Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott gave $7.1 billion to hundreds of nonprofits and charities last year, a significant increase over previous years. “Since my post last December, I’ve given $7,166,000,000 to organizations doing work all over the world,” she wrote in a recent blog post on her website Yield Giving. Scott reported she had donated $2.6 billion in […]

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Travel teaches many lessons, and for famous American travel writer Rick Steves, one of those is that “Love thy neighbor” need not depend on proximity. The biblical phrase has been on Steves’ mind of late, following his philanthropic rescue of a community hygiene center where those struggling to provide a basic living for themselves could […]

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GNN reported recently that a Los Angeles auction house recently handled the sale of three paintings by the famous TV artist Bob Ross, with the proceeds of over $600,000 going to fund public television and radio. Inspired by the effort, HBO’s comedy news host John Oliver announced that he too had an original Ross that […]

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Two musical pieces written by Johann Sebastian Bach were recently performed for the first time ever, more than 300 years after they were composed. Both written for the organ, they are believed to date from the great composer’s very early career, when he worked as a organ tutor in Thuringia. Germany’s Culture Minister Wolfram Weimer […]

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