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Local Charity aims to bring awareness of all cancers
2014-09-26 13:11:57| Grocery - Topix.net
One Austin group is throwing a fundraiser Friday to raise awareness of all cancers. The South Austin charity is called ColorCancer .
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Rockefellers, Heirs to an Oil Fortune, Will Divest Charity From Fossil Fuels
2014-09-22 05:41:21| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: John D. Rockefeller built a vast fortune on oil. Now his heirs are abandoning fossil fuels. The family whose legendary wealth flowed from Standard Oil is planning to announce on Monday that its $860 million philanthropic organization, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, is joining the divestment movement that began a couple years ago on college campuses. The announcement, timed to precede Tuesdays opening of the United Nations climate change summit meeting in New York City, is part of a broader and...
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Bill Gates in bid to boost charity amongst India's rich
2014-09-20 18:59:00| IT Services - Topix.net
US billionaire Bill Gates will dine with some of India's wealthiest people this weekend in a bid to encourage them to give more to charity, in a country where the rich are still seen as relatively tight-fisted. The gathering will be hosted by tycoon Azim Premji, founder of Bangalore-based software giant Wipro and one of India's biggest donors, an executive close to the businessman told AFP on Saturday.
Charity likely to fold in billionaire Griffin's divorce
2014-09-06 23:32:34| Apparel - Topix.net
As one of the world's richest men, Chicago hedge fund manager Kenneth Griffin has contributed hundreds of millions of dollars to causes around the globe since 1999, including tens of millions to Chicago institutions. But one of the vehicles for his charitable work is likely to fold, a casualty of the divorce between the billionaire and his money-manager wife, Anne Dias Griffin, sources said.
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Charity likely to fold in billionaire Griffin's divorce
2014-09-06 00:40:50| Footwear - Topix.net
As one of the world's richest men, Chicago hedge fund manager Kenneth Griffin has contributed hundreds of millions of dollars to causes around the globe since 1999, including tens of millions to Chicago institutions. But one of the vehicles for his charitable work is likely to fold, a casualty of the divorce between the billionaire and his money-manager wife, Anne Dias Griffin, sources said.
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