Displaying items by tag: Charity

App wizards and tech-heads take note, the auDA Foundation is now accepting applications for grants in the 2013 funding round.

If you'd like to enjoy a coffee date with Apple CEO Tim Cook you might have to mortgage your home, as bidding has passed the $200,000 mark.

Those kind folk over at the Humble Bundle have done it again, offering up some real nice PC games for a ridiculously small price, and a ridiculously good cause.

Homepage for the Homeless can be a way for you to support a charity whist in the midst of the gift-giving frenzy period.

Careful with your cynic meter when you read this story, can a big telco actually be interested in running a charity event that will make a positive difference in the lives of those in need?  Can the challenge of App Aid, a 48 hour software coding event, result in a smartphone applications that can make the world a better place?

Telco Together, a new telco industry charity focused on disadvantaged communities - founded by M2 Telecoms CEO, Vaughan Bowen - was launched last week at the ACOMM Awards dinner in Sydney, with NBN Co CEO Mike Quigley as chairman of its advisory board.

CEOs from many businesses in Sydney, including several from the ICT industry armed with a large piece of cardboard but nothing resembling a mattress, recently braved the elements overnight to take part in the annual CEO Vinnies sleepout to raise money for the St Vincent de Paul Society charity and to raise awareness of homelessness.

The UK is back in recession, but let's all try and be positive

Small to Medium business, associations and Not-For-Profit organisations are looking toward the cloud to reduce costs in this difficult economic climate.

Virgin Mobile's Covers for a Cause let you show your support for The Salvation Army's Oasis Youth Support Network Sydney.

Australian based Nuix, releases 'limited edition' eDiscovery technology solution, Proof Finder, enabling lawyers and investigators to handle small cases, with 100 per cent of proceeds going to the charity Room to Read.

Following last year's successful eSmiles campaign, HP is preparing to donate $75,000 to Ronald McDonald Houses around Australia and New Zealand.

Today is One Dollar Day, and the fundraising campaign is being backed by PayPal which is covering administration costs so that 100% of donations reach the charity.

The Children's Medical Research Institute (CMRI) has partnered with TechnologyOne to develop new fundraising software and has already achieved outstanding results for its Jeans for Genes® Day on Friday 5 August 2011.

The Alfred P Sloan Foundation has made a second $US3 million grant of $3 million to the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organisation behind Wikipedia.

Semper Software, the leader in Windows and Linux software continuity, will be supporting a team in the upcoming 2011 Amsterdam-Dakar Challenge for Charity. The goal of this rally, which covers more than 7,200 kilometers through endless, dusty deserts, is to raise as much money as possible for charity.

No, the Raspberry Pi Foundation isn't blowing raspberries at you, they're offering you a $25 Linux powered computer instead, that'll fit in your pocket and make Nicholas Negroponte wonder why he didn't do it first.

HP has contributed $100,000 to the Good Friday Appeal for Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital, and in the process gained some useful publicity for its ePrint service.

WeFeedback brings a new dimension to donating money: it relates the cost of donors' favourite food items with the number of children that can be fed for the same amount of money, and also taps the power of social networking.

The traditional Good Friday Appeal in aid of Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital is just days away. This year, HP is adding a hi-tech touch to the proceedings - any you can help, wherever you are in the world.