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With a focus on children escaping domestic violence, Melanie Neumann and Erica Fisher started a charity, Present Now, to spread love and support through gift-giving. Targeting shelters across California that have become the refuge for these children, Present Now provides kids with items they may need. Learn how you can be of service to Present Now. For more info, please...

A woolly mammoth tooth found off the coast of Newburyport, Mass., sold at auction for more than $10,000. The man who sold it pledges to use the money to help support Ukraine.

Former first lady Melania Trump launched a venture this week selling non-fungible tokens that must be paid for with Solan cryptocurrency, currently valued around $180 each.

The event aims to let players bring awareness to charitable causes of their choosing by wearing pre-approved custom cleats during the game.

“When you have great losses in your life, you have great tragedy in your life, you may not be the same anymore. I don’t think the old Shirley that I was looking for will ever come back again. I’m not healed, but it’s allowed me to talk to people in my community who are broken just like me and let...

The chairman of Prince Charles’ charitable foundation has resigned after reports the organization was offered a donation of more than 500,000 pounds ($692,000) from a Russian banker seeking British citizenship

Gaines said that he would also donate his cut hair to Children with Hair Loss, an organization that makes wigs for children in need.

For kids in the Dominican Republic, baseball is more than a game. Baseball is hope. The hope to be the next Fernando Tatis Jr. or Juan Soto or Pedro Martinez. The hope to support themselves and their families. But, hope can be a double-edged sword. Major League teams sign more players from the Dominican than any country outside the United…

Ben Berman, 27, began baking pizzas and delivering them from his second story apartment to connect with friends at the start of the pandemic. Months later, his hobby evolved into a booming nonprofit that has raised $30,000 to help fight food insecurity and homelessness in Philadelphia. Berman’s passion for cooking for others was inspired by his mother Kerri. Raised in Portland,...

MacKenzie Scott, philanthropist, author and former wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, says she has given away $4.1 billion in the past four months to hundreds of organizations as part of a giving pledge she announced last year

Justin Bieber has teamed up with a choir of London medical staff to record a charity Christmas single.

Giving Tuesday takes place the first Tuesday after Thanksgiving and is a day to give back to the community following the consumerism of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. NBCLX’s Clark Fouraker explains how you can get involved.

Celebrity chef David Chang, host of the Netflix series “Ugly Delicious” and founder of the Momofuku restaurant group, just became the first celebrity to take home the $1 million prize for charity on “Who Wants to be a Millionaire.”

Thousands of people have jammed roads for miles in Atlanta to try to get boxes of food and gift cards donated by entertainer Tyler Perry

The COVID-19 pandemic is leading to a national coin shortage and is expected to put a major dent in the charity’s main fundraiser.

Comedian John Oliver has upped the stakes in a tongue-in-cheek spat with a Connecticut city, offering to donate $55,000 to charity if officials follow through on a joke to rename its sewage treatment plant after him.

Four California high school students worked together to create the Be the Change Coloring Co., a small business that makes coronavirus coloring books to help children understand the virus. The students have already raised over $12,000 for Black Lives Matter, the CDC and other organizations.

Many Californians want to know how to help families struggling to get by as the coronavirus crisis continues — but there are crooks looking to take advantage of that generosity. Consumer investigator Chris Chmura reports.

Many Californians want to know how to help families struggling to get by as the coronavirus crisis continues — but there are crooks looking to take advantage of that generosity.

How do you really know your donations are going to make a difference? Here are some ways to make sure your money is going toward a good cause.