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• Thousands spend Christmas away from home and rumbling volcano

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 732
  Manila, Dec 25 (DPA) Nearly 50,000 people Friday celebrated Christmas in cramped evacuation centres amid persistent rumblings of a volcano in the eastern Philippines.The evacuees were given food packages by the government and non-government organisations to celebrate the holiday away from home and the restive Mayon ...
  2 days ago

• State Radio Is Calling All Crows For Charity

  
  Look To The Stars News: Latest — Authority: 561
  State Radio frontman and former Dispatch member Chad Stokes took to the stage with “Some Good Friends” this past weekend at Arts at the Armory in Somerville, MA for the second annual Calling All Crows benefit shows. These shows wove together music with a message, celebrating the accomplishments of Calling All ...
  3 days ago

• Kim Kardashian Launches Charity Shoe Initiative

  
  Look To The Stars News: Latest — Authority: 561
  Kim Kardashian has teamed up with 50Kshoes.com’s “Celebrity Charity Challenge” to benefit Soles4Souls , the international shoe charity dedicated to providing free footwear to those in desperate need. “It is an amazing cause. You give money and they help needy people and people in poverty to get shoes,” ...
  4 days ago

• Justin Timberlake Tops Celebrity Givers List

  
  Look To The Stars News: Latest — Authority: 561
  Written by Tim Saunders Justin Timberlake has been named celebrity charity earner of the year, outstripping favorites such as Bono and Oprah . According to website The Daily Beast , the SexyBack singer raised $9.3 million for the Shriners Hospitals for Children in 2009. Second place went to Madonna , ...
  6 days ago

• Cheryl Burke, Filipina American champion of Dancing with the Stars, Dances for a Cause

  
  Filipina Images — Authority: 103
  This Sunday, on December 20, 2009, in San Francisco, California: Cheryl Burke, the Philippine Disaster Relief Coalition, the Philippine Consulate General – San Francisco, Ayala Foundation USA, ABS-CBN Sagip Kapamilya Foundation, and other collaborating friends are coming together with the holiday spirit to “Dance ...
  1 week ago

• Saudi Arabia: The Jeddah Floodings on Video

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 704
  People are still talking about the Jeddah floods and their aftermath, almost three weeks after torrential rain and flooding brought life to a standstill in the western Saudi Arabian city. Internet users are exchanging links to YouTube , showing the extent of the damage, via email. Bobo6699tariq posts this ...
  1 week ago

• People who cheated FEMA are getting caught

  
  Lucrative Investing — Authority: 137
  Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast four years ago this week. It just so happens that people are still getting caught today for trying to trick the government into giving them thousands of dollars for rescue money when they didn’t even have a residence on the coast. Living close to Memphis, when the hurricane hit, ...
  1 week ago

• Disaster in New Jersey? Policyholders to Get Paid Via Prepaid Debit Card

  
  Prepaid Expo — Authority: 114
  Getdebit.com reports that victims of disasters in New Jersey may now get the financial help they need more quickly, thanks to prepaid debit cards issued by The Bancorp Bank, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Bancorp, Inc. The cards will be issed by Bancorp in collaboration with InsurCard.Here’s how the program works. ...
  1 week ago

• Eye on Environmental Security:NATO Says Dont Fight the Planet

  
  The New Security Beat — Authority: 424
  Climate and security are under discussion today in Copenhagen at the Danish governments side event , which brings together heavyweights such as NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt, African Union Chair Jean Ping, and Danish Foreign Minister Peter Stig Møller. Fogh ...
  1 week ago

• Eddie Izzard Encourages Good Health And Fitness

  
  Look To The Stars News: Latest — Authority: 561
  Written by Tim Saunders British actor/comedian Eddie Izzard is using his recent award for the 43 marathons he ran for charity earlier this year to encourage people in the UK get fitter. The star was presented with a special award at the annual BBC Sports Personality of the Year event on Sunday, December ...
  1 week ago

• The Blue Box Solution to a Changing Climate

  
  Twilight Earth — Authority: 128
  The Blue Box company specializes in water purification for rural areas in developing countries and disaster relief. The Blue Box solution from Ann Danylkiw on Vimeo . From Flight to location it can be deployed within 5 days, and the unit can be installed in 7 hours. All the science says that our climate ...
  1 week ago

• George Clooney Presents Jerry Weintraub Humanitarian Award

  
  Look To The Stars News: Latest — Authority: 561
  On December 10, the UNICEF Ball brought together Hollywood’s biggest stars for a fundraising gala to honor those individuals who have made key contributions to UNICEF’s mission to save and improve children’s lives worldwide. The evening raised more money for the organization than any UNICEF Ball to date. ...
  1 week ago

• Oksana Grigorieva Films PSA For Chernobyl Victims

  
  Look To The Stars News: Latest — Authority: 561
  Oksana Grigorieva , the Russian/Ukrainian singer who just gave birth to a baby with Mel Gibson , has filmed a video designed to raise awareness about the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster, and is asking viewers to join her in supporting the Chernobyl Childrens Project International . Today in Ukraine, 6000 ...
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• The tsunami – five years later

  
  East Asia Forum — Authority: 524
  Author: Peter McCawley It is now almost five years since December 2004, when the great tsunami swept across more than a dozen countries in Asia. More than 230, 000 people died across the region. The cost to human life was mainly borne by Indonesia, in Aceh, where perhaps 170, 000 people were swept away. Five years ...
  2 weeks ago

• Disaster relief spending tops $1 billion, less than a third of total approved

  
  Des Moines Register Staff Blogs Iowa Politics Insider — Authority: 138
  Government spending to recover from the flooding and tornadoes that devastated many Iowa communities last year has exceeded $1 billion, state officials said Monday. Still, the spending represents less than one-third of the $3.6 billion in state and federal money already promised to help the state, communities and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ben Stiller Goes Head Band-To-Head Band With Lance Armstrong

  
  Look To The Stars News: Latest — Authority: 561
  Written by Tim Saunders Ben Stiller has gone head-to-head with Lance Armstrong for charity – parodying Armstrong’s LiveStrong Foundation with his own StillerStrong Foundation. The comedy actor is selling headbands for Save the Children , a charity he visited Uganda for earlier this year . “With ...
  2 weeks ago

• Russia: A Bloggers Account of the Rescue Effort in Perm

  
  Global Voices Online — Authority: 704
  At least 109 people died and more than 130 were injured Friday night in a fire caused by the ignition of a pyrotechnic display, and in the resulting stampede, at the Lame Horse nightclub in the city of Perm . In an earlier GV analysis of the citizen and mainstream media coverage of the Perm tragedy , Gregory ...
  3 weeks ago

• CDFI Fund experiences new demand

  
  Bricks and Mortar — Authority: 111
  Demand Up 97 Percent in FY 2010 Round of CDFI Program CDFI Fund Receives 408 Applications Requesting More Than $467 Million Washington, DC – The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI Fund) announced today that it received a total of 408 applications ...
  3 weeks ago

• Also In Global Health News: U.S. Aid To Philippines, Swaziland, Guyana; Uganda Bills; Botswana HIV/AIDS

  
  Information on HPV — Authority: 143
  U.S. To Give Philippines $10M In Food Aid, Ambassador Says U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines Kristie Kenney said the U.S. will give the country an additional $10 million worth of food aid for people affect by the recent typhoons, the Manila Bulletin reports. This brings “the total amount of its ...
  3 weeks ago

• LTTS Exclusive - An Interview With Darren Darnborough

  
  Look To The Stars News: Latest — Authority: 561
  Written by Richard Barker Darren Darnborough is fast becoming one of the UK’s top actors – and his charity work makes him extra special. He was born and raised in England, has appeared on several British television series – including “EastEnders,” “Holby City,” “The Bill,” and “Pie in the ...
  3 weeks ago

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