AdDrive, an affiliate of SubscriberBASE, has been named the Big Pig sponsor of the Carolina Children’s Home’s annual BBQ Festival, for the third year in a row. The affiliate has sponsored the event, which helps raise funds for the home, for the past 4 years.
As a Big Pig, AdDrive is recognized as the top contributing sponsor of the 2008 festival and will be featured in the Shining Star Gazette, the Home’s publication. The company’s name and logo will also be featured on festival souvenirs... Read Full Story
Top 10 lists are always interesting. The Chronicle of Philanthropy puts out a list each year of the people who have donated or committed the most capital to charity and philanthropy. This year, William Barron Hilton ranked first. For a meager $200,000,000 you too could make this list! Rank Donor Total amount Years on list 1. William Barron Hilton $1.2-billion 1 2. Jon Huntsman $750.0-million 4 3. T. Denny... Read Full Story
It started on August 12 with Crystal's furious post about a disappointing visit to a Red Robin restaurant, made worse by the discovery that her 8-year-old daughter had left a backpack containing a Gameboy at the restaurant:
"I immediately called the store and spoke with Lexi, who ... told me that she did, indeed, have the backpack... She said that ... the managers lock up lost & found items, so not to worry.
I went in today to pick up my item and Lexi reluctantly informed me that it was... Read Full Story
Keeping it simple can make a difference, and Poverty.com’s sister site FreeRice is a perfect example. FreeRice has two goals:
Provide English vocabulary to everyone for free.
Help end world hunger by providing rice to hungry people for free.
Execution against these goals resulted in a very casual online word game which, for each correctly answered multiple-choice question, contributes 10 grains of rice to end world hunger.
In a quick session (that actually became somewhat of a contest with... Read Full Story
Deborah Medeiros Baker, Vanessa Williams and Pamela Wint Vanessa Williams, Bernd Beetz and Vera Wang Beautiful and age-defying Vanessa Williams hosted the March of Dimes 33rd Annual Beauty Ball at Cipriani 42nd Street in NYC last night. Event Co-Chairs Bernd Beetz, CEO of Coty Inc and designer Vera Wang were Event Co-Chairs for the charitable event. The Annual Beauty Ball is one of the beauty industry's most anticipated social gatherings of the year. Patrons including celebrity stylists... Read Full Story
