charities
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyPresident Obama donated his $1.4 million Nobel Peace Prize winnings today to 10 charities, with gifts ranging from $100,000 to $250,000 to groups assisting veterans and minority college-bound students and to Haitian relief. The $250,000 gift went to the Fisher House, which helps families of patients in military or veterans hospitals. The president donated $200,000 to the Clinton-Bush Haiti earthquake relief fund, overseen by the two former presidents, and $100,000 each to two organizations with projects in sub-Saharan Africa, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Obama also donated to groups helping ...
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