Tag: Giving

WEBWIRE – Thursday, September 21, 2023 Earlier this year, the VMLY&R Foundation celebrated a wonderful milestone, surpassing the $3 million mark in collective charitable contributions since its inception in 2005. This achievement was made possible thanks to the abundant generosity of VMLY&R employees who participate in the U.S. employee giving program through payroll giving. VMLY&R Foundation participants have exclusive access to two primary charitable financial benefits: The opportunity to request an unrestricted financial grant for a nonprofit organization that holds a personal connection for the employee. A $2 to $1 matching gift benefit, effectively tripling the impact of Foundation members ... Read more

 E.J. Wade grew up in South Florida and found an escape through reading “Goosebumps,, a series by R.L. Stine. He used to also take English literature books and Zane books on military deployments to have reading material. But it was a lecture he heard from Professor Stephen Engle of Florida Atlantic University that inspired “Where Jim’s Crows go to Die,” a story of The Great Betrayal, with a protagonist who was erased from history, Ida B. Wells-Barnett. The idea is for people who are incarcerated to be able to take a mental break from being in prison. He hopes to ... Read more

Ocean Partnership for Children’s youth groups are busy spending the holiday season giving back to their fellow youth in Ocean County. OPC’s Game Changers collects toys for families. TOMS RIVER, N.J. – Dec. 21, 2022 – PRLog — This holiday season, the youth groups of Ocean Partnership for Children (OPC) are doing whatever they can to make a difference in the lives of their fellow youth in and around Ocean County. From OPC’s YAS (Your Authentic Self) teen group creating a panel for the National AIDS Memorial Quilt in honor of AIDS Awareness Month to OPC’s Game Changers collecting toys ... Read more

 Buoyed by large donors, as well as donors who were acquired by an organization in 2020 and continued their support in 2021, overall charitable giving increased by 2.7 in 2021, according to the Fundraising Effectiveness Project’s (FEP) Fourth Quarter Fundraising Report. The Fundraising Effectiveness Project (FEP) is a collaboration among fundraising data providers, researchers, analysts, associations, and consultants to empower the sector to track and evaluate trends in giving. The project offers one of the only views of the current year’s fundraising data in aggregate to provide the most recent trends for guiding nonprofit fundraising and donor engagement. The FEP ... Read more

TORONTO, ON, Jan 18, 2022 – (ACN Newswire) – Great Canadian Beaver Club [GCBC], an original and private club with a collection of over 10,420 NFTs, has announced its decision to offer holders of these rare NFT memberships a seat at the owner’s table. Tagged the first community structured NFT platform, GCBC is allowing these holders to sit and speak for the community. The first Canadian club with no borders, GCBC has a clear roadmap first of which includes the launch of its decentralized finance [DeFi] app which will be a free-to-use platform for all ... Read more