B. Raymond Buxton claimed his prize of $425.3 million at the California Lottery headquarters on April 1 after purchasing a Powerball lottery ticket in Milpitas, California. The Powerball jackpot is the largest jackpot ever won in California, the sixth largest jackpot...
Richard Hudgins, a hair stylist in Louisville, Kentucky, is going barefoot for a full year to raise money for children in Kenya who do not have shoes. Hudgins has made it through a brutal winter consisting of several days of snow, ice, and below-freezing temperatures...
Mark Zuckerberg, founder of the social networking site Facebook, and his wife, Priscilla Chan, donated $992.2 million to the Silicon Valley Community Foundation in Mountain View. The donation granted the couple the top spot among the most generous Americans in 2013. ...
As a nonprofit leader, it is your job to make sure your organization’s mission statement is clear, concise and relevant. You also have to make sure that the general public is aware of your cause and understands why they should support your organization. The only way...
According to an article on Spear’s, Bill Gates has been donating huge sums of money to large organizations for quite sometime now. The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation aims to help organizations that are “committed towards eradicating poverty,...
According to an article, over $28 million has been raised by various charities for the Sandy Hooky families affected by the December 14 school shooting in Newton, Connecticut. The recent survey conducted by the state attorney general’s office involved 63...
John Jellinek is the President of the private equity investment firm Jelco Ventures Inc. He has been apart of more than 50 investment transactions over the years. Out of the office, John Jellinek is an advisor and major donor to numerous foundations and charities.
