According to trendspotter Springwise, the Salvation Army has been experimenting with new cashless kettles featuring an attached credit card reader that accepts credit and debit cards and prints a receipt. When the new program launched late last year, cashless kettles were available at more than 300 locations in more than 120 cities across the United […]
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Even the charities are hip to social networking these days. AppScout has a story about how the Salvation Army in Tulsa, Oklahoma, is using Twitter to get toys for needy children. It’s encouraging people to use the hashtag #Tweet4toys in their tweets, and when they do their profile photo will appear on the Tweet4toys.org Web
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According to USA TODAY, a suburban Philadelphia philanthropist who believes charity is a powerful incentive thinks he can help get Americans back to work one donation at a time. Gene Epstein, 71, is promoting a $250,000 effort called Hire Just One, with plans to make $1,000 donations to charity in the name of businesses that
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It’s not every day that an entrepreneur that spends his time bring electricity to remote parts of Africa can spend a year with two Silicon Valley financiers and a retired tech exec. Yet for the 8th year in a row, over 20 social entrepreneurs like that one have been invited to Santa Clara University’s Global
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According to Women’s Wear Daily, 88-year-old Betty White has more street cred than people a quarter of her age. After appearing on “Saturday Night Live” with Jay-Z (and earning the TV show its best ratings in 18 months) and landing a new comedy series called “Hot in Cleveland,” White is launching her own line of
Cullman Times: Maddie, Roy, and Morgan Grimmett have been working hard for the past couple of weeks from 10:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m to supply Cullman residents with lemonade and a smile. Their lemonade stand was custom made by their uncle, Lucas McCollum, and presented to Maddie by her great-grandfather, Roy Drinkard, as an early
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Two mom wanted to help the people around them get unstuck so they started up a small side business to help raise money for flood victims in Tennessee, according to jacksonsun.com. “We wanted to do something for West Tennessee,” Beth Murley said. “There are a lot of fundraisers for Nashville and Middle Tennessee … And
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According to Fast Company, there seem to be as many business models as colors in the rainbow … yet few have the charitable cachet of “Causium.” This is a wildly successful and public-spirited invention by software company Atlassian. Atlassian announced that through their Causium software distribution model they’ve amassed a grand total of $500,000 in
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A lucrative patent or a popular copyright can provide a creator’s heirs with solid streams of revenue for decades. Some great artists and inventors decided that they’d rather give the rights to their best creations to charity, though. Mental Floss takes a look at a few well-known bits of intellectual property that have found their
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