Finnish businessman Gennady Timchenko has not forgotten his Russian roots. In 2010, the energy magnate founded Ladoga, a charitable foundation aimed to support Russian's older generation.Poverty amongst Russian retirees has indeed become a major social challenge and despite...
NBHHCM (National Basketball & Hip-Hop Culture Month) Foundation founder Derrick E. Vaughan is writing an open-letter to all of the hoops & hip-hop community to show respect and to act with maturity and responsibility as America celebrates NBHHCM...
When prominent individuals get old pensioned, they form foundations for humanitarian assistance. Examples are Clinton foundation, Bill Gates foundation, carter foundation, etc. Is it because individuals search for their life after death creating peace with God through helping...
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has handed out its yearly Genius Awards to 24 American geniuses. The 24 individuals are being rewarded for creativity, originality, and potential to make important contributions in the future. Only U.S. citizens and residents...
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A mother of a missing boy, Shawn Hornbeck, was cheerful after hearing about the good news on the missing girl, Jaycee Dugard, walking into a police station 18 years after her abduction. Pam Akers said "I was just...
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"World's first matrimonial site for transsexuals" "Kalki Subramanian is young, liberated and looking for an Indian man who is loving, compassionate, educated. Oh, and one more thing — he should be OK with marrying a transsexual. But Kalki isn’t leaving her...
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The fallout from the Pope's words on condom use last week is starting to reach across the globe. I wonder if the Pope realizes how his words can devastate public health worldwide, and fuel more HIV...
created by Mary Richard | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 345 views | 47 recommendations | 6 comments
New Zealand’s Internet users are fighting against a new law set to tighten copyright restrictions by holding an Internet blackout February 16 to 23. Protesters, led by The Creative Freedom Foundation, claim New...
created by Yuliya Talmazan | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 2604 views | 13 recommendations | 4 comments
How sad!–On an aside, Paul Muldoon, a professor at Princeton University, has been extremely generous in his efforts on behalf of the campaign to save the Hill of Tara, one of Ireland's most important heritage sites, from destruction by developers and speculators. Learn more...
created by Maireid Sullivan | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 178 views | 24 recommendations | 4 comments
President-elect Barack Obama made Hillary Clinton's nomination as Secretary of State contingent on her husband, former President Bill Clinton, revealing contributors to the William J. Clinton Foundation."The world...
Update: Obama confirms Clinton, keeps Gates Live from Chicago : CNN "A Team of Rivals" View interactive Cabinet Secretary of Energy Unassigned...... Obama to remove Combat troops within 16 months from Irak...
created by SOLARLIFE | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 210 views | 11 recommendations | 2 comments
Your podcasting, myspacing, online-gaming, YouTube uploading children are not becoming socially awkward, violence prone loners, but are actually busy learning critical developmental, social and educational skills...
created by Mary Richard | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 1095 views | 5 recommendations | 1 comment
Gifts project for children of MindanaoChildren victims of armed conflict--DSWD secretary"Tulong Para sa Batang MindaNOW" is a brainchild of Ricky Reyes--"Mother Ricky" to many contacted DSWD and Metro Manila...
After a 17-month old baby was found dead and battered, two men have been found guilty of killing the child. The child's mother has already been found guilty."Two men have been found guilty of causing the death of a 17-month-old boy in north London. Jason Owen, 36, from...
created by Dave Keating | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 323 views | 20 recommendations | 2 comments
"As has been reported by a few other gaming blogs and news sites, the Charity Auction at this year's GenCon Indianapolis was held to benefit Gary Gygax's favorite charity, which I will not name here for reasons that will soon become obvious. The fine folks at GenCon raised...
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