NGOs: The Parasitic Altruists

Their arrival portends rising local prices and a culture shock. Many of them live in plush apartments, or five star hotels, drive SUV's, sport $3000 laptops and PDA's. They earn a two figure multiple of the local average wage. They are busybodies, preachers, critics,...

Animal Sanctuary sends out S.O.S.

Source: Los Angeles County Environmental News ExaminerLOS ANGELES, CA -- At a time when millions of Americans are tightening their belts to survive the economic downturn, pleas for charitable donations are...

Charlie Simpson, 7, Raises 72,000Lb For Haiti Earthquake Victims

A seven-year-old boy named Charlie Simpson from London decided to raise £500 but after publicity of his challenge hit local news, he has raises £72,000.  Simpson told his local news, ''I'm cycling five...

New York Homeless Organization Caught in a Fraud Scandal

The United Homeless Organization in New York City has been called a scam because although it takes donations it does not operate any services to the homeless community.  The operation works like this: The orgainizaiton owns hundreds of plastic jugs and tables that they...

United Homeless Organization Caught in Fraud Scandle

The United Homeless Organization of New York City is dealing with fraud accusations from the Attorney General's office.  The claim against them is that for a nonprofit organization they collect a lot of...

Adolf Hitler sex video condemned by Aids charities

" The provocative commercial, which ends with the tag-line "AIDS is a mass murder", aims to scare young people into using condoms by associating the deadly disease with the German dictator. In the...

Could You Be The Face Of The Helipad Appeal?

The County Air Ambulance Trust is appealing for survivors to come forward and become the face of their £10 million Helipad Appeal to provide new or improved helipad facilities at a number of hospitals throughout the Midlands.A new Helicopter Emergency Landing Pad Appeal (H E...

Madoff Scandal Hits Jewish Philanthropy

The collapse of Bernard Madoff's investment group is being called "the atomic bomb in the world of Jewish Philanthropy."  Since Madoff's arrest a number of Jewish charities have suffered hundreds of millions of dollars, according to a December 18 article in the Jewish...

Madoff Fallout Victims Include Pensions and Charities

The Wall Street Journal has published a comprehensive list of banks, companies, non-profit organizations and individuals that are facing losses in a scheme that's rocking the financial world." The fallout from Bernard Madoff's alleged Ponzi scheme reverberated around the...

Prince Harry and Prince William Set Off on 1,000-Mile African Road Trek for C...

HRH PRINCES William and Harry, 26 and 24, have set off on a 1,000-mile trek on bikes across Southern Africa with a group of friends to help raise £300,000 for children's charities.  Prince Harry in...

MPs to vote on smacking ban in UK

The UK parliament is today to consider a measure to ban hitting children as punishment. The bill would give children the same protection against physical assault as adults, eliminating the defense for parents of "reasonable punishment," which allows physical assault against...

Americans Are Most Generous People on Planet

" So the next time some Marxist loving Leftist tries to convince you how evil America or the leaders Americans voted for are just remember the US is the most generous country ever in the civilized world bar none....

Closure of Palestinian Charities: Details Revealed

This past week, I've written about the IDF closing West Bank Charities and an orphanage in Hebron and many of you asked me why. I couldn't answer because the contributing information was given by one-sided sources. Yesterday, Haaretz published an article that discusses the...

4-year-olds sex education probe

The headline makes this more sensational than it is with the emphasis at 4 years old being on building good relationships. Young people tell us that the ins and outs of sex education are pretty well taught but the...

Obama pledges to expand Bush's aid to religious charities

Though President George W. Bush's "faith-based initiatives" - which give government money to religious groups for charity work - have been one of the most controversial programs of his presidency, Barack Obama has pledged to expand them if he is elected president. This...

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