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Affordable Donate & Learn Expo Taps Web Pros From LinkedIn, Bing, P&G
Affordable Donate & Learn Expo Taps Web Pros From LinkedIn, Bing, P&G Bassem Ghali leads the Donate & Learn Online Marketing Expo, Dec. 2013, which was attended by 450 people and raised more than $9000 for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Toronto — photo credit: from Facebook.Fundraising can have tangible benefits for your career or business. And…
94-Year-Old Family Produce Biz Andy Boy Gives Millions To Charity
94-Year-Old Family Produce Biz Andy Boy Gives Millions To Charity The Andy Boy pink ribbon logo found on packages of their romaine hearts.Making a salad or stir fry can do more good than just good for your body, if you’re a customer of D’Arrigo Bros of California. Their bags of romaine hearts, for example, have the pink ribbon symbol for breast cancer,…
Donate Naturally Organic Delivery Lets Customers Choose The Charity
Donate Naturally Organic Delivery Lets Customers Choose The Charity DonateNaturally.com lets customers fundraise while they shop — photo courtesy of D.N.It takes a powerful imagination to elevate something as mundane as weekly grocery shopping to an altruistic level. Imagination and, in the case of Jasmin von Teichman, a heap of frustration with the…
Charitable Deal Site GreedyGiver.com Expands to Include Crowdfunding
Charitable Deal Site GreedyGiver.com Expands to Include Crowdfunding GreedyGiver.com founder Apostolos Sigalas chats with people for his Give A Buck campaign. The deal site handed out 100 loonies for Giving Tuesday, 2013.Almost as soon as he launched his Groupon-like daily deal site GreedyGiver.com last spring, altruistic Toronto businessman Apostolos…
Scott Thompson Joins Other Cancer Survivors At Wellspring Runway Event
Scott Thompson Joins Other Cancer Survivors At Wellspring Runway Event A dapper and cancer free Scott Thompson struts down the runway at Holt Renfrew's Well Dressed For Spring, benefitting Wellspring. The actor-comedian was diagnosed with B-cell non-Hodgkins gastric lymphoma in 2009.Hannibal/Kids In The Hall actor-comedian Scott Thompson and other cancer…
TD Green Foundation Banks on Customers, Employees To Power Its Work
TD Green Foundation Banks on Customers, Employees To Power Its Work Kids participate in the TD Outdoor Classroom Program. Banks may be noted for outrageous profits but TD’s Friends of the Environment Foundation pours millions into community greening projects nationwide. Since being founded by TD Bank Group in 1990, the national charity has provided more…
Barney Bentall Writing Songs With Sponsors Names For Grand Cariboo Opry
Barney Bentall Writing Songs With Sponsors Names For Grand Cariboo Opry Barney Bentall (fifth from left) and his revolving cast of musicians perform songs at the Grand Cariboo Opry that incorporate the names of sponsors. The annual shows have raised more than $150,000 over seven years.Canadian musician Barney Bentall, onetime leader of 90s roots-rock…
Metric Singer Emily Haines Partners With Kiehl's For MusiCounts
Metric Singer Emily Haines Partners With Kiehl's For MusiCounts Metric's Emily Haines sits in a Kiehl's store to discuss the importance of music and MusiCounts.There’s still time to step up and help Metric singer Emily Haines raise money for Canadian charity MusiCounts through her partnership with Kiehl’s. For every product sold online at kiehls.ca,…
Beau’s All Natural Brewing Company Hops To Their Own Oktoberfest For Charity
Beau’s All Natural Brewing Company Hops To Their Own Oktoberfest For Charity Getting their green on at Beau's All Natural Brewing Company's annual Oktoberfest charity beer bash.Beau’s All Natural Brewing Company will split $75,000 raised from its recent signature Oktoberfest charity event between The Canadian Canoe Foundation, United Way Ottawa, Kiva,…
Bargain Hunters With Charitable Hearts Buy On Deal Site GreedyGiver
Bargain Hunters With Charitable Hearts Buy On Deal Site GreedyGiver GreedyGiver.com founder/CEO Apostolos Sigalas.Online bargain hunters may not seem like obvious targets for charitable outreach. But Toronto’s Apostolos Sigalas of GreedyGiver.com can attest to the generosity of penny-pinchers seeking deals with a side of good karma. He would know: he…
Broken Social Scene's Kevin Drew, MusiCounts, TD Bank To Give $20K of Musical Instruments To Street Youth at Sketch
Broken Social Scene's Kevin Drew, MusiCounts, TD Bank To Give $20K of Musical Instruments To Street Youth at Sketch Jamming at Toronto’s Sketch Working Arts for Street-Involved and Homeless Youth — photo credit: Sonya Reynolds.For a long time, the Canadian music industry’s charity of choice, MusiCounts, operated by the Canadian Academy of Recording…
School Kids Collect 140 Million Pennies For Free The Children
School Kids Collect 140 Million Pennies For Free The Children Wagons full of We Create Change penny bags ae pulled along Toronto's Bay St. June 27 as part of the final tally announcement — photo courtesy of Free The Children.Free The Children has many programs to engage young people to fundraise and raise awareness for global issues, but We Create Change…
Southbrook Organic Winery At Forefront Of Eco-Friendly Deliciousness
Southbrook Organic Winery At Forefront Of Eco-Friendly Deliciousness Owner Bill Redelmeier poses by barrels separating Southbrook's meeting area and tasting room — photo credit: Kim Hughes.Winemaker Bill Redelmeier is the kind of guy who makes environmental sustainability seem really cool. And he will happily blab your ears purple about the critical…
Beyonce, Madonna, J-Lo, Florence Help Raise Millions For Girl Power
Beyonce, Madonna, J-Lo, Florence Help Raise Millions For Girl Power Madonna promo shot — courtesy of Warner Music Canada.A massive fundraising concert organized by Chime For Change co-founders Frida Giannini, actress Salma Hayek Pinault and singer Beyonce, raised S4.3 million over the weekend to help girls and women in 70 different countries achieve…
Tim Hortons Coffee Buys Camp for Kids During Daylong Initiative
Tim Hortons Coffee Buys Camp for Kids During Daylong Initiative Kids having a blast in Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia, at one of the Tim Horton Children's Foundation camps — photo courtesy of Tim Hortons. Few of us need encouragement to drink more coffee but it’s nice to know that, on one day at least, our collective java obsession can actually bring about…