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Articles
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Causecast nominated for a 2009 Webby Award!
The Webby Awards have nominated Causecast in the Charitable Organizations/Nonprofit category. We're up against some stiff competition and need your help to win!
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Bill Gates Gives $168.7 Million To Help Find A Malaria Vaccine
Bill Gates recently gave $168.7 million to help research a malaria vaccine. This is all part of a $3 billion plan to cure the biggest killer in Africa. “Now ... -
Big Players Scale Back Charitable Donations
The pipeline from corporate America to the nation's charities is starting to dry up, as losses in the stock market mount and the U.S. recession deepens.
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Performance Learning Centers from Across the Country Honored With Inaugural Award for Excellence
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Time's Top 10 Green Stories Of 2008
Time recently came out with a top 10 list of the top green stories of 2008. Can you guess what number 1 is?
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Malaria Vaccine May Be Available In 2012
A vaccine against the parasitic disease malaria cut illnesses by more than half in field trials and could be safely given with other childhood inoculations...
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Gates Grants Aim to Help Low-Income Students Finish College
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced nearly $70 million in grants as part of an ambitious initiative: to double the number of low-income students.
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Obama Pledge Stirs Hope in Early Education
It was the morning after the presidential election, and Matthew Melmed, executive director of Zero to Three, a national organization devoted to early...
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Child Maid Trafficking Spreads From Africa to US
Late at night, the neighbors saw a little girl at the kitchen sink of the house next door. They watched through their window as the child rinsed plates under...
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Nkunda and I: My Day With The Charismatic Congolese Warlord
Less than a year ago, at 25 years old, I went deep into the war-zone on a motorcycle to meet Nkunda. This is my story from that day.
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Davos Notes: Contrition, Paralysis, and the Embrace of Faith and Philanthropy Take Hold
The embrace of philanthropy has also infused much of the conversation at Davos.
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An Ounce of Prevention: Helping the World's Poor Prepare for Disaster
$5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation fosters collaboration between six major humanitarian agencies.
Events
- March 21 Protest in LA: Stop the Wars, Fund People's Needs Location: March 21, 12 noon, Hollywood & Vine, L.A.
Blog posts
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People are Talking about Child Survival
Bill Frist Former Senate Majority Leader and chair of Save the Children’s Survive to 5 Campaign: "When children die needlessly, we have a moral and humanitarian imperative to act. Our nation ha...
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END WORLD POVERTY AND INEQUALITY
THINK.MTV.COM & MTV NETWORKS TO WORLD PREMIERE WILL. I. AM’S NEW VIDEO INSPIRED BY GLOBAL INITIATIVE Celebrities Band Together to End World Poverty and Inequality in “In My Name” ...
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Here is the link for the story at Reuters http://af.reuters.com/article/drcNews/idAFLN34164620090123 Please read my friend Seans encounter with Nkunda in the DRC before he started his organi...
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Fighting Malaria with an MBA: A New Business Plan
Last week, I went to the San Diego State University for their annual Sports MBA Case Competition. Some of the best young sports business minds from across the country put their classroom skills to ...
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Undo the Coup Posted on Jun 30, 2009 By Amy Goodman The first coup d’etat in Central America in more than a quarter-century occurred last Sunday in Honduras. Honduran soldiers roused ...
