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Appliance Company Electrolux Receives Two CSR Honours
Appliance Company Electrolux Receives Two CSR Honours Major appliances corporation Electrolux, which sells more than 40 million products in more than 150 markets annually, has been given two honours, a place on Ethisphere Institute's 2011 World's Most Ethical Companies list and Energy Star Partner of the Year award for product manufacturer. The company,…
The Remix Project Provides At-Risk Youth Six Months Of Creative Arts Training
The Remix Project Provides At-Risk Youth Six Months Of Creative Arts Training The Remix Project The Remix Project's recording studio is a registered charity for the arts in Toronto that helps creatively gifted “at risk” teens and young adults, often from troubled or disadvantaged backgrounds, who don’t have the usual opportunities to fulfill their true…
Actress Carly Pope Advocates Planned Parenthood
Actress Carly Pope Advocates Planned Parenthood Canadian actress Carly Pope, who stars in the new modern romance movie, Textuality, in which she is seeing four men intimately, doesn’t live in Vancouver anymore where she volunteered for three years at OPTions For Sexual Health (formerly Planned Parenthood of British Columbia), so she has become involved…
Prostate Cancer As Serious An Issue As Breast Cancer In Women
Prostate Cancer As Serious An Issue As Breast Cancer In Women Runners celebrate their achievement at the Father’s Day Walk/Run in HalifaxOn Sunday, June 19, more than a dozen cities across Canada will host the Father’s Day Walk/Run for Prostate Cancer Canada (PCC). This high-profile event is the second largest awareness-and-fundraiser surrounding the…
Can You Remain Silent For 25 Hours To Speak Out About Uganda's Invisible Children?
Can You Remain Silent For 25 Hours To Speak Out About Uganda's Invisible Children? Some 31,470 people have signed up for Invisible Children’s 25 campaign, asking for an individual donation of $25 and a pledge of silence for 25 hours, beginning Sunday night, April 24 at 7 p.m. and lasting until Monday April 25 at 8 p.m. Why, you ask? There is an…
Neil Young Proud Of Bridge School's Global Impact
Neil Young Proud Of Bridge School's Global Impact Neil and Pegi Young’s Bridge School in Hillsborough, California, was a much-needed, one-of-a-kind school for children with severe speech and physical impairments when it opened in 1987. Now it is a model for other schools and uses communication technology to teach its methods to other teachers around…
Children's Wish Foundation: Stars, Yes; Moon, No
Children's Wish Foundation: Stars, Yes; Moon, No Ava attended the Vancouver Olympics as her wish Children’s Wish Foundation of Canada can’t grant trips to the moon, but some 16,000 other wishes have been fulfilled in its 25-plus-year history. Its mandate is simple — kids aged three to 17 living in Canada who have been diagnosed with a life-…
George Michael Offers Royal Wedding Song If The Public Gifts To Royal Charity Fund
George Michael Offers Royal Wedding Song If The Public Gifts To Royal Charity Fund British pop singer George Michael has recorded a version of Stevie Wonder’s 1972 ballad “You And I” as a wedding gift to Prince William of Wales and Catherine Middleton, who will be married on April 29 at London’s Westminster Abbey. While the MP3 of the song is available…
EMI's Coolest Charity Auction On The Planet To Benefit Japan
EMI's Coolest Charity Auction On The Planet To Benefit Japan EMI Group has rallied its artists and songwriters to donate items for a massive eBay auction to raise funds for the Japanese Red Cross disaster relief efforts to help those affected by last month’s earthquake and tsunami. The multi-national music company will also match all funds raised from the "EMI Family 4 Japan" auction up to…
Sting, Downey Jr., O’Connor, Tankian Among Contributors To Nuclear Disarmament Charity Project
Sting, Downey Jr., O’Connor, Tankian Among Contributors To Nuclear Disarmament Charity Project Emmy-winning New York composer/producer Jonathan Elias has assembled a multitude of artists to partake in a charity album, Path To Zero: Prayer Cycle 2, including Sting and his wife Trudie Styler; Robert Downey Jr.; System Of A Down’s Serj Tankian; Sinead O’Connor and Korn’s Jonathan Davis. He even…
Nobody's Perfect To "Jar of Hearts" Singer Christina Perri
Nobody's Perfect To "Jar of Hearts" Singer Christina Perri Christina Perri / Photo by Lani Lee“Nobody’s perfect” is a campaign or charity Philadelphia singer-songwriter Christina Perri is seriously thinking of starting since the success of “Jar of Hearts,” which sold a million downloads after she performed the heart-wrencher on the FOX TV…
Once Bullied Singer Bares Face For Kids Help Phone
Once Bullied Singer Bares Face For Kids Help Phone In the video for her song “Sunflower,” from her 2009 debut album, Famous, country singer Stacey Zegers presents a poignant anti-bullying message. A victim herself of childhood bullying, the 25-year-old London, Ontario native resident hooked up with the free, anonymous counselling service Kids Help Phone …
Yoko Ono Charity Has Built 90 Schools And Counting
Yoko Ono Charity Has Built 90 Schools And Counting Yoko OnoFor nearly half a century, Japanese-born avant-garde artist Yoko Ono has been a figurehead and ambassador for social change. She continues to be a vocal supporter of women’s and gay rights, as well as an advocate for peace. As such, she gives to several handpicked charities that she feels are in…
Hip Hop Artist Taps Into Youth Mentoring
Hip Hop Artist Taps Into Youth Mentoring Student Benjamin McDonald plays steel pan for a school presentation after a TAP music seminarIn the music industry, he is the rapper/producer formerly known as Solitair and now goes by Silver, but outside music he’s known by his birthname Sheldon Pitt, the executive director of Toro Action Programs (TAP), a non-…
Simple Plan Foundation Has Raised Half A Million For Youth Charities
Simple Plan Foundation Has Raised Half A Million For Youth Charities Simple Plan performs acoustically at MAA benefit lunch / Photo credit: Steven Campbell and Adrian Diaz.Many people get behind causes and charities and musicians are often asked to become spokespeople, "ambassadors" or simply perform at a fundraising event when they reach even a modicum…