<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.congoo.com/css/rss.css" type="text/css" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Charities News - Congoo</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/feed/newschannelsfeed.aspx?chid=69&amp;catid=277</link><description>News Feed for - Charities</description><item><title>Best Buy Launches Holiday Giving Program Benefiting Teen Nonprofi...</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96248438&amp;Channel_ID=69&amp;Category_ID=277</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T05:48:00</pubDate><description>Company: Best Buy Co., Inc. (BBY) Best Buy, a consumer electronics retailer, announced @15 Gifts, a new national philanthropic initiative designed to raise $1 million for programs that empower teens. </description><source>Zibb</source></item><item><title>Charity on the mend at work</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96262907&amp;Channel_ID=69&amp;Category_ID=277</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T01:05:00</pubDate><description>Firms emphasize volunteerism, expand definitions, options for charitable donations 1 | single page X Text Size As 2008 drew to a close, Family Rescue knew it would have to dig in for several hard months. </description><source>Chicago Tribune</source></item><item><title>Video: Charitable Giving 101</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96260892&amp;Channel_ID=69&amp;Category_ID=277</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T00:30:00</pubDate><description>The holiday season is a great time of year to make donations to your favorite charity, but how do you know where your money is really going? Stephanie AuWerter, Contributing Editor for SmartMoney.com, </description><source>CBS News</source></item><item><title>Andy Burnham told charities at risk in policy shift</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96260604&amp;Channel_ID=69&amp;Category_ID=277</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T00:32:00</pubDate><description>The health secretary, Andy Burnham. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/ Leading health experts round on the health secretary Andy Burnham today, warning him off reversing a Labour programme of modernisation </description><source>Guardian.co.uk</source></item><item><title>Nonprofit stocks labs worldwide with Boston area throwaways</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96284219&amp;Channel_ID=69&amp;Category_ID=277</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T07:29:00</pubDate><description>When Nina Dudnik arrived at Harvard Medical School in 2001 to pursue her doctorate, her eyes werent drawn to the marble hallways, the state-of-the-art facilities, or the august faculty. They were drawn </description><source>Boston Globe</source></item><item><title>BASF Helps Nonprofit Group Create Green Jobs Training Center inPhilly</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96221155&amp;Channel_ID=69&amp;Category_ID=277</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T07:23:00</pubDate><description>Helps Nonprofit Group Create Green Jobs Training Center inPhilly Thanks to a collaboration between BASF, the world's8217;s leading chemical company, and the Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI a Pennsylvania </description><source>PR News Now</source></item><item><title>??Jeys Marabini?? in charity gigs</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96281303&amp;Channel_ID=69&amp;Category_ID=277</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T06:55:00</pubDate><description>Entertainment Reporter MAJAHAWODWA ??Jeys Marabini? Ndlovu and his band Kozekulunge held a show at Njube High School in Bulawayo during the week to fund-raise for textbooks and furniture. In an interview </description><source>Zimbabwe Chronicle</source></item><item><title>Monsod to NGOs: Focus on oil smuggling, not oil firms</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96273915&amp;Channel_ID=69&amp;Category_ID=277</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T05:26:00</pubDate><description>MANILA, Philippines-Civil society groups must focus its attention on oil smuggling, which costs the country between P25 billion to P35 billion a year in losses, rather than on oil companies, said former </description><source>Philippine Daily Inquirer</source></item><item><title>Crorepati MPs double in LS, average assets tripled: ADR</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96229957&amp;Channel_ID=69&amp;Category_ID=277</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T05:34:00</pubDate><description>New Delhi: The number of MPs with assets worth over Rs one crore has doubled in the present Lok Sabha compared to the preceding one as the average worth of assets of an MP has nearly tripled, a report </description><source>ZeeNews.com</source></item><item><title>Not enough money for NGOs</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96271945&amp;Channel_ID=69&amp;Category_ID=277</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T04:51:00</pubDate><description>Volunteer groups are not getting enough funding to continue community efforts. The genesis of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) may have stemmed from selfless people wanting to do a good deed, but </description><source>Trinidad Express</source></item><item><title>British minister to visit NGOs</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96271936&amp;Channel_ID=69&amp;Category_ID=277</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T04:51:00</pubDate><description>There are no comments for this article.                          Site designed and managed by CCN New Ventures. Managing Editor: Omatie Lyder, Head of TV Dominic Kalipersad,</description><source>Trinidad Express</source></item><item><title>College Presidents Football Wager Benefits Charity</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96271876&amp;Channel_ID=69&amp;Category_ID=277</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T04:50:00</pubDate><description>Food pantries in Galesburg and Monmouth benefit from Bronze Turkey football rivalry Two local food pantries -- FISH of Galesburg and the Jamieson Community Center in Monmouth -- are the winners, in a </description><source>Knox College</source></item><item><title>Salvation Army Red Kettle Campaign is under way</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96141152&amp;Channel_ID=69&amp;Category_ID=277</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T04:13:00</pubDate><description>Salvation Army in Bradford is ringing in the holiday season with its annual Red Kettle Campaign. The campaign has been in full swing since Saturday, but bells have been ringing at Tops Friendly Markets </description><source>Bradford Era</source></item><item><title>2010 budget: NGO urges end to NASS personality clash</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96265756&amp;Channel_ID=69&amp;Category_ID=277</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T02:16:00</pubDate><description>The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC), an NGO, on Saturday in Abuja, urged members of the National Assembly to halt their personality conflict in the interest of the country. Reacting </description><source>Daily Triumph</source></item><item><title>Nonprofits Support Community, Economy</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96264062&amp;Channel_ID=69&amp;Category_ID=277</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T01:36:00</pubDate><description>The value of nonprofits cannot be overstated. Nonprofit organizations provide countless important and necessary direct services to individuals and families and also serve as an economic engine in our </description><source>WBJournal.com</source></item><item><title>Charity groups prepare to distribute sacrificial meat</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96259360&amp;Channel_ID=69&amp;Category_ID=277</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T00:13:00</pubDate><description>RIYADH: Meat from animals sacrificed during the Eid Al-Adha by the World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY) and other charities goes a long way to help the poor and needy across the world. Although it is </description><source>Arab News</source></item><item><title>DIFF 2009 to present third Cinema against AIDS Dubai gala to raise funds for amfAR </title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96175962&amp;Channel_ID=69&amp;Category_ID=277</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T06:38:00</pubDate><description>Under the patronage of Her Royal Highness Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein, UN Messenger of Peace, Chairperson of International Humanitarian City and wife of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, </description><source>Individual.com</source></item><item><title>PRIDE aims to clean up with new line: Nonprofits green-friendly cleaning supplies </title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96275227&amp;Channel_ID=69&amp;Category_ID=277</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T05:41:00</pubDate><description>PRIDE Industries Inc. is launching a line of cleaning supplies in the nonprofits foray into private-label products. The Roseville-based employer of people with disabilities started Monday producing a </description><source>Biz Journals</source></item><item><title>President Will Not Be Powerless, Say NGOs</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96291968&amp;Channel_ID=69&amp;Category_ID=277</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T09:29:00</pubDate><description>Nairobi NGOs have rejected the argument that the new constitution will render the presidency powerless. The Committee of Experts, which wrote the draft, only dispersed power from the presidency to other </description><source>AllAfrica.com</source></item><item><title>US-based Jamaican charity marks 15 years</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96290079&amp;Channel_ID=69&amp;Category_ID=277</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T08:55:00</pubDate><description>New York-based Jamaican charity Children of Jamaica Outreach (COJO) Inc will this year celebrate its 15th anniversary at the organisation's annual scholarship gala next month. Professor Rex Nettleford, </description><source>Jamaica Gleaner</source></item><item><title>Launch of charity Optometry Giving Sight</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96287505&amp;Channel_ID=69&amp;Category_ID=277</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T08:18:00</pubDate><description>it's a step closer to the real world 17th November, 2009 Staff and students at the Dublin Institute of Technology, in collaboration with the Association of Optometrists Ireland, have established the charity </description><source>Dublin Institute of Technology</source></item><item><title>Uganda: U.S Charities Open Clinic in Kasubi</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96286567&amp;Channel_ID=69&amp;Category_ID=277</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T08:06:00</pubDate><description>Kampala RESIDENTS of Kawaala-Kasubi, in Rubaga Division have a reason to smile after a new health centre was opened there on Wednesday. The clinic, on Kawaala-Kasubi Road, was established by Hope Medical </description><source>AllAfrica.com</source></item><item><title>Non-profits upset over decision for selling beer at festival</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96256232&amp;Channel_ID=69&amp;Category_ID=277</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T07:37:00</pubDate><description>A decision by the Milford Oyster Festival Committee to handle all beer sales exclusively is leaving some non-profit agencies high and dry. The committee needs the revenue to cover the more than $30,000 </description><source>Individual.com</source></item><item><title>Classic City Radio Announces Kickoff Charity Event</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96279624&amp;Channel_ID=69&amp;Category_ID=277</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T06:34:00</pubDate><description>Benefit broadcasts will support Athens-area charities in the holiday season FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PR Log (Press Release) ?? Nov 23, 2009 ?? Classic City Radio, an Internet radio station and Web information </description><source>PRLog</source></item><item><title>Rose leaves fancy frocks behind for charity work</title><link>http://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96213705&amp;Channel_ID=69&amp;Category_ID=277</link><pubDate>2009-11-23T06:44:00</pubDate><description>PROVING that becoming The Rose of Tralee isn't just about attending posh gatherings in fancy frocks, current Rose Charmaine Kenny is en route to Malawi to witness the hardships people endure there. She </description><source>Irish Independent</source></item></channel></rss>