The Canary Foundation has held a popular event during the San José Grand Prix for the past three years. The CXO and Celebrity Go-Kart Challenge event features celebrities and CEOs racing against each other in go-karts.
Only CEOs and top level executives are invited to participate in this special event. It is quite popular and this [...]

Deb Baker, a North Lake, WI resident and mystery writer, donated a portion of the sales of her new book “Goodbye Dolly” at the launch party to the Town Hall Library. Baker worked at the library from 2000 - 2005. Her book “Goodbye Dolly” is the second in a series about doll collecting. The first [...]

The 12th Annual Used Book Sale for Mississauga Symphony held from Thursday, September 19th to Sunday, September 23rd in Mississauga, (Ontario, Canada) at the Sheridan Centre. The book sale is quite large, with 54,000 books. The books are divided into 48 categories from history, sci-fi, romance and other genres.
Last year’s book sale had 20,000 books [...]

Approximately 50 teams will participate in the Race to Erase Homelessness Event, on Saturday, September 15th around Lambton County, Canada. The event is similar to the television show “The Amazing Race“. Teams will participate in 10 challenges. Challenges are timed, and the first team to complete the challenge wins the challenge — just like the [...]

Elsie Hester, 11 hosted a fundraising carnival to raise money for the Pregnancy Care Center of Southeast Texas on Friday, August 24th in Huntsville, Texas. Instead of getting the traditional birthday presents this year, Hester used birthday money to obtain a moonwalk, a slip-and-slide and food. Guests that attended the carnival gave a donation of funds [...]

The Fraternal Order of Eagles hosted a motorcycle race to benefit charity. The 54-mile race “Poker Run” raised money for research for Alzheimer’s disease and also Muscular Dystrophy. The event held on June 24th raised $2,000 for the charities. It was the largest Poker Run since the event first began three years ago.
The group, 700 [...]

Golden Eagle Pony Baseball held their annual Burrito Bingo fundraiser on Saturday, Feb. 17, at the Blue Goose Fruit Shed in Loomis, California. This popular fundraiser has been held for four years, and was inspired by a local soroptomist who holds a tostado bingo every year. Burrito Bingo is an event featuring a burrito dinner [...]

64 minature cars raced along the track at Hobbytown, U.S.A. for their charity race in Glen Burnie, Maryland on Saturday, July 7th. The event raised $870 for Race Against Abuse of Children Everywhere Foundation. While the charity race was the only “charity meet” for the racing season at Hobbytown, U.S.A., racers are at the location [...]

Does the idea of a dance marathon make you think of sock-hopping teens from the 1950’s, swaying together, trying to dance to the new sound of rock-and-roll for twenty-four hours? Well dance marathons are popular around the country, and they are an excellent way for schools to raise money and for students to show school [...]

The Caring Community Respite Care Program held thier third annual flamingo fund-raiser on Monday, July 9th, 2007. The bright plastic pink birds began their day at 9 a.m. at the Richmond Municipal Building for Mayor Sally Hutton. Hutton then was required to name the next recipient of the birds.
Some may wonder how this unusual fund-raiser [...]