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Minneapolis Foster Family Turns to Donors to Fund Home Expansion
KSTP.com All of the kids have special needs related to drug and alcohol use by their birth mothers. “We want to be able to take more children and give them what they’re not getting, whatever that might be,” Hunt said. But with seven kids, a lot of kid gear and … |
Australia Rates Highly in ‘Rules to Give By’ Index – Pro Bono Australia
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Australia Rates Highly in ‘Rules to Give By’ Index
Pro Bono Australia While the majority of countries offer incentives for people making donations within their lifetimes, only 46 percent of countries that impose taxes on the estates of the deceased offer incentives for people who wish to leave money to a charitable cause … |
Campaign Finance Provisions Causing Cromnibus Heartburn – Roll Call (blog)
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Campaign Finance Provisions Causing Cromnibus Heartburn
Roll Call (blog) When the GOP takes control of Congress in January, McConnell will continue to “eviscerate” all the legal restraints around party donations, she predicted. Because the provision specifically expands the amount donors can give to party accounts related … |
Fundraiser to help children combat illnesses Friday – Daily Record-News
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Fundraiser to help children combat illnesses Friday
Daily Record-News Siblings have a 25 percent match rate, Graham said, “not overwhelming odds,” and doctors don’t like to use non-related bone marrow donors for children. Although children can develop aplastic anemia after having hepatitis, the cause of the disease … |
Americans can give a boatload more cash to politicians if end-of-year budget … – Palm Beach Post (blog)
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Americans can give a boatload more cash to politicians if end-of-year budget …
Palm Beach Post (blog) “At a time when most Americans already feel like their voices are not being heard in Washington, this language gives special interests even more say in the democratic process by drastically expanding how much money America’s wealthiest donors can give … |
Organ donation forever links families – Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle |
Organ donation forever links families
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle LoMonaco said she’d never thought about organ donation until one day in 2010 when she heard about a man who walked into a hospital and said he wanted to donate a kidney. It made her want to do the same. She researched the process but kept the idea … |
Budget deal chips away at limits on political donors, increases giving … – Minneapolis Star Tribune
San Francisco ChronicleBudget deal chips away at limits on political donors, increases giving …Minneapolis Star TribuneThe campaign finance proposal was tucked into an unrelated measure to keep most of the government open through the coming September…
‘The Most Corrupting Campaign-Finance Provisions Ever Enacted’ – The Atlantic
The Atlantic |
‘The Most Corrupting Campaign-Finance Provisions Ever Enacted’
The Atlantic With a last-minute provision tacked onto page 1,599 of the 1,603-page, $1.013 trillion spending bill, Congress is moving to fill the void left by the stripping of public funds for the party conventions by dramatically increasing the amount that … |
Local CEO writes message for Donate Life float – Sidney Daily News (subscription)
Local CEO writes message for Donate Life floatSidney Daily News (subscription)Every donation of organs, eyes and tissue begins an inspiring story that lives on forever. In their passing, deceased donors open up a world of health, sight and mobility to …
FDA Panel Endorses Lifetime Ban on Gay Blood Donation, Suggests Gay Men … – Slate Magazine (blog)
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FDA Panel Endorses Lifetime Ban on Gay Blood Donation, Suggests Gay Men …
Slate Magazine (blog) Last week, the Food and Drug Administration’s Blood Products Advisory Panel met to discuss lifting the government’s 31-year-old ban on blood donations from men who have sex with men. Currently, any man who has had sexual contact with another man … FDA Panel: Don’t Let Gay Men Give BloodMother Jones FDA Ponders Letting Gay Men Donate Blood, Decides To Just Leave It AloneBustle FDA considering lifting ban on gays donating bloodKFOX El Paso |