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Darelle Deal Site Lets Shoppers Choose Charity
Darelle Deal Site Lets Shoppers Choose Charity Darrelle is named after founder Kyle Kotapski's daughters Darah and Elle. Pictured here: (Back row; L to R) Melanie and Kyle; (Front row; L to R) Darah and Elle.Darelle founder/CEO Kyle Kotapski stresses that supporting charities and non-profit groups is at the very heart of his new e-commerce site. "From…
Nationwide Yard Sales Turn Clutter into Cash Battling Breast Cancer
Nationwide Yard Sales Turn Clutter into Cash Battling Breast Cancer 2009 Yard Sale for the Cure, in Toronto's Kew Gardens, sponsored by 1-800-GOT-JUNK? Simple ideas sometimes net the best results. Just look at Yard Sale for the Cure, the annual event which raises money for the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation through coordinated but independently staged…
Actor Paul Newman's Legacy Lives On In Newman's Own
Actor Paul Newman's Legacy Lives On In Newman's Own Old family photo: Paul Newman, daughter Clea Newman, and wife Joanne Woodward.You’ve seen them on the grocery shelves: Newman’s Own products from salad dressings to pasta sauce, but did you know every after-tax penny of profit from sale of the foodstuffs is donated via Newman’s Own Foundation…
Bluenotes Denim Week In DNA
Bluenotes Denim Week In DNA (L to R) Bluenotes COO/EVP Michael Roden and director of marketing Royal Nasager with the 2012 $5000 cheque for Cure Foundation.Bluenotes, the Canadian denim retailer geared towards teens and young adults, has long practiced corporate social responsibility. Established in 1984, the company which now operates 120 stores…
Singer Tenille Not A Me Generation Teen
Singer Tenille Not A Me Generation Teen Tenille singsNineteen-year-old Albertan country singer Tenille has been “playing it forward” for a number of years now, knowing there are many kids that don’t have it as good as she may. Her annual fundraiser, Big Hearts For Big Kids, has raised $350,000 so far for Sunrise House, a youth shelter in her hometown of…
Tasty Treats Help Dairy Queen Canada Assist Sick Kids
Tasty Treats Help Dairy Queen Canada Assist Sick Kids Toronto Maple Leafs' Phil Kessel and SickKids patient ambassadors lacing up at Dairy Queen's Miracle Treat Day kick-off event, July 2012.Dairy Queen Canada, the long-established burger and soft-serve ice cream purveyor, which boasts some 600 outlets from coast to coast, last year raised $2.5 million…
Guster Guitarist Greens Concerts Via Reverb Non-Profit
Guster Guitarist Greens Concerts Via Reverb Non-Profit Guster promo shot: Reverb's Adam Gardner in first row, far right.Leave it to a musician to make environmental activism look cool. When not fronting American alt-rockers Guster, 39-year-old singer-songwriter and guitarist Adam Gardner serves as co-director of non-profit organization Reverb, which, for…
Former Biker & Film Inspiration Sam Childers To Give Keynote At Charity Event
Former Biker & Film Inspiration Sam Childers To Give Keynote At Charity Event Actor Gerard Butler (left) played Sam Childers in 2011's Machine Gun Preacher.Sam Childers, the former Outlaw biker and drug dealer turned pastor who inspired the 2011 film Machine Gun Preacher, starring Gerard Butler, will be the guest speaker at a fundraiser to benefit his…
Hockey Legend, Dragon Walk Runway for Holt Renfrew's Wellspring Fundraiser
Hockey Legend, Dragon Walk Runway for Holt Renfrew's Wellspring Fundraiser Former Maple Leaf Paul Henderson on the runway of Holt Renfrew's fundraiser for Wellspring Cancer Support Foundation.There was a hockey legend, a doctor, a radio host, an insurance exec and five other models that walked the runway at high-end clothing retailer Holt Renfrew in…
Cat Build-A-Shelter Program Reaches Milestone
Cat Build-A-Shelter Program Reaches Milestone Cat lovers get busy with winter shelter-building workshops.Those behind the Toronto Humane Society’s winter shelter-building workshops — which transform everyday materials such as Rubbermaid storage bins, Styrofoam insulation, some tape and straw into life-sustaining makeshift homes for street cats in winter…
WWF-Coke Arctic Home Initiative Puts Polar Bears First
WWF-Coke Arctic Home Initiative Puts Polar Bears First Polar bear near Churchill, Manitoba — photo credit: © WWF-Canada / Geoff York.Creatures don’t come more iconic than the polar bear. Resilient, strong, free — and possessing the cutest babies ever — polar bears are at once powerful symbols of the rugged far north and striking reminders of what could be…
MusiCounts TD Community Music Grants To Benefit Disadvantaged Youth
MusiCounts TD Community Music Grants To Benefit Disadvantaged Youth Recording artist Serena Ryder indulges students at a MusiCounts presentation at Woodbine J.H.S. — photo: Barry Roden.Canadian non-profit and registered charitable organizations with pre-existing music programs and those that want to introduce a music program to complement their current…
Glossybox Plans More Cause-themed Beauty Product Deliveries
Glossybox Plans More Cause-themed Beauty Product Deliveries Glossybox's first cause-themed beauty package was last October for Breast Cancer Awareness Month.When Germany’s Glossybox, the monthly mailed subscriber-based beauty sample box, launched in Canada a year ago, the new Glossybox Canada decided that one of the themed boxes would be cause related.…
The Dare To Wear Love Challenge Is Now On
The Dare To Wear Love Challenge Is Now On Hoax Couture's Chris Tyrell and Jim Searle have helped raise more than $100,000 for The Stephen Lewis Foundation through their Dare To Wear Love galas and challenges.Bespoke fashion designers and philanthropists Jim Searle and Chris Tyrell of Hoax Couture are turning Valentine’s Day into Canada Day — and then…
Talk, Text, Share Today And Bell Canada Will Donate Money To Mental Health Causes
Talk, Text, Share Today And Bell Canada Will Donate Money To Mental Health Causes Olympic medalist and Bell Let's Talk spokesperson Clara Hughes talks to students at Langevin School, Feb. 5, 2013.Today is Bell Canada’s Let’s Talk Day, which asks Canadians to simply talk about mental heath issues in order to dispel the shame and embarrassment some might…