The New York City Marine Corps Council's New York City Mess Night will honor America’s wounded warriors. All benefit proceeds will be given to the Bob Woodruff Family Fund (www.bobwoodrufffamilyfund.org), which works to help our U.S. forces affected by Traumatic Brain Injury, a significant casualty issue on the Iraqi battlefield today.

USA Today has an article on how the six monks of the Cistercian Abbey of Our Lady of Spring Bank have turned LaserMonks into a $4.5 Million office supply giant.

Money was raised from the MMF Cash Drawer sponsorship, donations by BlueStar employees to participate in the cook-out, raffles, a White Elephant sale, personal employee donations, and monies raised by individual Great Strides walkers for the BlueStar team.

Gov. Sonny Perdue honored Georgia Tech Thursday for its role in the 2007–2008 statewide charitable campaign. During the May 15 awards luncheon, the Institute received the Governor’s Award for the largest increase in contributions and the Governor’s Cup for an organization with 1,001 to 9,000 employees.

The Hewlett-Packard Company Foundation today announced it has committed $250,000 to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) for aid in the disaster relief efforts in Myanmar (Burma).

A new campaign to help fund trainee doctors in Malawi was launched by a medical graduate of Imperial College London.

Hoops of Hope is an annual basketball shoot-a-thon, now with 3 national event dates. Its goal is to raise awareness and funds for children who have been orphaned by HIV/AIDS.

Consumer association Choice is calling for a single national regulator for the charity sector to improve transparency for donors.

Kevin Cronin recently took some time out of REO Speedwagon’s rehearsal schedule to participate in FOX-TV’s all-new, all-star episodes of DON'T FORGET THE LYRICS!, which kicked-off Thursday, Feb. 21 and airs on Thursdays (9:00-10:00 PM / 8 PM CDT). Kevin is competing for a chance to win a million dollars, playing for The Recording Academy's nonprofit MusiCares charity and his episode date airs Thursday, March 27th.

Fund-raiser Event to Support Pediatric Oncology Program for LA/OC-area Cancer Patients

Vir2 Ltd, the UK’s leading provider of SMS text based marketing and fundraising solutions for charities, today welcomed the written answer from the Treasury which states that VAT should not be charged on charity donations made by text.

Hundreds of computers from the University of Aberdeen are set to wing their way to Africa as part of a new charity deal.