Buy a Pink Rubber Duck
October 31, 2007
Support the Project Pink Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign.
Basic ducks go for $2.95.
Celebrity-designed ducks go to the highest bidder.
100% of net proceeds go to Susan J. Komen for the Cure.
Buy a duck at www.munchkin.com/projectpink
This year’s campaign message: Don’t Duck a Breast Exam.
Polly Pocket Philanthropy
October 30, 2007
A Rumer Willis Polly Pocket doll garnered $5500 for the Children Affected by AIDS Foundation at the Dream Halloween Benefit auction in Santa Monica last weekend.
Every Nip of Niceness Counts
October 29, 2007
“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is every wasted.”
—Aesop
Why Bald Billionaires Give
October 26, 2007
“Philanthropist. A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.”
— Ambrose Bierce
$9 Million Raised for Agassi Prep
October 9, 2007
…at this year’s Grand Slam for Children in Las Vegas. The Andre Agassi College Preparatory Academy (AACPA) is a model charter school that offers academic programs designed to enhance at-risk children’s character, respect, motivation and self-discipline. Students are admitted via lottery.
Find out who was there in the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Jolie-Pitt Foundation Gives a Mil to Darfur
October 4, 2007
UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie and actor Brad Pitt have donated $1 million to assist the two-million-plus displaced people within Darfur and the 1/4 million Darfur refugees in camps in neighboring Chad.The donation will go to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), the International Rescue Committee and SOS Children’s Villages.
Live & Learn
October 2, 2007
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
—Mohandas Gandhi (October 2, 1869 – January 30, 1948)
Please Pass the Kindness
October 1, 2007
“The point is not to pay back kindness but to pass it on.” —Julia Alvarez
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