Tuesday, July 12, 2011

30 Charities Take Ads in Final 'News of the World' - Philanthropy Today - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas

30 Charities Take Ads in Final 'News of the World' - Philanthropy Today - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas: "Profits from sales of the last issue of what was Britain’s best-selling Sunday paper will be split equally among three organizations–the children’s charity Barnardo’s, the Forces Children’s Trust, and Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham Charity.

Many U.K. charities turned down the weekly’s offer of free ads, made after Rupert Murdoch’s News International abruptly decided to close the 168-year-old newspaper amid revelations that its reporters hacked the cellphones of celebrities, politicians, crime victims, and military families."

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