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The International Committee for the Children of Chechnya (ICCC, based in Cambridge, MA) is a nonprofit that was founded by three American women in 1996 to work on behalf of child victims of the war in Chechnya. The ICCC idea was inspired by the Mother’s March for Life and Compassion in 1995, in which Russian [...]

Austin, Texas-based A Glimmer of Hope Foundation (AGHF) was founded in 2000 when Donna and Philip Berber funded AGHF with a $100-million endowment from their personal funds to provide aid to Ethiopia, and is now providing programs for London and Austin at-risk youth. Business Week magazine has listed the Berbers on their “50 Most Generous Philanthropists” list.
From the year 2000 [...]

European athletes are becoming more popular in the USA. David Beckham, Dirk Nowitzki, Tony Parker, Maria Sharapova, Roger Federer and Annika Sorenstam are some of the more famous and well known Europeans in American.
The American professional basketball league (NBA) and hockey league (NHL) have a large number of Europeans playing on their professional teams. Dirk Nowitzki of Germany [...]

Hundreds of European entertainers (singers and actors) are very popular in the USA. From English speaking countries in Europe (United Kingdom, Ireland), there are just too many famous singers and actors to mention on the list below. But other European entertainers are also very well known by American people.
Below is a list of some of the people [...]

Greek wildfires this week have killed over 63 people, destroyed many homes. left many homeless, and destroyed forests throughout Greece. Among the many ways to contribute is directly thru a Greek Foreign Ministry office in Chicago.
The World Council of Hellenes Abroad (SAE) (U.S.A. Regional Office in Chicago), a Greek government sponsored organization providing services for Greek immigrants [...]

Women for Women International, headquartered in Washington DC, has an interesting mission to provide “women survivors of war, civil strife and other conflicts with the tools and resources to move from crisis and poverty to stability and self-sufficiency, thereby promoting viable civil societies”.
Operating in such countries as Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Democratic Republic of [...]