Dublin – Cluster bomb suvivors and campaigners are tonight rejoicing over the groundbreaking and comprehensive new treaty to ban cluster bombs that has just been provisionally agreed in Dublin. After ten days of intense negotiation under Irish leadership, 110 countries negotiating at the conference and hundreds of campaigners and survivors within the Cluster Munition Coalition [...]

FAIRFIELD, Conn – Survey Sampling International (SSI) announces a charitable campaign to support children and families devastated by the recent natural disasters in China and in Myanmar, formerly known as Burma.
SSI’s In Our Thoughts Campaign for Asia will donate up to $10,000 each week for five weeks from late May through June to the Red [...]

YANGON, Myanmar – In the wake of Cyclone Nargis, the International SOS Yangon Clinic in Myanmar continues to assist clients — including businesses, NGOs, Embassies and private citizens — with their health and security needs. This work has included advising aid organizations such as the World Health Organization, UNICEF and others on post-disaster health risks, [...]

AN OPEN LETTER FROM THE SAVE THE SUMMER FLOUNDER FISHERY FUND TO THE AMERICAN SPORTFISHING ASSOCIATION
To the Board of Directors of ASA:
We were disappointed to read, through a press release, the American Sportfishing Association’s response to our request to support Rep. Frank Pallone’s bill, HR 5425, the Flexibility in Rebuilding American Fisheries Act of 2008.
This [...]

Kigali, Rwanda/Washington, D.C – IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, will support lending to schools and education services providers in Rwanda, in partnership with Banque Rwandaise de Développement. This is the first initiative of its kind in Rwanda, which is designed to help improve the business environment for private education.
IFC will invest [...]

LITTLEFIELD, TX – Purchasing environmentally friendly denim is just a mouse click away, according to American Cotton Growers (ACG) in Littlefield, Texas. The new internet store was created for manufacturers of apparel, home furnishings, crafts, and fabric retailers that need smaller volumes of fabrics. Known as SAFEDenim (Sustainable, American and Friendly to the Environment), the [...]

CHICAGO – Liquidus, a pioneer of video-based classified advertising, today announced the official launch of new products based on its revolutionary video-based classified advertising technology platform for VOD. The company has been flying under the radar since 2005, when it began working with Comcast Spotlight to help forge this advertising niche in the video-on-demand (VOD) [...]

auctionPAL.com, the premier service for helping users sell items online, is making it easier for consumers to join the fundraising efforts for Myanmar and China by turning unused items into charitable donations. Consumers can donate items online at www.auctionPAL.com/donate and the proceeds generated from the sale of these items will be directed to charities in [...]

LONDON – Revonergy Plc, An independent power producer from renewable energy fuel, has today announced a MOU with the Ondo State Government of Nigeria, to build a waste to energy power plant.
The 14MW power plant will be fuelled by wood waste and sawdust that is generated from the sawmill industry. The electricity that is produced [...]

SPRINGFIELD, VA – The Methuselah Foundation is pleased to announce that Roger Holzberg, formerly Award winning Vice President/Creative Director at the Walt Disney Company (first at Disney Interactive, then at Imagineering), has joined the Methuselah Foundation as Chief Marketing Officer. Mr. Holzberg is taking the lead in honing the Methuselah Foundation’s marketing strategy as it [...]

ST. LOUIS – Amphibian Ark, a global conservation organization formed in an effort to help save the world’s amphibians from mass extinction, is announcing its first frog naming rights auction, beginning immediately. The highest bid made on www.CharityBuzz.com will win the naming rights to a newly discovered species in the genus Osornophryne, an endangered “walking [...]

NEW YORK – Carlos Santana, SONY BMG’s ICON Collectibles and CharityFolks.com are auctioning the opportunity to meet Carlos Santana and attend his sold out performance at the Fillmore in his home town of San Francisco on May 21st.
Two auction packages are available online (for either two or four tickets) at www.charityfolks.com/santana now through Monday, May [...]

Germany – Berlin / Dresden – Developed in close cooperation between Transinsight, Dresden, and the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Berlin, the knowledge-based semantic search engine Go3R.org is now available online. It enables information transparency for the prevention of animal testing.
In only four months development time, Transinsight from Dresden, Germany, succeeded in making available [...]

PHILADELPHIA, PA – The Franklin, Pennsylvania’s most-visited museum, has received two $1 million gifts, from The Hamilton Family Foundation and The Sunoco Foundation respectively, to create a new “Changing Earth” exhibit. Slated to open in fall of 2009, this ongoing exhibit will feature the latest in exhibit technology and advances in environmental science to explore [...]

Myanmar people are thankful to Pakistani people for their support and relief efforts’ said Myanmar Ambassador H.E U. Tin. Oo in a meeting with Muslim Aid Country Director
‘We are appealing for relief goods like blankets, medicines and infants clothes’ appealed Myanmar Ambassador in a meeting with Muslim Aid Country Director
Myanmar Ambassador H.E U. Tin. Oo [...]