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California donors from Silicon Valley, Hollywood, and businesses are helping Democratic Senate candidates to swamp GOP campaigns, according to a report by the Los Angeles Times.

Robert Ray Barnes said the non-profit foundation he founded to improve relations between the police and the black community has no connection to the political organization Black Lives Matter, but his organization has had donations directed to it from some confusing the two entities.

Ever since he was six years old, a North Carolina boy has been setting aside birthday money to donate it to cancer research.

Two donors are making generous donations to healthcare workers in Charleston, South Carolina, during the coronavirus pandemic.

The Knights of Columbus, the world’s largest Catholic fraternal group, launched a multi-million-dollar food drive and delivery operation Tuesday, mobilizing its 1.25 million members in the United States to aid food banks in over 20 cities during the coronavirus crisis.

Food truck workers in Sacramento, California, are making sure their most vulnerable community members do not go hungry during the coronavirus pandemic.

The Kennedy Center, recipient of $25 in Coronavirus relief funding, furloughed 96 members of the National Symphony Orchestra on Friday.

Disneyland Resort may be closed due to the coronavirus, but that does not mean it is not doing what it can to help the surrounding community in need.

An Oklahoma girl decided that for her ninth birthday, she wanted to give to presents to others instead of receiving them just for herself.

On Monday, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center announced the largest single donation it has ever received.

“Other people are using their dog, their charisma, their whatever,” she said. “I think it’s an appropriate question to raise. But I don’t think it’s disqualifying for anyone to invest in fixing America.”

Massive amounts of uneaten food from Sunday’s Super Bowl LIV game at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami, Florida, is being distributed to local shelters. 

Several top officials from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) said that the school made “significant” errors in “judgement” by taking $850,000 in contributions from Jeffrey Epstein, according to an internal review.

Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) campaign raised more than $1 million on Thursday, the same day as the Democrat debate in Los Angeles, California, his campaign announced this week.

An anonymous donor is making sure needy families in Austin, Texas, are able to move forward with their lives. 

A businessman in Cary, North Carolina, recently made it his mission to ensure service members spent the holidays with their families this year. 

A Massachusetts widow received more than $126,000 in donations to help pay off her mortgage after she fell behind her mortgage payments following her husband’s death.

Kansas City Royals left fielder Alex Gordon was on hand with milk and cookies to sign autographs on Sunday in exchange for donations to a local domestic violence shelter.

An anonymous donor in Savannah, Georgia, who felt very generous this holiday season gave 72 acres of land to a horseback riding facility that works with the disabled.

The Clinton Foundation’s revenue has dropped to a 16-year low, spending more than it took in last year, according to its 2018 tax return which reported just $30.7 million in revenue.

Donda Mullis and Ronnie Shugar are using their “raw sugar” soap business to offer the homeless some dignity.

Apple CEO Tim Cook said his company will contribute $2.5 billion to help the state of California deal with lack of affordable housing.

Billionaire David Rubenstein has donated $10 million to fund much-needed upgrades to the Thomas Jefferson Memorial in Washington, DC.

It is not about the money, but about what is in the heart, NBA legend Michael Jordan said Thursday at the opening of a medical clinic in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) campaign raised a massive $25.3 million in the third quarter, according to the campaign total released Tuesday.

The Trump campaign raised a massive $15 million in small-dollar donations following Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) announcement of the Democrat-led House impeachment inquiry against President Trump, Eric Trump announced on Friday.

Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, who was arrested in New York on Saturday and later charged with sex trafficking involving dozens of girls, donated thousands of dollars to Democrat candidates and left-leaning committees from 1990 until 2018, according to OpenSecrets.org.

Donors have left the Clinton Foundation in the dust one year after Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 presidential election to President Donald Trump, according to the organization’s latest federal tax filings.

According to a report from the Crimson, the Harvard Asian-American discrimination trial will make an impact on donations made by alumni to the university — but whether it will a positive or negative impact depends on who you ask.

New York media billionaire Mike Bloomberg is giving the Democratic candidates another $20 million, spotlighting the Democrats’ huge funding advantage in the 2018 elections. 

House Democrats have raised more than twice as much campaign cash as their GOP rivals for a spending binge in the final stretch of the 2018 campaign, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

A flood of donations has allowed Democratic candidates to outspend GOP candidates by almost 2:1 in 80 competitive districts since July, according to an analysis by the Associated Press. 

Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) demanded Thursday that his Democratic opponent, Ammar Campa-Najjar, return a $250.00 donation he received last year from Palestinian ambassador Feda Abdelhady Nasser, Deputy Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine [sic] to the United Nations.

BuzzFeed News has joined the Guardian and the Washington Post in requesting donations in order to fund its newsroom, asking readers to “help us report to you.”

The Facebook scandal over selling customers’ deepest secrets for huge amounts of cash has accelerated signature-gathering efforts for a “Privacy Act” initiative on California’s ballot.

Donations to the NRA’s political action committee in February surged to three times what they were in January as Parkland gun control activists and media outlets blamed the NRA for “gun violence.”