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BBC News : North Koreans are voting to elect the country's rubber-stamp parliament, the second such election since Kim Jong-un took power. Voting for the Supreme ... FULL STORY >>
BBC News : One of three men convicted in the 1998 murder of James Byrd Jr, one of modern America's worst hate crimes, has been executed in Texas. Byrd, a black m... FULL STORY >>
John Paulson’s $400 million gift to Harvard University initially attracted a ton of detractors who condemned the hedge fund mogul for his outsized generosity to America... FULL STORY >>
Resources: WBUR
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)
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 multi-millionaire who gave away his fortune to set up a cancer charity split up with his wife of 30 years after falling out over his philanthropy. Brian Burnie, a petrochemicals and recruitment entrepreneur, sold off his... FULL STORY >>
Resources: Elliot Pinkham
BBC News : The indigenous islanders of North Sentinel, among the last of the "uncontacted" tribes in the world, killed 27-year-old John Allen Chau with arrows when he went to their island last week. Police said that Cha... FULL STORY >>
Sightsavers is an association that aims at preventing unnecessary blindness, restore sight, and campaign for the social inclusion and equal treatment of persons with disabilities. Recently, the organization coordinated a phot... FULL STORY >>
BBC News : Charity "Sunshine" Tillemann-Dick, a venerated American opera singer who survived two double lung transplants, has died at age 35. Tillemann-Dick was diagnosed with pulmonary hypertension in 2004, forcing... FULL STORY >>
A Photography Project by Blind People Our modern, mobile, internet connected devices—laptops, cell phones, tablets, etc.—have come to play an increasingly important, now even dominant, role in modern life. The degree to... FULL STORY >>
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