Foundations
Grammy Museum Gives $200,000 To Music Science, Archive Projects
Grammy Museum Gives $200,000 To Music Science, Archive Projects Grammy Museum — photo via Grammy Museum Facebook pageThe Grammy Museum is giving $200,000 USD ($262,450 CAD) to 15 different organizations to do scientific music-related research and preserve important musical archives. The money is coming from the Grammy Museum Grant Program, which has been…
Q&A: Children's Aid Foundation CEO Valerie McMurtry On Opening Post-Secondary Doors For Canada’s Foster Kids
Q&A: Children's Aid Foundation CEO Valerie McMurtry On Opening Post-Secondary Doors For Canada’s Foster Kids The 2018 Stand Up for Kids Night — photo credit: Children's Aid Foundation of Canada. When the government is your parent, as Valerie McMurtry, president and CEO of the Children’s Aid Foundation of Canada, puts it in a nutshell, what…
Q&A: Award-winning Volunteer Jim Leech Recalls Falling Into Philanthropy to Keep Him Out of Trouble
Q&A: Award-winning Volunteer Jim Leech Recalls Falling Into Philanthropy to Keep Him Out of Trouble Jim Leech — photo provided Toronto business executive Jim Leech has enjoyed philanthropic leadership roles with such foundations as Mastercard and Toronto General & Western Hospital, but the Association of Fundraising Professionals’ 2018…
Slaight Family Foundation Donates $15 Million to United Way To Help Isolated or Vulnerable Seniors
Slaight Family Foundation Donates $15 Million to United Way To Help Isolated or Vulnerable Seniors Gary Slaight, Daniele Zanotti, Emmanuelle Gattuso, and Beth Wilson hold an #UNIGNORABLE poster representing social isolation, at United Way's AGM — photo credit: Nicholas Jones. The Slaight Family Foundation has donated $15 million to the United Way Greater…
Taylor Swift Releases Video For Pro-LGBTQ Song "You Need To Calm Down"
Taylor Swift Releases Video For Pro-LGBTQ Song "You Need To Calm Down" Katy Perry and Taylor Swift in thePop star Taylor Swift has released a star-studded music video to support her pro-LGBTQ song "You Need To Calm Down." Throughout the video Swift and her friends are confronted by an angry, toothless and dirty anti-gay mob of people. The…
Ellen DeGeneres Backs Virtual Reality Game Used To Protect Gorillas In Rwanda
Ellen DeGeneres Backs Virtual Reality Game Used To Protect Gorillas In Rwanda Gorillas! augmented reality game experience — photo providedA new augmented reality mobile game supported by Ellen DeGeneres is being used to help gorillas in Rwanda. Gorillas! is the new game created by augmented reality app maker Krikey in partnership with The Ellen Fund. In…
Prince Harry and Meghan Do Instagram Purge Then Support 16 Mental Health Causes
Prince Harry and Meghan Do Instagram Purge Then Support 16 Mental Health Causes Meghan Markle, Prince Harry and their baby Archie — photo via Sussex Royal Instagram accountPrince Harry and Meghan Markle, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, have reconfigured their joint "Sussex Royal" Instagram account to follow only 16 other accounts around the world as a…
Q&A: Mark S. Bonham Talks LGBTQ Philanthropy And New Homeless Youth Shelter
Q&A: Mark S. Bonham Talks LGBTQ Philanthropy And New Homeless Youth Shelter Mark S. Bonham — photo providedAs the Association of Funding Professional’s 2018 Outstanding Philanthropist of the Year, Toronto’s Mark S. Bonham has bolstered the LGBTQ community’s quality of life with his generous altruism. A successful financier who was named one of the…
Dreams Take Flight Takes Plane Load of Kids To Disney World For 30 Year Anniversary
Dreams Take Flight Takes Plane Load of Kids To Disney World For 30 Year Anniversary Kids pose outside Air Canada plane before enjoying their visit to Disney World, May 8, 2019 — photo credit: Dreams Take FlightMore than a hundred children with various personal challenges, medical to emotional, are currently enjoying a trip to Walt Disney World in Orlando…
Q&A: Godsmack Frontman Sully Erna Discusses Launch of The Scars Foundation
Q&A: Godsmack Frontman Sully Erna Discusses Launch of The Scars Foundation Godsmack's Sully Erna — photo by Troy Smith Mental health problems are on the rise in America, and Godsmack’s Sully Erna knows it. He remembers being a troubled kid and all these years later, at 51, feels this is the area he wants to take on and try and do something about it…
Q&A: MacArthur Foundation's Cecilia Conrad On How A Single $100 Million Grant Can Move The Needle
Q&A: MacArthur Foundation's Cecilia Conrad On How A Single $100 Million Grant Can Move The Needle The first 100&Change competition winner to receive $100 million in December 2017 was the Sesame Workshop and the International Rescue Committee as they teamed to educate young children displaced by the Syrian conflict in the Middle East — photo…
World Parkinson's Program Fundraiser In Markham To Support Patients, Caregivers Worldwide
World Parkinson's Program Fundraiser In Markham To Support Patients, Caregivers Worldwide Rashida Ali (left) at the 2018 World Parkinson's Program gala — photo providedThe third annual World Parkinson’s Program gala is putting caregivers and those in poverty who’ve been affected by Parkinson’s Disease in the spotlight at the organization’s third…
Phish Support $100,000 To Seven New York State Flood Relief Organizations
Phish Support $100,000 To Seven New York State Flood Relief Organizations Representatives from Arbor Housing and Development, American Red Cross – Finger Lakes, Community Foundation of Elmira-Corning and the Finger Lakes, Hector Food Pantry, Humane Society of Schuyler County, Dundee Fire and Rescue, Valois, Logan and Hector Fire Department, Watkins Glen…
Vancouver Act Galactic Hobos Donating Proceeds From Two New Singles To Parkinson's Research
Vancouver Act Galactic Hobos Donating Proceeds From Two New Singles To Parkinson's Research Galactic Hobos — photo providedVancouver electronic act Galactic Hobos are releasing two new singles as part of Parkinson’s Awareness month with proceeds from the songs going towards The Michael J. Fox Foundation For Parkinson’s Research. The first song "…
Juno Week Loaded with Charitable Opportunities For MusiCounts
Juno Week Loaded with Charitable Opportunities For MusiCounts bülow, MusiCounts executive director Kristy Fletcher; students of St. Paul Catholic Elementary School; Chris Campbell, London Tourism director of culture and entertainment for Tourism London and chair of the London Junos host committee; Theresa Mathers, music teacher, St Paul Catholic School —…