Many of the nation’s largest retailers have stepped up their efforts to connect holiday gift buying with charitable causes, reports USA Today. For example, the Target Corporation and the Salvation Army have created an online “wish list” for Katrina survivors and others. The new Internet effort…
Television stations in the Washington metropolitan area have started enlisting local companies as sponsors for their holiday charity fund-raising drives, but critics say the news stations are acting unethically, reports The Washington Post. The broadcasters require their corporate sponsors to buy…
In October, Bruce Wilkinson, a wealthy Georgia preacher, resigned as head of Dream for Africa, a charity in founded in 2002, and abandoned his ambitious plan to help children in the kingdom of Swaziland, reports The Wall Street Journal. Mr. Wilkinson had said his humanitarian effort would become…
Georgia state auditors this week accused the Georgia Water Planning & Policy Center, which is run by Georgia State University, and the Flint River Regional Water Council of misspending $4-million in government money on exhorbitant travel and entertainment expenses, reports The Atlanta…
ST. LOUIS CATHOLIC CHURCH BATTLE
A financial battle between parishioners of St. Stanislaus Kostka Polish Roman Catholic Church, in St. Louis, and the city’s archbishop has led to the excommunication of the church’s six-member board, reports The Wall Street Journal. The archbishop has sought to oversee the church’s property and…
Two Vietnamese immigrants have pledged $1-million to a community college near the Little Saigon neighborhood of Orange County, Calif., a gift that philanthropy experts say demonstrates the growing commitment to charitable giving among the state’s Vietnamese population, reports the Los Angeles…