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...company’s first foray into charity. According to Worthington, the group raised an additional $4,000 last year for other causes including the AIDS Action Committee. This year, the Theatricals will use its annual charity night—a performance from which all the proceeds go to charity??to benefit the Broadway Care Group...

Author: By Eduardo E. Santacana, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Pudding Donates $12,000 To School | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...jazz singer Anita Baker, who performs a soulful tune for the enthusiastic audience. I interview later about her musical childhood. Lastly I meet a few New York gossip columnists, and then generally stare in awe at the blinding light of superficiality and wealth. Honestly, these “charity?? gatherings (this one is raising money to provide music programs for underprivileged kids) are an excuse for the rich to get moderately drunk together, talk about poor people and then give themselves awards. Hmm—sounds a lot like a certain university I know?...

Author: By Michael M. Grynbaum, | Title: Adventures in Mid- to High Society | 7/30/2004 | See Source »

Lopez is a strong supporter of community arts and education programs, for which he founded his own charity??the George and Ann Lopez-Richie Alarcon Care Foundation...

Author: By Aaron S. Ross, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Student Groups Shine at Cultural Rhythms | 3/1/2004 | See Source »

Target age group of the charity??s pro-masturbation campaign: 4,730,400 Minutes

Author: By FM Staff, | Title: Minutes | 11/13/2003 | See Source »

Forgiving the debt is not a stroke of charity??justice requires it. Many of the loans to Africa were illegitimate to begin with, used by rich countries to prop up corrupt, repressive or dictatorial regimes. South Africa’s apartheid regime accumulated more than $18 billion in foreign debt in the 15 years before it fell. Today, a democratic South Africa is left to pay its tormentors’ IOUs. By canceling the debt, we would both help Africa fight an epidemic and undo the mercantilist policies of the 1970s and 1980s that ravaged Africa?...

Author: By Nader R. Hasan, | Title: Our Hearts of Darkness | 5/24/2002 | See Source »

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