Friday, Nov 01, 2024 01:27AM
Sightsavers is an organization that aims at preventing avoidable blindness, and advocates for the social inclusion and equal treatment of people with disabilities. The co... FULL STORY >>
Franklin Graham is the son of famed evangelist Billy Graham and heads both the Billy Graham Evangelism Association and the international humanitarian and health aid group... FULL STORY >>
Resources: Deseret News
BBC News : German police probing the deaths of three people shot with crossbow arrows in a rural Bavarian hotel near Passau have found two more female bodies in a f... FULL STORY >>
Bethany Heinrich, Executive Director and Co-Founder of the fashion-oriented cancer charity Fabulous & Fighting, has always had an entrepreneurial and creative spirit. A graduate of the University of Michigan and Juilliard, sh... FULL STORY >>
Resources: www.forbes.com
The world united in outrage in April 2014 when news broke that nearly 300 girls had been snatched in the night from their school in northeastern Nigeria by the terror group, Boko Haram. In the ensuing pandemonium, vast nation... FULL STORY >>
Resources: France24
BBC News : A man who suffered "horrendous injuries" when he was shot with a crossbow has died in hospital. Gerald Corrigan, 74, was struck outside his home on South Stack Road, Holyhead, on 19 April at 00:30 BST. No... FULL STORY >>
BBC News : China has sentenced prominent human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang to four and a half years in prison for state subversion. Wang, 42, had defended political campaigners, victims of land seizures, as well as ... FULL STORY >>
UBAI, United Arab Emirates, June 11, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Sightsavers (http://www.sightsavers.org/ and http://www.sightsavers.net/[middle_east]/sightsavers_middle_east/default.html) is pleased to announce that Her Highness Sh... FULL STORY >>
Resources: www.prnewswire.com
NEWARK, N.J. — When Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg appeared on Oprah Winfrey’s show five years ago this week to announce a $100 million donation to remake education in Newark, it was presented as an effort to make a str... FULL STORY >>
Resources: By Geoff Mulvihill
A “Philanthropy Innovation Summit” is being held at Stanford University later this month, but you almost certainly can’t attend, unless, that is, you are in the super-exclusive club of “individual and family philanthr... FULL STORY >>
Resources: Stanford University (AP)
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