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On a Continental Road Trip to Promote Volunteerism With 50Give
By Jane Healey - AOL NewsA couple of days ago, Keith Donohue was building trail signs for Acadia National Park in Maine. Today he is working at a horse therapy program for autistic children in Vermont. Tomorrow he will be helping out at the Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf. It is all part of his one-man, cross-country volunteer road trip adventure called 50Give. Donohue is more than halfway to his goal of volunteering for nonprofit organizations in all 50 states; Washington, D.C.; Mexico; and Canada. "I decided to do this after changing career paths," Donohue told AOL News. "Basically I want to encourage ...
Closed on Mondays Opens Restaurant Doors to Nonprofits
By Rebecca Delaney - AOL NewsChef Aliza Miner found inspiration in a day off. Canele, the Los Angeles restaurant where she runs Sunday brunch, closes on Mondays -- leaving stoves unused and a dining room empty. Miner saw these shuttered Mondays as an opportunity to raise money for local nonprofits. ClosedonMondays.com Closed on Mondays raises money for food-based nonprofits by holding fundraising dinners during a restaurant's off hours. Miner had investigated volunteering for nonprofits that work with food, but she couldn't find an effective way of helping. "These groups were all doing great things, but ...
Lowe's Giving $1 Million to Green Charities
By Susanna Baird - AOL NewsLowe's is giving green to the green. The Fortune 50 home improvement chain will award $100,000 grants to four environmentally focused nonprofits and will give an additional $600,000 to the organizations, to be distributed according to voter response. Visitors to Lowes.com/give and Lowe's Facebook page will vote between now and Jan. 21 to decide which organization receives what proportion of the $600,000. "We wanted to make sure that each charity got something, so that's why we decided to give them $100,000," said spokeswoman Katie Cody. She told AOL News that the four organizations' missions ...
Women Candidates in Afghanistan Travel a Dangerous Campaign Trail
By Heather Somerville - Politics DailyAfghan women running in the country's parliamentary elections in September face security threats that make campaigning difficult, and at times impossible. Female candidates have reported receiving verbal threats and "night letters" from the Taliban that threaten violence if they don't stop their efforts, according to nonprofits working in the country. The threats haven't discouraged women from running for office, though. Of the 2,550 candidates in the country's second-ever parliamentary election, 406 are women. "The women who are brave enough to do this thing -- it's sort of a self-selected ...
Think Before You Plunk: Which Charity Will Use Your Haiti Donation Wisely?
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyCompassion and concern for the victims of Tuesday's earthquake outside of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, has prompted caring people to make donations to assist in their aid. I had planned to write a quick post discouraging donations to big, bloated, bureaucratic charities with overpaid CEOs and marketing budgets more appropriate for multinational oil companies than nonprofits. ...
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