Fundraising

Fundraising

"We need something to get it moving," he said. "The market is broken. It is not going to be able to repair itself if it's not investable."

I already said thank you, but should I say anything else? GENTLE READER: What would you say? Something along the lines of, I have no use for this, so I'm going to get rid of it? Countering generosity by mentioning what a failure it was does not make anyone's Christmas merrier. Not even yours, next Christmas, when this client will have been discouraged by the effort to please you and will give up trying.

Solomon Smith said he founded the charity with money from his job as a youth worker after being unable to secure funding for the project. He began helping others after witnessing poverty among his peers as a child. He said: "We got cooked meals every day. It's not until I was actually going to my friend's house, when I realised poverty. I realised that if they didn't go out and steal, they were not eating."

HashKey wants to become the first crypto exchange that Hong Kong investors can buy on their local stock market. The company has filed for an initial public offering (IPO) that could make it the city's first publicly listed, fully crypto-native venue under the new virtual asset regime. It is offering 240.57 million shares, with a portion reserved for local retail investors.

It's possible I was in attendance that very same year: my father, a street racer in his youth, was certainly aware of PIR and my mother had always been a Christmas lights enthusiast, trucking us from neighborhood to brightly-lit neighborhood. I'm not certain, but I do have distinct childhood memories of slowly circling that track, watching the festive lights go by.

The deal, via Collegiate Athletic Solutions, known as CAS, follows failed talks earlier in the year for a direct investment into the Big 12, and would mark the first major conference-wide capital deal in major US college sports. The partnership would offer the 16 member universities a line of credit of roughly $30 million each and is close to being finalized, the person added, asking not to be named discussing private information.

Atkins noted that the number of publicly registered companies has fallen over the past 30 years as mergers and bankruptcies have outpaced new listings. His goal, he said, is to "make it cool to be a public company" again-something he believes has "taken a hit over time." Atkins outlined three obstacles he believes are holding issuers back. The first is what he described as expensive, overly long disclosures that impose an unnecessary burden on issuers.

Year-end giving can be a moment of reflection, but for businesses and philanthropy alike, it should also include looking forward and asking the question, what's next? One throughline from this past year is uncertainty. Uncertainty has rewritten how we work, live, and lead. Yet, one thing that still holds true is we share a responsibility to keep systems strong so no one is left behind, especially children.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Hundreds of law enforcement officers from 23 different agencies coming as far south as Salinas and north to Los Altos descended on a Target store in San Jose on Wednesday, armed with big smiles and goodwill to join nearly 200 elementary school students on a holiday shopping spree. This was Shop With a Cop Foundation of Silicon Valley's 18th annual event, which many officers some wearing Santa hats and reindeer antlers call their favorite day of the year.

Reimagining Philanthropy explores transformative and decolonialized approaches to philanthropy that can shift our sector from traditional top-down models toward more equitable, community-centered practices. In community, we explore how philanthropic organizations can share power authentically, center affected communities in decision-making, and build truly reciprocal relationships. "How can you think about creating civic spaces when those who fight for them are being threatened?" Funding, safety, democracy promotion, and community control in the Global South cannot be understood in isolation from one another.

While standard at-home ovulation tests predict fertile days by tracking estrogen and Luteinizing hormone (LH), they don't measure the hormone that confirms your ovulation, which is progesterone metabolite PdG. Inito allows women to measure estrogen, LH, progesterone (PdG), and FSH on a single test strip. Inito's AI models interpret these levels to reveal fertility hormone patterns, track fertile days, and confirm ovulation.

The company plans to sell Variable Rate Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock, known as SATA. The offering allows Strive to issue shares into the market at prevailing prices rather than through a single sale. The structure gives the firm flexibility to raise capital as demand allows. SATA carries a 12% dividend and an effective yield near 13%. The preferred stock is modeled on Strategy's STRC perpetual preferred equity, which has been used as a funding tool for bitcoin accumulation.

PLANBUREAU studio designs a metallic piggy bank made of paper, which can encourage people to save up money and donate from a young age. The project is created for the Hungarian branch of Red Noses International, an organization that supports clown doctors who work with children in hospitals. The group needed a product for their charity shop that could help children learn how to save money and how to donate it.

"The Stuart Scott Fund honors Stuart's belief that everyone deserves a fair chance in the cancer fight," said Dr. Susanna Greer, Ph.D.

What's even better is that an anonymous donor will match the amount up to $1 million. Actor and Wrexham AFC co-owner Ryan Reynolds is a spokesperson and ambassador for the organization. His involvement goes back over a decade, and he always stops by to visit with the brave children whenever he is in Toronto. He calls the organization his "second family".

Local News The community has raised over $240,000 for Hadley Boucher's medical expenses. The city of Leominster held a Christmas parade for a first grader with inoperable brain cancer on Sunday. Hadley Boucher, 6, of Lunenberg, was diagnosed with the inoperable tumor on her brain stem in April, according to a GoFundMe page created for her family. Residents were asked to decorate their cars, dress up, and drive past the Boucher's house for "Haddie's Holly Jolly Christmas Parade," an event organizer posted on Facebook.

That's in addition to a program where people adopt families to shop for with their own resources during the holiday season. This is a great tradition. Near St. Nicholas Day, we get all the magnificent young people who are devoted to Catholic Charities and the Archdiocese of New York and they go shopping, Cardinal Timothy Dolan said in the store. And the great thing about it is we know the names, the ages, their sizes and what they needed, so it's very personal.

Family offices in the US managed $3.1 trillion worth of assets last year, according to a Deloitte report. That's more than the market caps of Meta and Tesla, combined. But many family offices manage all of those assets using relatively basic software, such as Excel and QuickBooks, as well as borderline prehistoric technologies like fax machines.

Alltroo co-founders Kyle Rudolph and Jon Walburg share how they transformed their pro-athlete star power into a fundraising platform that allows their community the ability to donate to a variety of organization and win high-value prizes. In this episode of Build Mode, they reveal how they leveraged their networks to disrupt the charitable giving industry, from raising half a million dollars for the NFL in their first year to learning hard lessons about scaling too fast.

Registration isn't just a chance to bond with fellow theater lovers and running enthusiasts; it's an opportunity to turn that energy into real support. The race benefits Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, which will again offer limited fundraising spots for participants. Anyone wishing to participate must commit to raising a minimum of $250, which will provide 25 HIV tests at a clinic or 100 healthy meals for those living with HIV/AIDS and other debilitating illnesses.

Between childcare, classes, and everyday expenses, money gets tight fast for Pablo Martinez. That's why he relies on Cougar Cupboard, a food pantry at the University of Houston. The Cougar Cupboard, in partnership with the Houston Food Bank, gives students access to fresh groceries and pantry staples. For student parents like Martinez, it's one less thing to worry about. "The Houston Food Bank is helping my family and I relieving some of that stress that a lot of families feel," Martinez said.