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Homeless Chicago Man Donates Thousands to Down-On-Her-Luck BankerCraig Wall My FOX Chicago 05/11/2011 | Lady Gaga, Robin Hood Raise $47 Million to Help New York’s Poor, VeteransPatrick Cole Bloomberg.com 05/09/2011 |
 A year ago, everything was going right for a woman we'll call Sandy. She had a good job at a bank in the suburbs. She and her 10-year-old son had a safe home. But then the world came crashing down around the 39-year-old. She lost her job. She lost her house. And she and her son moved into her truck. Police found her and DCFS threatened to take away her son if she didn't find a safe place to stay. |  The Robin Hood Foundation gala, Wall Street’s largest single-evening fundraising event, had Lady Gaga onstage and took in $47.4 million last night at its annual New York dinner. |
$50 million bounty for Osama Bin Laden should go to 9/11 victims, New York pols sayEriin Durkin AND Alison Gendar New York Daily News 05/08/2011 | New York plans charity law reform to cut red tapeMichelle Nichols Reuters 04/26/2011 |
 The $50 million bounty on Osama bin Laden's head should go to victims' of his murderous plot, federal lawmakers said Sunday. |  New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced plans on Tuesday to reform cumbersome laws and regulations burdening the state's charities in a bid to ease what he called a looming funding crisis. |
Madonna's Foundation for Malawi Girls School CollapsesADAM NAGOURNEY The New York Times 03/24/2011 | Canadian couple gives away entire $11.2M lottery jackpot Lottery Post 11/04/2010 |
 A high-profile charitable foundation set up to build a school for impoverished girls in Malawi, founded by the singer Madonna and fellow devotees of a prominent Jewish mysticism movement, has collapsed after spending $3.8 million on a project that never came to fruition. |  A Nova Scotia couple won $11.2 million from a lottery ticket in July and now every penny is gone. But Allen and Violet Large of Lower Truro didn't spend any of it on themselves. They say they decided to take care of family, organizations and institutions instead. |
Bono, Medvedev talk charity over tea by the seaDAVID NOWAK Yahoo! News 08/24/2010 | Social Media Storm Helps Grant Dying Boy's Wish NY1 08/05/2010 |
 Russia's rock-music-loving president hosted Bono, the frontman of the Irish band U2, at his resplendent residence near the Black Sea resort of Sochi on Tuesday, and praised him for writing music "that unites generations." |  A 10-year-old Canadian boy fighting a life-threatening illness will get to fulfill one of his final wishes of racing through Central Park. But the special trip almost didn't happen, after the airline damaged his wheelchair. |
Warren Buffett and Bill Gates Announce Campaign To Get Billionaires To Give Away Half Their WealthCarol J. Loomis CNN 06/16/2010 | Warren Buffett's Charity-Lunch Auction Draws Bid of $51000Andrew Frye BusinessWeek 06/08/2010 |
 Just over a year ago, in May 2009, word leaked to the press that the two richest men in America, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, had organized and presided over a confidential dinner meeting of billionaires in New York City. David Rockefeller was said to have been a host, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Oprah Winfrey to have been among those attending, and philanthropy to have been the main subject. |  Warren Buffett’s annual lunch auction, a chance to clink Cherry Cokes with the world’s third- richest person, drew a high bid of $51,000 in the second day of the weeklong charity event. |
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