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Incredibly Generous Shoe Shiner Donates $200,000 in Tips to Hospital
Albert Lexie shines shoes, but he brightens up a whole lot more than people's feet.
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Waiter Who Defended Boy With Down Syndrome Gives All Donations To Charity
Last month, Michael Garcia made a lot of people smile. The 45-year-old, who is a waiter at Laurenzo’s Restaurant in Houston, Texas, refused to serve a family who insulted Milo Castillo, a five-year-old with Down Syndrome, by suggesting that "special needs children need to be special someplace else."
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The Rich Fail to Spread the Wealth By Donating Less to Charity Than the Middle Class Does — Dollars and Sense
In a world where the portrait of philanthropy is often painted using an upper class model to represent an offering of charity to the less fortunate, sometimes we forget that empathy has a way of digging a little deeper into the pockets of blue jeans than it does a three-piece suit.
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Boy Fined for Selling Hamburgers for Charity Without Permit — Is It Fair? [VIDEO, POLL]
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Rush’s Geddy Lee Mixes Wine With Charity
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Beastie Boys’ Action Figure Sales to Benefit Charities
Move over, Snoop Dogg, Eminem and Nelly: the Beastie Boys have also been immortalized as commercially available action figures. And, in a rather superhero-like gesture, Mike “Mike D” Diamond, Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz and Adam “MCA” Yauch are donating the proceeds from sales of their limited-edition figures to charity.
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Ben Stiller Markets Nonprofit in Creative Way [VIDEO]
It's a serious charity, the Ben Stiller Foundation, whose goal is to build schools in impoverished areas around the world. A lofty goal indeed. The public service announcement to promote the foundation is well, pure Stiller.
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Warren Buffet Donates $1.5 Billion to the Gates Foundation
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation just got a $1.5 billion infusion.
Warren Buffet, the third-richest person in the world, gave 19.34 million shares of his insurance and investment company, Berkshire Hathaway Inc., to the charitable organization, which was created by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and his wife to help address the world's education, health and poverty problems.
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Charlie Sheen Did What????
Sure,his heart may explode from the "chunks of cocaine", he reportedly smoked, but for now it's a BIG heart and feeling generous.
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Couple Tries to Rob Charity Lemonade Stand
In an attempt to garner the title "World's Meanest Robbers," a couple in Houston held up a charity lemonade stand run by 13-year-old Chelsea Edwards and her two friends.
Gage Turner, 20, and Amber Umbarger, 21, allegedly approached the lemonade booth, inquired about the cost and then grabbed the money jar and ran.
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‘Secret Millionaire’ Doesn’t Fail To Inspire
I just got done watching 'Secret Millionaire' and all I can say is WOW.
My dear friend Monica Lassmann had told me about the show and how touching it was so I decided to watch it. This week's show was about Gary and Diane Heavin who are the co-owners of 'Curves'.
Gary and Diane left their wealthy lifestyles behind to spend a week in Houston's poverty-stricken Third Ward. They were given $6.50 per day to use for food while they were on their journey.
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Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon Sing Rebecca Black’s Friday [VIDEO]
Who knew that such a bad song could create so much good in the entertainment world?
On Friday night's episode of 'Late Night With Jimmy Fallon,' funnyman Stephen Colbert made a special musical appearance, in which he fittingly performed Rebecca