Donations from Americans for earthquake relief in Haiti have passed the $1 billion and received by 91 charities engaged in Haiti relief. Major recipients of Haiti donations include American Red Cross, Catholic Relief Services, the U.S. Fund for UNICEF and the U.S. wing of Doctors Without Borders.
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Charles Woodson, A football player, donates $2 millions to the new University of Michigan Mott Children’s Hospital and Women’s Hospital.
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A huge donation which is given to three school districts and five charter groups by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is the largest education grant in a decade. The donation of $290 million will focus mainly on reforming teacher management and studying what makes teachers effective.
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Last Wendesday Warren Buffet donated more than 500,000 Berkshire Hathaway Incstocks ($1.5 billion) to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and four other small charities.
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Bill Gates and the the British and German governments will donate more than $630 milion to international effort to eradicate the disease. The Polio rate was decreased dramatically (99%) since 1988.
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Beyonce Knowles will play as the legendary singer Etta James in the new film Cadillac Records. Her full salary from this movie, about $4 million, will be a donation to a drug treatment center.
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The nonprofit Wikipedia project has met its $6 million fund raising goal, enables to improve the software of the site and upgrading the servers and the site bandwidth. About 50,000 contributors donated a total of $2 million in just 8 days.
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During the year of 2008, Madonna donated more than 3 million dollars through charitable organizations. Some of her donations were towards cancer and Aids research, but the most of the donations were towards the Kabbalah Center.
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