Wedding Charity Maven Quietly Steals $5.1 Million From Her Job
Lots of people Social-Media-On-Company-Time-level hate their jobs. Many Badmouth-Their-Employer-To-Their-Friends level hate their jobs. Fewer still Steal-Shit-From-Work level hate their jobs. But one Maryland woman wins: she stole $5.1 million from her job over years... all while running a charity for military brides.…
The Daily Show Is Auctioning Off The 'Sexy Vagina' Costume For Charity
Last week, Kristen Schaal made everyone pee a little with her hilarious Daily Show spot on the logical evolution of sexy Halloween costumes (as well as her accusation that Jon Stewart "fucks pizzas"). And now, TDS is auctioning off the gorgeous yet somewhat disturbing centerpiece of that segment — the "sexy vagina"…
Romeo Rose Needs You to Help Him Pay His Electric Bill
Hey, laaaaydeeeeez who are not currently fat or black or all stretched out in the vagiiiiiiner! Romeo Rose is back, he still wants your (130-lbs-or-less) boday, and this time he's bringing a little something extra to the table. A little something called "negative $400 and a refrigerator full of spoiled food." Yeah. I…
Diana Nyad Will Swim a Mere 48 Continuous Hours for Sandy Relief
For her next feat of strength, modern-day folk hero Diana Nyad will swim for 48 hours straight in a giant tank outside of Macy’s at Herald Square in New York, surrounded by celebrities and bitter jellyfish that have journeyed all the way up from Florida to see Nyad fail (tentacles crossed that she won’t).
No, it's not a plot from a Jules Verne novel. It's real: Prince Harry and Alexander Skarsgard are racing to the South Pole. Who's your money on?
Recently, Justin Long went to Nicaragua to support The Girls Home, which looks to be a very deserving charity for orphan girls who have been abused or lived with caretakers who "struggle to provide for them as they themselves may have been affected by a life of drug addiction or prostitution." He admits his support…
Six-Year-Old Girl Who Was Shot in the Face by the Taliban Gets Free Reconstructive Surgery in the U.S.
Plastic surgery isn't just about turning ordinary humans into animorphs or ensuring that a Colombian drug lord who's been blackmailing your plastic surgery practice has reconstructive surgery to look like a convicted pedophile wanted by the FBI — it can also be about helping the innocent victims of war-torn countries,…
Swimming With Ryan Lochte Is the New Swimming with Dolphins
Only four days left to hop into the blue and get gnarly with Ryan Lochte. I'm pretty sure that's what he calls doing laps for Hurricane Sandy relief. What a man! The auction is at $9,500 right now so you gotta act fast while it's reasonable and totally worth it.
Lil Bub & Andrew WK Ask You to Donate to Your Local Animal Shelter This Holiday Season
It should come as no surprise that two entities as joyful and positive as Andrew WK and Lil Bub coming together for a good cause would create even more joy and positivity, but you might still be taken aback by just how heartwarming it is when it finally happens. Thanks to Vice, the pair have united to ask that you…
Meryl Streep Turns Selfie Into Something Awesome
Remember this image of Meryl Streep and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at the State Department Dinner for the Kennedy Center Honors gala? Well, the picture Streep took with her iPhone isn't just sitting in her photostream doing nothing. Streep has listed the image on Shutter to Think. From the site:
Holiday Gifts for the Truly Charitable Do-Gooder in Your Life
What do you, the most unabashedly selfish and inconsiderate member of your friend group, buy this holiday season for that one person in your life whose giving is not restricted by our Gregorian calendar? To defeat the charitable people in the world, we must first understand the charitable people in the world, and the…
The Charitable Humblebrag: Acts of Goodwill in the Age of Social Media
There's a silver lining to Hurricane Sandy's destruction: New Yorkers are actually being nice to one another! Not that we're normally not nice; it's just that during times of crisis such as this, you get to see the best side of New York's residents. Especially because said residents are all too happy to tell you about…
Texas Woman Beats the Breast Milk Donation Record by a Dizzying 23 Gallons
A woman from northern Texas has just obliterated the Guinness world record for donated breast milk by untapping her bounteous milk ducts and pouring forth 86.8 gallons of sustenance. The cup of infants everywhere indeed runneth over.
Remember Wyclef's Haiti Charity? Angry Haitians Are Having a Hard Time Forgetting.
How badly did hip-hop celeb/liar Wyclef Jean fuck up his charity efforts in Haiti? So badly that the New York Times published a lengthy A-1 story that probably only skims the surface of his mismanaged, dysfunctional charity, Yéle. Wyclef, who was born in Haiti, founded Yéle in 2004, but it only had $37,000 in assets…
Guns For the Cure® Probably Won't Cure Breast Cancer®, Either
Now, I'm not a science expert here, and I'm not a gun expert, either, but it seems slightly "off" to have a gun club sponsor an event with proceeds that benefit notorious pinkwasher Susan G. Komen For the Cure® during Breast Cancer Awareness Month. I mean, guns kill lots of people, much like breast cancer, so guns and…
Chicago’s ‘Milk Ladies’ Are Still Delivering Formula After 30 Years
The so-called "milk ladies," the founders of a nonprofit group based in Winnekta, Illinois, have made it their mission for the past 30 years to deliver cases of brand-name formula to Chicago mothers who cannot afford to feed their children. Infant Inc., the official name of the milk ladies' nonprofit, also delivers…
Even Local Komen Affiliates That Disagreed With Planned Parenthood Defunding Getting Screwed
Susan G. Komen For the Cure's decision to defund Planned Parenthood and the charity's subsequent lying about why they did it should be a case study for aspiring philanthropists on how not to handle a public relation's crisis (or an aspiring clueless rich lady's guide on how to make Regulars hate you). But when the…

