In a recent contest for nonprofits working internationally, ZimKids managed to raise $26,726 to educate and house orphans in Zimbabwe.
DBGB, 299 Bowery (Houston Street), in the East Village, is hosting a pumpkin carving contest for its chefs, whose work will be on display in the dining room throughout the weekend.
Mrs Carson is contesting a refusal by the Department for Work and Pensions to uprate her state pension annually because she lives in South Africa - one of 150 countries where people have their pensions frozen either at the date they arrived abroad or when they retired.
Where is the helpful government update on the ongoing farcical situation, which is leading to great numbers of claimants successfully contesting unfair assessments of their fitness for work – or further information on how much time and money is squandered processing all these mistakes?
The Factory plans to sponsor a writing contest for Pleasantville High School students, with work judged by members, and winners appearing on the Pleasantville Community Television program "About Writing," of which Mr. Cheever is host.
GDP growth: 4.7% GDP per head: $6,180 (PPP: $10,470) Inflation: 3.0% Budget balance (% GDP) -2.5 Population: 70.0mThough more stable than in recent years, Thailand continues to work through a contest for power between populist forces representing the urban and rural poor and a military-backed establishment.
True to his inventive nature, Kamen has indeed invented what he hopes will be part of the solution: a contest for high school students to build working robots that compete against one another in an annual contest.
Martin O'Leary, a glacier scientist at the University of Michigan, has been working on the contest for weeks.
For "Death in Bloom", the writing staff realized that a contest would work towards the story's strengths.
In 2006 the New York Times wrote a story describing how Lee had agreed to become a judge for the contest, which featured work from young schoolchildren.
