Health
Many people already know about the MacArthur Foundation’s so-called “genius” awards. These are grants worth half-a-million U.S. dollars that the charitable foundation give to creative sorts, with no strings attached.
On Wednesday, the philanthropic organization announced that it was giving $350,000 to ARTH, a health nonprofit that works in Rajasthan, to fund its effort to improve healthcare for expectant mothers and reduce deaths from deliveries.
MyNewPlace, one of the nation’s largest apartment and home-rentals websites, today launches MyNewPlace PINK, a nationwide fundraising campaign benefiting The Breast Cancer Research Foundation® (BCRF), an independent, not-for-profit organization dedicated to preventing breast cancer and finding a cure by funding clinical and translational research worldwide. The goal of the year-long campaign is to raise $100K by encouraging MyNewPlace.com users to take an active role in finding a cure during their apartment search by simply clicking, printing and delivering a donation form to a participating community’s leasing office. “We’re grateful for the success we’ve achieved as a company and want
In a statement issued on Sunday, U.S. Navy Capt. Mark Kelly thanked the public for its support and mourned the loss of the six people who had died. He asked that people who wanted to help to consider making donations to two Tucscon charities: Tucson’s Community Food Bank and the American Red Cross.
The effect of his request was immediate. The food bank received more than $5,000 in Internet contributions in 15 minutes.
Community Options, a national nonprofit organization that supports people with disabilities, is working to promote greater health and wellness this Valentines Day. The organization has put together a national 5K Run, Cupids Chase, which will take place in 24 cities across 10 states on February 12, 2011.
Mary Pat Christie, First Lady of New Jersey, is the Honorary National Chairperson of Cupids Chase. Christie is working with Community Options to bring greater awareness to the cause and promote corporate social responsibility and health and wellness.
THE Lee Foundation has given $150 million to Nanyang Technological University's (NTU) new medical school.
Two endowment funds will be established at the school.
Half of the gift - $75 million - is designated for an endowment fund offering student financial aid in the form of scholarships, bursaries and other forms of student financial support. The remaining half will form another endowment fund for the advancement of medical education and clinical research at the medical school.
The Vascular Disease Foundation (VDF) has added mobile giving to its list of donation offerings. The campaign is the first of its kind for VDF and will continue into 2011. All proceeds raised from the mobile giving campaign will benefit those affected by vascular disease.
A San Rafael-based nonprofit that does HIV prevention work abroad may be expanding its programs after receiving a $4 million grant from Google.
Google's sales team awarded the grant to Global Strategies for HIV Prevention "to help with access to vital medication and health services, especially for women and girls, in post-conflict areas of Africa," Google spokesman Jamie Yood said.
The Iowa Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Foundation has received a $5,000 grant from the CJ Foundation for SIDS, the largest SIDS organization in the United States.
Funds will be used for the design and distribution of educational brochures highlighting the American Academy of Pediatrics’ recommendations for safe sleep. Free brochures will be given to educators, health care providers and child care providers across Iowa.
Ever wonder how you can ramp up your charitable-giving efforts? Monica Oxenreiter, a 16-year-old in Pittsburgh, might provide some inspiration. People who give $100 to the nonprofit Oxenreiter started can “buy” their ZIP code — and, on a bright-yellow map on her website that details donations nationwide, that ZIP code turns lime-green.
That’s the ingenious idea behind Oxenreiter’s Zip the Cure, a nonprofit she created to generate contributions for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, or JDRF. See ZiptheCure.com.
For 99.9 percent of the players in the NBA, July 1, 2011 is circled on their calendars as the start of a potential lockout if the player's union and the league's owners can't come to terms on a new collective bargaining agreement before the current one expires on June 30. For Los Angeles Lakers forward Ron Artest, July 1 marks the day he will announce just how much of his 2011-12 salary he will donate to charities to benefit mental health awareness.