The Hedge Funds Weblog
Upcoming New York/San Francisco Hedge Funds Benefits
Hedge Funds Care is holding its 12th Annual New York "Open Your Heart to the Children" benefit on Thursday, February 25, 2010 at Cipriani 42nd Street.
A committee will award Michael E. …
Bill Gates Foundation contributing money to third world countries for prescription drugs
We always talk about investing money in terms of profit but very few of us are willing to spend our money for the welfare of the society without caring about business. One such person who has replaced…
World Habitat Day – Oct. 5
The United Nations has designated the first Monday each October as World Habitat Day.
This year on Oct. 5 in Washington, D.C. and around the world, Habitat for Humanity is supporting this global obse…
Charities Given a Helping Hand
The Associated Press reports; Nonprofits that are struggling because their donors lost money with Bernard Madoff are getting a bailout – but not from the government. Richer foundations are stepping in…
2008′s Biggest Hedge Fund Givers
Canada's hedge fund industry gathered in November to raise $150,000 in support of Hedge Funds Care Canada (HFCC).
Also in November, leaders across the hedge fund industry raised more than $1.7 mi…
Hedge Fund Manager Helps Cancer Victim
In BBC news, an anonymous New York hedge fund manager contacted the British cancer campaign group after hearing of the plight of Jack Rosser, 57, who could not afford a life saving cancer drug.
He wa…
Halloween Charity Bash
The 13 Ugly Men Foundation is hosting the 11th ANNUAL HALLOWEEN FREAKSHOW on Friday, October 31st, 2008 at the Sheraton Riverwalk Hotel, in Tampa, Florida this year.
Benefits will go to;
Pediatric …
The 2008 Mongol Rally
The craziest charity rally has set off from London to Mongolia!……. "Imagine yourself in the middle of the gargantuan Kazakh desert, your car slowly being shredded by the dirt track your map s…
Thank You Ocean Awards
In the green news, or rather the deep blue, one of the companies I write for received the Coastal America 2007 Partnership Award. Since I do a bit about charity (and wrote the release) I thought I'…
Hedge Funds & Habitat for Humanity Work Together
Hedge Funds for Habitat-NYC hosted an event on Friday that brought 30 volunteers from the hedge fund industry together, many with no prior construction experience, to drywall rooms, saw wood, measure …