Citywealth - Charity & Philanthropy Articles
22 Aug 2008
Women's Funding Network Georgia
"Due to the severe situation, many people continue to flee conflict zones and the regions of Georgia. The approximate number of people forced to leave their homes is now at 40,000. Most of the internally displaced people are in Tbilisi now and seek shelter and support." Read more...
08 Aug 2008
The art of peace and charitable trust dinner
A letter and invitation from Michael R Bloomberg Read more...
06 Jun 2008
Obama in the Whitehouse and the effects for investors
"UHNW's will be fine. Oil companies will lose tax breaks and regulations in the business and financial world will be enforced. It will be like cough medicine. It will taste bad, but it will be good for you." Read more...
23 May 2008
Amber Rocks fundraiser
A staggering £500k raised in support of young homeless people. This is the latest update following the recent fundraising ‘Amber Rocks’ party hosted at Frankie’s Bar in Knightsbridge, London by Formula One icon Eddie Jordan and Michelin Star chefMarco Pierre White. Celebrities including Damon Hill, Barry McGuigan, Ross Kemp, Mike Rutherford, Roger Taylor and Nick Mason contributed generously to an evening of musical performances and fundraising for the Amber Foundation, the UK charity established to help disadvantaged young people rebuild their lives to independence. Read more...
15 May 2008
Aquaverde - safeguarding water resources in the Amazon region
The goal of Aquaverde is safeguard water resources in the Amazon region. This biodiversity treasure is a center piece of the world's climatic regulation which transforms most of the carbonic gas into oxygen. The Amazon river and its hundreds of affluents, make up for one fourth of the planet's fresh water and play a crucial role on the rain cycle through the evapo-transpiration of trees. Read more...
09 May 2008
Simon Rae in Hong Kong: Asian private wealth and philanthropy
Of the amounts of wealth in the region, he says it isn’t unusual for locals to have amassed fortunes of $20billion.“There is a lot of money in quoted stocks and companies that they control which generate substantial income.” Read more...
04 Apr 2008
Inés Alberdi of Spain is the new Executive Director of the United Nations Development Fund for Women, UNIFEM
UNIFEM is the women's fund at the United Nations. It provides financial and technical assistance to innovative programmes and strategies to foster women's empowerment and gender equality. Placing the advancement of women's human rights at the centre of all of its efforts, UNIFEM focuses its activities on reducing feminized poverty; ending violence against women; reversing the spread of HIV/AIDS among women and girls; and achieving gender equality in democratic governance in times of peace as well as war. Read more...
01 Feb 2008
Invest in women to end global poverty
The Global Resources and Opportunities for Women to Thrive Act (GROWTH) addresses some of the most crippling and unequal obstacles women face in earning an income. By shaping U.S. assistance and trade policy to empower women, it would provide women in poor countries with the tools they need to lift their families out of poverty: tools such as equal property rights, help starting and growing small businesses, access to credit, fair and equal wages and working conditions, and access to global trade. Read more...
01 Feb 2008
PEACE AND SPORT creates a GRAND PRIX for the best sport fraternity image of the year
PEACE AND SPORT is an international organisation promoting peace through sport, launched the Peace and Sport Grand Prix for the best sports photography of the year, rewarding annually the best image featuring fraternization through sport. Read more...
25 Jan 2008
Room to Read and Penny Lovell, FF&P
The charity builds schools and libraries, offer scholarships to girls and publishes quality local language children’s books. Read more...
