Celebrity Charity
Beware Celebrity Charities: Madonna’s Raising Malawi School Plans Abandoned
Madonna wants to sue the director of her foundation, Raising Malawi, to recover $3.8 million in squandered donations meant to build a school in the impoverished African country. Staffers of Raising Malawi are suing Madonna for lost wages. But donors like Tom Cruise, Gwyneth Paltrow, Alex Rodriguez and hard-working folks around the globe will have little legal recourse available to them to regain the money they gave to the charity. “It all depends on the restrictions donors... Read More
Corporate Donations
Cargill Makes Biggest Food-Aid Donation to Africa Famine
Cargill is donating about 10,000 metric tons of rice to alleviate hunger in the Horn of Africa in the largest contribution ever from a company to WFP USA, the U.S. advocate for the United Nations World Food Program. The rice, valued at $5 million, was bought in India and is destined for northeastern Kenya, part [...]
Car Donation News
Los Angeles Car Donation Charity
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Philanthropists
David Rubenstein Donates $7.5M for Washington Monument quake repairs
Despite a billionaire history buff’s pledge of $7.5 million to speed up repairs on the Washington Monument, officials say the complex work could last until August 2013 — two years after the landmark was damaged by an earthquake. Businessman David Rubenstein said he was inspired to help fund the repairs to the 555-foot obelisk when [...]
Charity Scams
Fugitive, sham veterans’ charity creator Bobby Thompson, may be hiding out in New Mexico
Time may be running out for the man known as Bobby Thompson, who has been a fugitive from the law for more than a year. The one-time Tampa resident, accused of raising nearly $100 million through a sham veterans charity, disappeared in 2010 just before he was indicted in Ohio on charges of fraud and [...]
