I was in California Pizza Kitchen (CPK) the other day and spied this handcard as the waiter presented me with the bill.The offer is straightforward. Have a party at CPK and they’ll kick back 20 percent of the total sales to your charity. Tags: California Pizza Kitchen Charity Member Lists

The Transformers beauty hopped behind the bar at Sonny McLean's Irish Pub in Santa Monica, California, on October 2 to benefit the charity Team Stacie. The Biddery Blog: How to get a celebrity sponsor for your charity. Tags: Charity Highlight celebrity charity auction

New York, the District of Columbia, Utah, California, and Connecticut. Tags: giving philanthropy index charity Nonprofit states Thanksgiving is done with (hope yours was peaceful and happy), and we're now officially into the Holiday Season. of generosity. And the top five states for charitable giving are.

Care 2.com is an activist organizing, California based, non profit that provides subscribers the opportunity to sign Internet petitions or e-mail representatives about current issues that concerns its members. You may keep the money or donate it to the charity of your choice. To quote their e-mail, Care2.com has ".partnered

the author of Charity Registration: State-by-State Guidelines for Compliance , to provide this guest blog post for you. These are all examples of solicitations under the Charity Registration laws.  There are civil penalties in California, New York, Illinois and many others.  California does not.  Did We Say “OK?&#.

If you’ve never attended a trivia night, check out the video below (skip to 0:51) to see how one English pub in Los Angeles, California, successfully runs its trivia night. Lots of bars and pubs hold trivia nights. Bars and pubs often hold trivia nights on a regular basis, which allows friendly rivalries between teams develop.

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[Blogger's Note: What follows is a letter I received from a startup nonprofit asking for advice on how to get an HIV/AIDS charity off the ground along with my response.]I Located in Riverside, California I just recently returned from Nigeria, where I was taken to two villages to hear of their concerns for the villagers and children.

Allegations that the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angles, California has operated at a deficit for 75% of the time, during the last eight years swarmed the philanthropy media, at the end of last week. The California attorney general's office is now, due to these potential legal discrepancies, auditing the Museum of Contemporary Art.

Governor Schwarzenegger and wife Maria Shriver have worked hard to get California to appoint a Service Director to its cabinet level--and both McCain and Obama vowed to add this position to their cabinets at the federal levels as well. Corporations can make it easier for workers to dedicate a portion of their time to charities. And on.