Google is asking for Canadians’ help to choose the best homegrown technology for solving problems around the world, as part of its $5-million Impact Challenge contest in Canada. Canadians are encouraged to vote on the project most likely to affect major change at home and abroad, with 10 options on the table.
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As the philanthropic arm of AFP, the AFP Foundation for Philanthropy – Canada supports many programs and services through its highly successful Annual Fund, especially the Every Member Campaign, and other fundraising vehicles including Major Gifts, Planned Gifts and Endowments. French ) on the first year of the Fellowship in Inclusion and Philanthropy.
Spanish princess acquitted of tax fraud
The King of Spain’s sister, Princess Cristina, has been acquitted of being an accessory to tax fraud at the end of a year-long trial seen as a test of whether the nation’s rich and powerful are accountable to the law. Cristina’s husband, Inaki Urdangarin, was jailed for over six years on Friday on charges including fraud and tax evasion.
North Korea child labor to be discussed at U.N. meeting
The issue of North Korea child labor is to be discussed at the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child in Geneva on Friday, following multiple reports of child exploitation in the relatively isolated country. According to Human Rights Watch and three other South Korean organizations on Wednesday, rights advocates are planning to hold a preliminary meeting with U.N. officials to address the dire situation of North Korean children and adolescents.
FBI recovers artwork stolen by Nazis in WWII
Young Man as Bacchus was one of hundreds of works confiscated by the Nazis from a German art dealer before World War II. Max Stern was the son of a German Jewish art collector who set up the famous Gallery Stern in Dusseldorf before World War I. When his father died in 1934, Dr Stern took ownership of the gallery, but two years later the Nazis forced him and other Jewish people to hand over their art and other assets.
Enormous Sigmund Freud collection available online for the first time
In 1859, a Jewish wool and textile merchant from Moravia tried to immigrate to Leipzig, Germany, with his wife, toddler son and infant daughter.
Business Rx: This farming start-up seeks help cultivating advisors to help it grow
This week, a start-up that helps farmers in emerging economies find markets for their goods seeks advice on how to assemble an advisory board.- Dan Beyers After graduating from Brown University in 2007 with a degree in Business Economics, Ashley King-Bischof spent a season playing professional basketball in Europe. The travel for games piqued her interest in exploring more of the world.
FEATURE-In Rio’s oldest favela, a cable car ferries residents -…
Perched on a hill beside the concrete skyscrapers of Rio’s central business district stands the city’s oldest favela whose rising – and now declining – fortunes mirror those of Brazil itself. First established by landless veterans fresh from putting down an uprising in northeastern Brazil in 1897, Morro da Providencia is considered Rio’s first informal settlement or favela.
Photo Flash: Cultural Council of Palm Beach County Welcomes 140 Fans…
Rena Blades , President & Chief Executive Officer of the Cultural Council of Palm Beach County, today announced that the second Conversation of this season’s CULTURE & COCKTAILS series attracted more than 140 people last Monday to The Colony Hotel Pavilion, located at 155 Hammon Avenue in Palm Beach . , a conversation with two star appraisers from Antiques Roadshow on PBS: Kathleen Guzman , Managing Director/New York from Heritage Auctions, andNicholas Dawes, Heritage’s Vice President of Special Collections.
70% of plastic bags found to carry false labels: consumer group
Ten out of 14 types of plastic bags sold in grocery stores, convenience stores and shopping centers have been found be carrying false labels marking them as biodegradable and environmentally friendly, the Taipei-based Consumers’ Foundation said Wednesday. The plastic bags in question break into tiny pieces during the natural process of degradation, but are nevertheless promoted as biodegradable, said Ling Young-chien , chief inspector of the foundation, a non-profit organization devoted to consumers’ rights.