After last week's riots and fires in Baltimore, an overwhelming number of people have reached out to local nonprofits saying they want to help. At Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Greater Chesapeake, that's meant a 3,000 percent increase in volunteer inquiries, said Terry Hickey, the organization's president and CEO. "We usually get about four inquiries a day. In the past two days, we've had about 300," Hickey told The Daily Record.

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(AP) Nonprofit experts say the national drive known as “Giving Tuesday” is having a growing impact, with nearly $46 million raised for charitable groups this week. Research from Indiana University’s Lilly Family School of Philanthropy and the Case Foundation provided ...

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If there’s one thing Sandy Pagnotti hates, it’s a waiting list. But if all goes according to plan, the president and CEO of Ronald McDonald House Charities of Baltimore Inc. will be able to say goodbye to the dreaded list, which Pagnotti said contains a never-ending supply of names of families clamoring for a spot in the house.

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NEW YORK — A year after Superstorm Sandy sent more than six feet of ocean water into their ice cream store and destroyed everything inside, Brian and Michelle McMullin are still waiting to hear if they’ll get grant money from ...

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WASHINGTON — Widespread destruction from Superstorm Sandy will likely make for the largest U.S. relief effort by the American Red Cross and others since Hurricane Katrina. By Friday, the Red Cross had raised $117 million in donations and pledges. The ...

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These are difficult times for many in our community. Unemployment remains high, paychecks don’t go very far, and every day it seems another public service is being curtailed in the interest of budget cuts. That’s why the kinds of innovative ...

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In spite of gains over the recent decades, inequities in income, employment, educational attainment, housing and business ownership rates persist between African-American and white communities at both the national and local levels. To address this, Associated Black Charities of Maryland ...

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Each year on Nov. 15, our country celebrates National Philanthropy Day, the occasion set aside to recognize and pay tribute to the great contributions that philanthropy — and those people active in the philanthropic community — have made to our ...

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The holiday season may become less cheery and charitable outside of some area grocery stores this year. Giant Food has instituted a new policy that will limit to 12 the number of days that the Salvation Army can solicit donations ...

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