The Red Cross will change the language it uses in advertising and public service announcements to clarify and explain its long-standing practice of pooling donations for use in a wide range of disasters covered out of its Disaster Relief Fund.
After putting some ground rules into effect — all art shows must end by 11 p.m., the thermostat would be set at 50, the artists would give donations for use of the space — the pastor kept saying yes.
Communities have also responded positively, and voluntary blood donations for use during obstetric emergencies are rising.
With a focus specifically on helping individuals collect money for good causes, GoFundMe has raised over $5 billion in donations for those using its platform.
Colbert expressed fear in taking money from "anonymous, scary donors," and professed that they were trying to kill him for using donations ineffectively.
Former Gov. Jeb Bush's nonprofit, education reform foundation is taking heat for using donations from for-profit companies to lobby for state education laws that could benefit those companies.
Armitage's troupe, Armitage Gone! Dance, recently made a video with Christopher Walken, in which Walken makes a plea for donations of used pointe shoes.
There are about 1,000 such stores nationwide according to the Reuse Association, most of them nonprofits that offer tax deductions in exchange for donations of used housing materials.
Moved by images of Syrian refugees holding babies in their arms and the photograph of three-year-old Alan Kurdi washed up dead on a Turkish beach, Cristal Logothetis started a crowdfunding campaign for donations of used baby carriers and money to buy new ones.
The deputy commissioner for intelligence, David Cohen, put out a call for donations using a counterterrorism network usually employed for intelligence sharing among regional police departments.
