Among anxiety, uncertainty, and fear, there is at least one positive thing many individuals have felt in common during this pandemic: a desire to help somebody.
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(New York Times) — Over the last year or so, there has been an explosion of online intermediaries promising to help nonprofit groups raise money and awareness. Crowdrise, Jumo, Causecast, Causes on Facebook and others try to use social networking and crowdsourcing to build interest in charities and causes, and to help them attract donations. “2010 […]
(NBC New York) — It’s all about the Benjamins, baby. Except maybe when those Benjamins come from the pockets of breast-cancer charities. Two breast-cancer charities are claiming that rap mogul P. Diddy swindled them out of a five-figure sum from a “Pink Party” he hosted that was supposed to raise money for the organizations, according […]
(New York Times) — With the federal government struggling to regain control over the nation’s deficit, a debate is emerging over the charitable deduction and other tax policies that support nonprofit groups. What began as a proposal by the Obama administration in 2009 to reduce the deduction has become a wide-ranging discussion of what was […]
(WGCL) — Two local artists hope their business and unique canvas will inspire others. Two cousins started painting sneakers 10 years ago, and now they’re opening their first store in south-east Atlanta. The “Sneaka-Freaks” hope others will follow their example. Once their business takes, off the cousins want to start a nonprofit organization to teach […]
(Washington Post) — Social entrepreneurs have never been in greater demand, as the world grinds on with tired solutions to seemingly intractable problems such as hunger, poverty, war, inequality and disease. And in theory, social entrepreneurs bring new ideas that challenge the prevailing wisdom that these problems are intractable at all. They are front and center […]
(AJC) — Shaun King may be known as “the Facebook pastor,” but nobody was buying into his idea of using Twitter as a venue to auction off celebrities for charity. “Everybody I told about the idea hated it,” said King, the 31-year-old Atlanta pastor who heads up The Courageous Church in Midtown. “People didn’t think it […]
They're using their celebrity to promote important causes.