Neil and Pegi Young’s Bridge School in Hillsborough, California, was a much-needed, one-of-a-kind school for children with severe speech and physical impairments when it opened in...
Many people get behind causes and charities and musicians are often asked to become spokespeople, "ambassadors" or simply perform at a fundraising event when they reach even a modicum of...
Vancouver singer-songwriter Hannah Georgas, and 2011 new artist Juno Award nominee, is hoping to do more with the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation once she has more time. Her father...
Two days after Duane Rutter played acoustic guitar for 48 hours to raise funds in honour of his mother, who died of cancer 10 years ago, and he was back at his day job.
“I've...
A youth initiative to empower girls is expanding its scope with an in-school live “television” presentation entitled 411 TV. The 411 Initiative For Change organization,...
It isn't often that a husband gets to fulfill a wife's dying wish as passionately and successfully as Terry Eagan has over the past decade with the introduction of Mary Eagan Healing Gardens...
Beady Eye, the new band from former Oasis members, including frontman Liam Gallagher, is continuing its support of a charity that helps young people fight cancer.
“We’re behind the...
Toronto-based filmmaker Kathleen Mullen knows a thing or two about bittersweet success.
Her latest film, the gripping documentary Breathtaking, investigates the Canadian asbestos industry. Valued...
The Hope Rising! benefit concert, dinner and roundtable discussion, May 3 at The Sony Centre for Performing Arts in Toronto, is a brand new fundraising event for The Stephen Lewis Foundation to help...
We hear the words corporate social responsibility a lot and see corporate logos at all kinds of charity events or on product packaging, but we don’t usually hear the dollar figures or find out...