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
TAX DEDUCTIBLE Charity Car Donation Los Angeles – 888-228-7320 Online Car Donation has been a leading car donation charity in Los Angeles for over a decade. With good reason, Los Angeles is the largest metropolitan center in all of California. Owning a car is indispensable, which creates a lot of demand for new cars and [...]
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
Navy Vets Scammer Bobby Thompson FINALLY arrested
A man featured on “America’s Most Wanted” suspected of stealing millions of dollars meant for U.S. Navy veterans has been arrested in Portland. Thompson was arrested on Monday evening and booked into the Multnomah Co. Jail, where he is being held without the possibility of bail. He is in federal custody of the U.S. Marshals [...]
