Stop Her Now, an advocacy group that hopes to block Hillary Clinton from a presidential bid in 2008, has only raised $23,637 since its creation in March 2005, falling behind on its original $10-million goal, reports the New York Daily News. Senator Clinton’s campaign, meanwhile, brought in…
This Sunday, instead of traveling to Detroit to watch her husband coach the Seattle Seahawks in the Super Bowl, Kathy Holmgren will be in Africa on a charity mission with Northwest Medical Teams, the Associated Press reports. The article says Mrs. Holmgren—who will accompany her daughter, Calla, a…
A survey by the Chicago Network, an organization for professional women, found women have been losing ground in the business world, but many hold leadership positions within nonprofit organizations, the Chicago Tribune reports. Women were strongly represented among executives and board members of…
CORPORATE PHILANTHROPY IN CHINA
In recent years, more Chinese companies have become involved in charitable giving, volunteering, and other “corporate-citizenship” activities, reports China Daily. The China National Aviation Holding Travel Service, for instance, recently held a birthday party for eight employees in which staff…
Doctors Without Borders has suspended its operations in the southeastern Pool region of the Republic of Congo following threats against the organization’s staff, reports Medical News Today. In the past two months, the group’s ambulances have been stopped three times by armed men, and on two of the…
The U.S. Congress is following the lead of philanthropists like Bill Gates and carving out a larger share of its foreign-aid budget to fight infectious disease, reports The Wall Street Journal. The federal government is expected to spend $3.65-billion on global-health programs for the fiscal year…
NFL Charities will hold its first bowling fund-raising event this year during Super Bowl week, reports the Associated Press. For the past 20 years, the charity has been raising money through a celebrity golf event, but subfreezing temperatures in Detroit, which is hosting this year’s Super Bowl,…