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Salvation Army officials in Las Vegas said Wednesday they were surprised to find a valuable gold coin among the dollar bills, nickels, dimes and quarters in one of the organization’s iconic red charity fundraising kettles.

Every Emmy Award handed out Sunday will come with something extra — a $100,000 donation to fight child hunger.

Actress Angelina Jolie surprised two young best friends from London, when she made an “extremely generous” donation to their lemonade stand raising funds for war-torn Yemen.

Donations from Chicagoans have kept a not-for-profit food pantry feeding those in need and keeping local restaurants in business. NBC 5 Kye Martin reports.

The NFL and its Players Coalition announced they will gift $250,000 to support the work of Cook County Health in caring for communities of color impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Debra Carey, Interim CEO for Cook County Health said in a statement that social justice and health equity are at the core of Cook County Health’s mission. “(The donation) brings…

Mayor Lori Lightfoot and the Chicago Office of Emergency Management are hosting a city-wide cloth mask donation drive where Chicago residents are encouraged to create and give homemade masks for the city’s most vulnerable. The cloth drive, “Chicago Together! Make a Mask, Give a Mask, Wear a Mask” will begin this Saturday, April 25 and go through Saturday, May 16….

Threadless, an apparel company and online artist community, is offering up custom face masks for shoppers with 100% of the proceeds going to a non-profit that recovers medical supplies for hospitals in need. Threadless added face masks to their inventory on April 14 and have sold nearly 14,000 masks, raising over $67,000 for MedShare. Their goal is currently $100,000. MedShare…

McDonald’s will donate one million N95 masks across Illinois as the state battles a growing number of coronavirus cases, the fast food chain announced Monday. The masks will first go to first responders and healthcare professionals “in our home city and state where critical protective gear is in short supply,” McDonald’s said in a release. “Our company has a...

On Sunday Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced Illinois will expand eligibility of the state’s childcare assistance program to all essential workers.

An $80,000 Walmart layaway donation made by Chicago Bear Khalil Mack over the holidays was not handled properly, the company said Tuesday. Details on what exactly went wrong with the transaction weren’t immediately released, but Walmart said an “extensive internal review” found “the store did not handle the transaction in keeping with Walmart’s guidelines.” “We appreciate Khalil Mack’s generosity...

Chicago Bears’ Khalil Mack made a generous donation of more than 80 thousand dollars by paying off all of the layaway accounts at his hometown Walmart in Fort Pierce, Florida.

A New Jersey couple bought 247 pairs of shoes at a closing Payless store and donated them to women and children in need.

A North Texas pastor said Ivanka Trump made a donation to his church to help migrant children at the border.

A grenade was found in a box of donated items dropped off Wednesday at a Placentia Goodwill thrift store, prompting evacuations and a bomb squad response.

A Chicago lawyer who donated $500 to former U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock’s campaign is suing for reimbursement following Schock’s resignation in March amid accusations of fraud and improper enrichment.

A Northwestern University alumnus and his wife donated $92 million to the school to fund a new biomedical research center.

Jeff Monis and Ivan Sablan turned out to be the perfect match. Monis is a San Diego Police dispatcher, Sablan is a San Diego Police officer, and both have an O-Positive blood type. So when Monis found out he needed a new kidney, Sablan stepped up. The unlikely duo came together again Saturday to help encourage others to donate organs....