charity news stories FEBRUARY
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Charity embezzler sent
to prison
Posted by BBC News on February 20, 2007A former charity worker Neil Gillies who admitted embezzling money from groups supporting suicide awareness and grieving families has been jailed for a year.
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Kelly Osbourne HIV
claim rocks Osbourne Family
Posted by Bang! Showbiz on February 20, 2007Kelly Osbourne, daughter of Sharon Osbourne and rocker Ozzy Osbourne revealed a member of her family has HIV at an Aids charity event in London, but refused to reveal exactly who it was.
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Giving to charity
affects the brain, study finds
Posted by Robert Franklin February 19, 2007It's not just helping the poor, the arts or the church that makes giving to charity feel good. Giving affects the same part of the brain stimulated by sex, drugs and money, say researchers at the National Institutes of Health.
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Tigers' Inge will
donate $100,000 to Children's Hospital
Posted by The Detroit News on February 19, 2007Detroit Tigers third baseman Brandon Inge and his wife, Shani, will donate $100,000 to the University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children's Hospital in Ann Arbor.
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Yahoo
co-founder, wife donate $75 million to Stanford
Posted by Bay City News February 19, 2007Stanford University alumnus and Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang and his wife have donated $75 million to the university, with much of the donation being earmarked for construction of a new environmental studies building.
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Saudi Arabia gives
critical Guinea donation
Posted by WFP on February 19, 2007WFP has thanked the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for a US$1 million donation to its operations in Guinea, where humanitarian needs have been accentuated as a result of the current unrest that comes at a time when many people are struggling with loss of income and growing poverty rates.
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Donation will build archive
room at Josiah Dennis Manse
Posted by Nicole Muller February 19, 2007Harry Van Iderstine, a Dennis native now retired to Florida, has donated $100,000 to the Dennis Historical Society to provide an archive room at the Josiah Dennis Manse in memory of his parents.
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Artist's
donation launches nonprofit Foundation dedicated to Katrina recovery
Posted by John Pope on February 19, 2007TLaunched with a donation of artist LeRoy Neiman's Mardi Gras work worth at least $285,000, a nonprofit foundation has been established by the Rex organization to receive money and award grants to help in the recovery from Hurricane Katrina.
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Image Change for Charity
Chic
Posted by Yorkshire Post on February 19, 2007Wondering what to do with those unwanted Christmas presents? Stephen McClarence reports on the rise of charity shop chic and charity shop tourism.
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Creating T-shirts for Charity
Posted by Amir Rochman on February 19, 2007Artists choose a charity that they want to donate the proceeds to while the Hard Rock Café promotes the T-Shirts. T-Shirts designed by other performing artists have helped raise millions of dollars for their charities and also help build awareness of these charities and causes.
