California Man Wins Big and Gives Back
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...
Going Barefoot for Charity
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...
Zuckerberg and Wife are the Biggest Donors to Charity in 2013
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. ...
What Increasing Online Presence Can Do for Your Charity
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...
Biggest Bill Gates Donations
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, establishing good...
Charities Raise Millions for Sandy Hook
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 charities. Of...
Affordable Smartphone for Emerging Markets
According to a New York Times article, Motorola, which is owned by Google, will be releasing a new smartphone that is geared to emerging markets. Motorola is now another company that is trying to appeal to people with lower incomes. With sales for Motorola's Moto X...
Las Vegas is New Tech Start-Up Hub
According to a Business Insider article, Las Vegas is becoming more of an attractive destination for tech start-ups. Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh definitely wants that to be the case after he invested $350 million of his own money to move Zappos to downtown Las Vegas. Mr....
What Will Be The Impact Of Ads On Instagram?
After a successful quarter of advertising revenue for Facebook, the company will be looking to have a similar effect on Instagram. An article on Entrepreneur posses the pertinent question of advertising on Instagram and whether it will impact user experience. Since it...
Imaging Sharing For the Web
I came across an article recently in Forbes that talked about an entrepreneur who thought of an idea and ran with it. John Saddington is an avid photographer and he continually takes images with his Iphone like many people do. He is familiar with the Instagram...