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unusual facts about Charity


Briarcliff Middle School

The club runs an annual Charity: water fundraiser, and the club has held coat drives, provided relief for Hurricane Sandy victims, and organized a holiday boutique to raise money for the American Cancer Society.


All Hands Together

Recorded in Tennessee, USA, it was a gospel-inflected, adult contemporary-styled charity single and her tribute to the victims of Hurricane Katrina, with the proceeds of the single going to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Awareness ribbon

The purpose of Christian Action on AIDS, an official Church of England charity whose founder/chairman was Barnaby Miln, was to get the worldwide Christian churches involved in the crisis that was AIDS.

Barton Family Foundation

Although the foundation made no direct gifts to that charity, Energy Future Holdings and BNSF Railway gave $35,000 in the foundation's name.

Bath Preservation Trust

The Bath Preservation Trust is an independent charity based in Bath, Somerset, England which exists to safeguard the historic character of the city of Bath, the only complete city in the UK that (along with its environs) is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and to champion its sustainable future.

Bayley Seton Hospital

In 2000, Sisters of Charity turned over Bayley (along with their main Staten Island hospital) to Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Center, itself the Manhattan and Westchester County New York's Sisters of Charity run hospitals, to create Saint Vincent's Catholic Medical Centers New York.

Ben Uri Gallery

The Ben Uri Gallery, incorporating the London Jewish Museum of Art (self-described also as The Art Museum for Everyone), is a registered museum and charity currently sited at 108a Boundary Road, off the famous Abbey Road in St John's Wood, London, England.

Catch Me Who Can

A replica is under construction by the Trevithick 200 charity at the Severn Valley Railway workshops, close to the site where the original locomotive was built.

Cathy Tyson

The event, organised by Friends of Eckersley House, a committee supporting the charity's Leeds house, was held at the Haven Golden Sands resort in Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire.

Center for High Impact Philanthropy

The Center for High Impact Philanthropy has been mentioned twice on the blog of charity evaluator GiveWell.

Centre for the Moving Image

The Centre for the Moving Image (CMI) is a registered charity incorporating Edinburgh International Film Festival, Edinburgh Filmhouse and the Edinburgh Film Guild.

Craig Phillips

He was one of the Lord Mayor of Liverpool's chosen charity ambassadors (alongside footballer Kenny Dalglish and musician Gerry Marsden) assisting at events throughout Liverpool's European Capital of Culture 2008.

Disability Challengers

Initially sessions for the children were held at a local leisure centre in Guildford, Surrey, but the need for services quickly grew and in 1984 the charity opened their first custom designed Playcentre on Stoke Park, Guildford.

Edward Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh

Iveagh also donated £250,000 to the Lister Institute in 1898, the first medical research charity in the United Kingdom (to be modelled on the Pasteur Institute, studying infectious diseases).

Elizaveta Polonskaya

On her final return to Petrograd in the spring of 1917, she had little time for either politics or literature; to support her family, which was in dire straits after her father's death, she took a job as assistant to a municipal charity doctor on Vasilyevsky Island, and was merely a spectator when the October Revolution occurred.

Everdon

Nearby The Stubbs is a wood belonging to the Woodland Trust, a UK conservation charity.

Franz Fuchs

Other mailbombs which were discovered and neutralized were targeted at Helmut Schüller (humanitarian organisation Caritas), the Green politicians Madeleine Petrovic and Terezija Stoisits, Wolfgang Gombocz and Minister Johanna Dohnal.

Galapagos Conservation Trust

Ambassadors for the charity include Janet Barber, Sir James Barlow, 4th Baronet, Angela Darwin, Sarah Darwin, Julian Fitter, Monty Halls, Randal Keynes, Dorothy Latsis, Godfrey Merlen, Henry Nicholls, Nigel Sitwell, Antje Steinfurth, Jennifer Stone and Ian Swingland.

GiveWell

Charity evaluator and effective giving advocacy group Giving What We Can had multiple blog posts with critical analysis of GiveWell's 2012 recommendations.

Gordon McVie

He was Director General of Cancer Research UK (CRUK), the largest cancer charity in the UK, from 1996 to 2002.

Grace Woodward

Woodward has also done styling for charity, helping climate change organisation Global Cool with their Turn Up The Style, Turn Down The Heat campaign.

Hand on Your Heart

On its third week it was replaced on the top of the chart by the UK Hillsborough disaster charity single "Ferry Cross the Mersey" by The Christians, Holly Johnson, Paul McCartney, Gerry Marsden and Stock, Aitken and Waterman.

Healing the Wounds

Since Healing the Wounds' foundation, the charity campaigned to raise funds to purchase and maintain a convalescent home based at Golden Grove Mansion in Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire.

Helen Zerefos

Zerefos is also a tireless charity worker for the Ageing Research Centre at Sydney’s Prince of Wales Hospital.

Hugh Coveney

The family sailed around the world to raise €650,000 for the Chernobyl Children's Project, a charity which offers assistance to children affected by the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.

Isabel Larrañaga Ramírez

She is the foundress of The Sisters of Charity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.The actors for her cause is Hermanas de la Caridad del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús of Spain.

JK and Joel

In January 2006, the duo won a "celebrity pairings" edition of The Weakest Link, raising £12,900 for the Five Stars Scanner Appeal, a children's charity they had supported while working in Manchester.

Johann Löwenthal

Lord Randolph Churchill and many others contributed to the charity fund.

Kim Zolciak

In May 2010, Zolciak met Atlanta Falcons football player Kroy Biermann at the charity event Dancing with Atlanta Stars.

Kroy Biermann

During the filming of the third season of the hit reality show The Real Housewives of Atlanta on Bravo, at an Atlanta charity function earlier in the year.

Kultur- und Sozialstiftung Internationale Junge Orchesterakademie

Since 1994, the foundation presents, annually at Easter, charity concerts within the Bayreuther Osterfestival, the Osterfestival Nördliche Oberpfalz and tour concerts in Selb and Bielefeld (Germany) for the benefit of children suffering from cancer.

Linzi Stoppard

In September 2010, Linzi held Fashion For The Brave in London for Help for Heroes, the Household Cavalry Operational Casualties Fund, and ABF - The Soldiers Charity.

Malone Society

The Society is a registered charity in the United Kingdom and its administrative base is at the University of London's Institute of English Studies.

Maria Armanda

The song was chosen to represent Portugal, in Bologna, in the 1980 edition of the Zecchino d'Oro, a festival of little known songs with profits going to the well-known charity UNICEF, with Armanda Maria emerging victorious with a song entitled "Ho visto un rospo".

Metro Cinema

Metro Cinema Edmonton, a non-profit organization and registered charity located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Mulago Foundation

Also on the list are VillageReach (which charity evaluator GiveWell listed as its top rated charity from 2009 to November 2011), Living Goods (which has been profiled in many media outlets), Bridge International Academies (a for-profit company focused on low-cost private education in the developing world), mothers2mothers, KOMAZA, Samasource, VisionSpring, Root Capital, and The MicroDreams Foundation.

Muscular Dystrophy Campaign

Lord Attenborough served as the charity’s President for 30 years, until 2002, when he became an Honorary Life President.

Pedro Roldán

Altarpiece of the Entombment of Christ, Saint George, Saint Roch, and the Virgin of Charity (Entierro de Cristo, San Jorge, San Roque y Virgen de la Caridad, Hospital de la Caridad, Seville.

Port Erin railway station

This extension which also forms part of the toilet facilities at the station has in the past been home to the local Royal National Lifeboat Institution charity shop among others.

Praxoula Antoniadou

As an amateur musician she has participated in the television charity show 'DanSing for You' in order to help children battling cancer.

Rondo Theatre

The Rondo Theatre, in Bath, was established in 1989 through the generosity of Doreen and Wilf Williams, who bought the former church hall from St. Saviours Church, Larkhall in 1976 and gifted the freehold to a newly formed charity, The Rondo Trust for the Performing Arts.

Simon Storey

Storey was also the November pin up for the 2008 Clyde 1 Cash for Kids Charity Calendar which raises funds to support the most vulnerable children in Scottish communities.

Sophie Chandauka

In January 2009, Chandauka was appointed to the Board of Trustees of Sentebale ('Forget Me Not' in Sesotho), the African children's charity that was established by Prince Seeiso of Lesotho and Prince Harry to help vulnerable children and young people in Lesotho, particularly those who have been orphaned as a result of HIV/AIDS.

St. Davids Polo and Racing Club

In 2009, the club added a further two fixtures to its successful Fonmon Castle polo day: a charity polo day at the Legge-Bourke estate, Glanusk Park in July and beach polo at Swansea Bay, in collaboration with society fixer Arwel Richards.

The Gospel of Wealth

Even bequeathing one's fortune to charity was no guarantee that it would be used wisely, due to the fact that there was no guarantee that a charitable organization not under one's direction would use the money in accordance with one's wishes.

The Haberman Educational Foundation

The Haberman Educational Foundation is a not-for-profit foundation chartered in 1994 in accordance with the research of Dr. Martin Haberman for selecting the best teachers and principals for the children and youth of America.

The Jackie Robinson Story

On April 19, 2005, 20th Century Fox and Legend Films released a colorized version of the film, donating a portion of the proceeds to the Jackie Robinson Foundation, a charity that benefits education for gifted students.

Traveling library

A camel library service exists in Kenya which is funded by the Kenyan government and as a charity in Garissa and Wajir near the border with Somalia.

University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust

In September 2006 the Steve Mills Stem Cell Laboratory, which had been established by a charity created by Southampton F.C. footballer Steve Mills, moved from the Royal South Hampshire Hospital to a new location at Southampton General Hospital, and was officially opened on 27 September 2006 by Steve's widow Jo and former Southampton footballer and manager, Alan Ball.

War of the Genders

An average of 3.1 million viewers watched the episode finale live, creating the highest rating average below the 2003 Charity Football Competition Real Madrid vs Hong Kong and tied with the 2005 Korean TV drama Dae Jang Geum and the 2008 TVB TV drama Moonlight Resonance.

Waste Watch

Formerly, a registered charity, Waste Watch merged with the environmental charity Keep Britain Tidy in 2011.


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