Eagle Rare Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey has named Tonya M. Evans of Lawrence, Kansas as the winner of the Grand Prize 2013 Rare Life Award. Eagle Rare will donate $30,000 to Evans’ charity, American Fallen Warrior Memorial Foundation (www.afwmf.org). Evans, who founded the charity in March 2011, is in the process of raising funds to establish a 20-acre, $30 million memorial honoring the memory of all military personnel lost since the first Gulf War and in Operations Desert Storm, Desert Shield, Iraqi Freedom, Enduring Freedom and all peripheral operations in the war on terror.
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The AMWAY ONE BY ONE® Campaign for Children is marking its 10th anniversary with a remarkable accomplishment – helping 10 million children live better lives.
Amway has been committed to providing people around the globe with hope and opportunity for more than five decades. In 2003, Amway chose to focus its charitable efforts on the single global social cause of helping children live better lives by harnessing the power of interpersonal and business relationships made possible by Amway distributors and employees.
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http://www.charity4couture.com Hello
Lovelies! I’m Nancy Li, founder of Charity4Couture; a nonprofit
organization that takes donated clothes, refurbishes them (such as
studding, cutting, sewing, etc.), and then sells them on my website.
Best of all, proceeds will be donated directly to St.Jude\\\'s Research
Hospital and the Hirshberg Foundation.
http://www.indiegogo.com/fundcharity4couture
At 104 years old, Edythe Kirchmaier has been serving others for more than a century, 40 years of which have been as a volunteer with Direct Relief International. As Edythe approaches her 105th birthday, she hopes to inspire the world to make a difference, as she has, by raising awareness for the charity to which she’s dedicated much of her life, Direct Relief. To honor Edythe and celebrate her milestone birthday on January 22, 2013, Direct Relief has created the world’s largest (virtual) birthday cake, a Facebook application called Edythe’s 105th Birthday Challenge, which will enable the world to light a candle and wish Edythe a happy birthday.
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Restaurants and chefs with roots in both New York City and Las Vegas have inspired a unique food and wine event to benefit victims of Hurricane Sandy: “Start Spreadin’ the News.” The event will take place Sunday, December 9 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the Brooklyn Bridge at New York-New York Hotel & Casino on the famed Las Vegas Strip.
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Sharpie® delivered a giant fan “hello” to One Direction along with a big heartfelt “thank you” to a special New Jersey teen during an event yesterday to officially welcome One Direction to their upcoming US Tour.
Sharpie, a sponsor of the first leg of the 1D tour, invited a select group of teens to offer up a giant-sized hello to the global music superstars. Fans packed an event in midtown Manhattan to deliver a one-of-a-kind hello to Harry, Liam, Louis, Niall and Zayn They created posters, signed welcome walls, and offered video-captured hellos to be delivered to the boys later in a fan video mash-up.
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A glamorous soirée in the iconic Cullman Hall of the Universe on Central Park West was the setting of a star-studded charity drive by luxury Swiss watchmaker TAG Heuer and its Hollywood brand ambassadors Cameron Diaz and Leonardo DiCaprio.
The exclusive event, held below the dramatic glass-cubed planetarium sphere in the American Museum of Natural History, brought together NY and Hollywood celebrities, business, fashion and media leaders from around the world and key figures of the international jet-set for a double-pronged charity push: to raise funds for the victims of Hurricane Sandy, and raise awareness for gender equality and the empowerment of women worldwide.
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To help combat an increasing trend in festive isolation, charity Abbeyfield today launches a nationwide campaign, Companionship At Christmas, to create an alternative to spending the celebratory period alone. The charity is offering free overnight stays and delicious Christmas lunches over the festive season (24th December – 4th January) in over 100 Abbeyfield sheltered houses and care homes. The Charity will take enquiries from now until December via their website or via their dedicated telephone number 0845 052 3553 up until the 18th December.
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Akshaya Patra expanded its operations. We began in August 2003 in the holy city of Vrindavan. In keeping with the regional preferences of the children in the area, a roti machine which makes 40,000 rotis per hour
Akshaya Patra Foundation Bangalore kitchen providing Mid Day Meal to unprivileged childrens. Akshaya Patra Foundation in Bangalore and NGOs in Karnataka
The Akshaya Patra Foundation, NGO in India, runs one of the worlds largest mid day meal program. This video shows the operations as well as the feeding of the children
