charity news stories
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Illinois Deer hunters
donate 72,000 pounds of venison to food banks
Posted by Patriot on March 01, 2007Deer hunters in Illinois donated more than 72,000 pounds of venison to the Illinois Sportsmen Against Hunger (ISAH) Program during the 2006-07 deer season, providing more than 280,000 meals to needy people in the state.
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Male, female students donate
hair to Locks of Love, help cancer patients
Posted by Kristin Hodges on March 01, 2007According to the Locks of Love Web site, www.locksoflove.org, the organization "provides hairpieces to financially disadvantaged children under age 18 suffering from long-term medical hair loss from any diagnosis."
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"Pink Palate" authors donate
best book award to patient support program
March 01, 2007The Pink Palate, a book of recipes by breast cancer patients and survivors. They gave the check over to the foundation after receiving the same amount from the book's publisher, Morris Press Cookbooks
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$1.5M donation created OSF
treatment suite
Posted by Paul Swiech on March 01, 2007Oscar Mandel Cohn donated more than $1.5 million to the Bloomington hospital. Hospital staff used the money to equip its new neurovascular angiography suite.
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Former Elko teacher leaves
donation to Great Basin College
Posted by AP on March 01, 2007Great Basin College will receive about $260,000, thanks to a donation from the estate of a longtime Elko resident, Thelma Trescartes who lived to the age of 101.
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Celebrity charity stirs
controversy
Posted by CARISSA MARSH on March 01, 2007The Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls opened in January. The talk show diva handpicked 152 young girls out of 3,500 applicants to attend her school, just 40 miles south of Johannesburg.
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Charity Hair Event Raises
Money for Cancer
Posted March 01, 2007"To hear that your 8-month-old had stage four cancer is just something that is the scariest thing that you could possibly go through." Fortunately the cancer is in remission. Maura's mom says that's in part thanks to the
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Buying to Donate is (red)icu(less),
Says New .org
Posted by Angela Natividad on March 01, 2007While we see the benefit of turning philanthropy into its own sort of brand in a consumer culture, we can't shake the feeling there's a conflict of interest in blurring the lines between purchase and social responsibility.
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Cross debate costs William
and Mary $12 million donation
Posted by WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) on March 01, 2007A long-time donor to the College of William and Mary will withhold a twelve (m) million-dollar pledge to the public university because the school removed a cross from a campus chapel.
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Holey Soles makes record breaking
donation
Posted by JESSICA GLAVIN on February 28, 2007Canadian footwear company Holey Soles is partnering with Soles4Souls to provide 100,000 pairs of shoes worldwide to people in need.
