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Thursday, 24 February 2011
Thursday, 15 July 2010
Paul Allen commits majority of his wealth to philanthropy
Billionaire Paul Allen has taken his friend Bill Gates up on his challenge to publicly pledge the majority of his wealth to philanthropy.
Paul G. Allen, who is 57, said today that he plans to leave the majority of his $13 billion estate to philanthropy to continue the work of his foundation and to fund scientific research. It was also a way of marking the 20th anniversary of the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, which he started in 1990 with his sister, Jo Lynn Allen, and has since given 3,000 grants totaling about $400 million.
A month ago, Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett began a public campaign to encourage other billionaires to make a "Giving Pledge," and donate at least half of their wealth to charity.
Allen said he has planned to do that for many years, but he had not gone public with his intentions until now.
"He and Bill have talked about this and he thinks it's a good idea to let people know," said David Postman, a spokesman for Allen at Vulcan. "He hopes that maybe it spurs other people to give and he's hoping there will be good things that come of it."
Allen said he wanted to make it clear that his philanthropic efforts "will continue after my lifetime," he said in a statement. "As our philanthropy continues in the years ahead, we will look for new opportunities to make a difference in the lives of future generations."
This year Forbes ranked Allen as the world's 37th richest person with a fortune estimated at $13.5 billion.
His total giving over the years has reached about $1 billion, reflecting eclectic interests in science, the arts and education, including nonprofits he founded: the Allen Institute for Brain Science and the Experience Music Project.
While Gates' charity has become global in size and ambition, Allen's has remained mostly local and personal.
"Since the beginning, our philanthropy has been focused in the Pacific Northwest, where I live and work," Allen said. "I'm proud to have helped fund great work done by non-profit groups throughout the region. But there's always more to do."
Allen has battled non-Hodgkin's lymphoma since his diagnosis last fall. He has finished chemotherapy treatments and has been been doing well, Postman said. Allen traveled to Africa recently, and has been "running businesses as much as he ever has. He stays intimately involved in the things he cares about."
Microsoft founders and future billionaires Bill Gates, left, and Paul Allen in Bellevue in 1981, when the company employed less than 100 people.
The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation also announced $3.9 million in funding to 41 nonprofit organizations in the Pacific Northwest, focused largely on arts and culture.
The foundation gave Anniversary grants of $20,000 each to five individual founders of nonprofits, recognized as "change agents who created organizations that continue to deliver high impact programs for local communities."
The recipients are Rachel Bristol, founder and CEO of Oregon Food Bank; Bridget Cooke, founder and executive director of Adelante Mujeres in Forest Grove, Ore.; Jeanne Harmon, founder and executive director of the Center for Strengthening the Teaching Profession in Tacoma; Myra Platt and Jane Jones, founders of Book-It Repertory Theatre in Seattle; and Ken Stuart, founder and president of Seattle Biomedical Research Institute.
SOURCE: TED S. WARREN/ASSOCIATED PRESS/SEATTLE TIMES
Paul G. Allen, who is 57, said today that he plans to leave the majority of his $13 billion estate to philanthropy to continue the work of his foundation and to fund scientific research. It was also a way of marking the 20th anniversary of the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, which he started in 1990 with his sister, Jo Lynn Allen, and has since given 3,000 grants totaling about $400 million.
A month ago, Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett began a public campaign to encourage other billionaires to make a "Giving Pledge," and donate at least half of their wealth to charity.
Allen said he has planned to do that for many years, but he had not gone public with his intentions until now.
"He and Bill have talked about this and he thinks it's a good idea to let people know," said David Postman, a spokesman for Allen at Vulcan. "He hopes that maybe it spurs other people to give and he's hoping there will be good things that come of it."
Allen said he wanted to make it clear that his philanthropic efforts "will continue after my lifetime," he said in a statement. "As our philanthropy continues in the years ahead, we will look for new opportunities to make a difference in the lives of future generations."
This year Forbes ranked Allen as the world's 37th richest person with a fortune estimated at $13.5 billion.
His total giving over the years has reached about $1 billion, reflecting eclectic interests in science, the arts and education, including nonprofits he founded: the Allen Institute for Brain Science and the Experience Music Project.
While Gates' charity has become global in size and ambition, Allen's has remained mostly local and personal.
"Since the beginning, our philanthropy has been focused in the Pacific Northwest, where I live and work," Allen said. "I'm proud to have helped fund great work done by non-profit groups throughout the region. But there's always more to do."
Allen has battled non-Hodgkin's lymphoma since his diagnosis last fall. He has finished chemotherapy treatments and has been been doing well, Postman said. Allen traveled to Africa recently, and has been "running businesses as much as he ever has. He stays intimately involved in the things he cares about."
Microsoft founders and future billionaires Bill Gates, left, and Paul Allen in Bellevue in 1981, when the company employed less than 100 people.
The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation also announced $3.9 million in funding to 41 nonprofit organizations in the Pacific Northwest, focused largely on arts and culture.
The foundation gave Anniversary grants of $20,000 each to five individual founders of nonprofits, recognized as "change agents who created organizations that continue to deliver high impact programs for local communities."
The recipients are Rachel Bristol, founder and CEO of Oregon Food Bank; Bridget Cooke, founder and executive director of Adelante Mujeres in Forest Grove, Ore.; Jeanne Harmon, founder and executive director of the Center for Strengthening the Teaching Profession in Tacoma; Myra Platt and Jane Jones, founders of Book-It Repertory Theatre in Seattle; and Ken Stuart, founder and president of Seattle Biomedical Research Institute.
SOURCE: TED S. WARREN/ASSOCIATED PRESS/SEATTLE TIMES
Tuesday, 24 November 2009
YAZZ-tastic - 80's pop princess finds God!
Singer Yasmin Evans finds peace through her faith."The only way is up!" promised the bleach blonde model turned singer in the summer of 1988, which she soundtracked with her international smash, becoming one of the UK's biggest music stars. But what happened to Yazz? We caught up with her and found out the music industry can go down as well as up.
That was then...
Born to a Jamaican father and English mother in London in 1960, Yasmin Evans was an unmistakable regular on the catwalk before being blinded by the giddy lights of pop fame. She scored a number of underground hits with Biz during the mid-‘80s. But her big break really arrived in 1988, when she supplied the vocals to Coldcut's pioneering, monster club smash ‘Doctorin' The House' (Watch the video on YouTube), hitting the UK top 10.
Later that summer, she launched a solo career under the name Yazz and the Plastic Population, releasing debut single ‘The Only Way Is Up' (Watch the 'Top Of The Pops' performance on YouTube). It went on to spend five weeks at the top of the UK chart and became the biggest hit of the year. Follow-up ‘Stand Up For Your Love Rights' went to number two, while ‘Wanted', the accompanying debut album, narrowly failed to hit the chart summit.
In 1989, Yazz made the top for the last time with ‘Fine Time' and had a minor hit in 1990 with ‘Treat Me Good', before hooking up with Aswad on ‘How Long' three years later. Her second album, ‘One On One', came out the following year to limited success, by which point Yazz had grown disillusioned with the music business. "My creative resources were drying up from the treadmill of promoting. So I began looking to other directions for fulfilment," she tells Yahoo! Music.
This is now...
Now 49, Yazz takes up the story from her new home in southern Spain. "I decided to come out of the business and try to get my head sorted. I was pretty messed up. I began a search for faith, winding through all the roads from Buddhism to New Age. It was a long sojourn but I thank God for it as truth must be found...about two years later I found it! And I became a committed Christian and life has been awesome since!"
And what has she been doing in recent years? "I travel to invited events, missions, prisons to present a story called 'Fame 2 Freedom'. Through singing songs from my latest album (Listen to 'Running Back To You' on Yazz's official website) and using interactive visuals and a band or acoustic set up, I present one woman's journey to find faith. They are fantastic evenings, intimate, fun and challenging!"
Yazz has also recorded a contemporary gospel album and teaches at professional singing workshop classes. She is currently preparing more new material alongside "a little book of women's stories that I have met along my travels. Unsung heroes I call them! Outstanding articles about women of faith and how their faith has carried them through intense storms," she explained. With so many projects on the go, a full comeback to the pop frontline seems unlikely, as she admitted: "Mmmmmm, let me think...I don't have time!!!"
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That was then...
Born to a Jamaican father and English mother in London in 1960, Yasmin Evans was an unmistakable regular on the catwalk before being blinded by the giddy lights of pop fame. She scored a number of underground hits with Biz during the mid-‘80s. But her big break really arrived in 1988, when she supplied the vocals to Coldcut's pioneering, monster club smash ‘Doctorin' The House' (Watch the video on YouTube), hitting the UK top 10.
Later that summer, she launched a solo career under the name Yazz and the Plastic Population, releasing debut single ‘The Only Way Is Up' (Watch the 'Top Of The Pops' performance on YouTube). It went on to spend five weeks at the top of the UK chart and became the biggest hit of the year. Follow-up ‘Stand Up For Your Love Rights' went to number two, while ‘Wanted', the accompanying debut album, narrowly failed to hit the chart summit.
In 1989, Yazz made the top for the last time with ‘Fine Time' and had a minor hit in 1990 with ‘Treat Me Good', before hooking up with Aswad on ‘How Long' three years later. Her second album, ‘One On One', came out the following year to limited success, by which point Yazz had grown disillusioned with the music business. "My creative resources were drying up from the treadmill of promoting. So I began looking to other directions for fulfilment," she tells Yahoo! Music.
This is now...
Now 49, Yazz takes up the story from her new home in southern Spain. "I decided to come out of the business and try to get my head sorted. I was pretty messed up. I began a search for faith, winding through all the roads from Buddhism to New Age. It was a long sojourn but I thank God for it as truth must be found...about two years later I found it! And I became a committed Christian and life has been awesome since!"
And what has she been doing in recent years? "I travel to invited events, missions, prisons to present a story called 'Fame 2 Freedom'. Through singing songs from my latest album (Listen to 'Running Back To You' on Yazz's official website) and using interactive visuals and a band or acoustic set up, I present one woman's journey to find faith. They are fantastic evenings, intimate, fun and challenging!"
Yazz has also recorded a contemporary gospel album and teaches at professional singing workshop classes. She is currently preparing more new material alongside "a little book of women's stories that I have met along my travels. Unsung heroes I call them! Outstanding articles about women of faith and how their faith has carried them through intense storms," she explained. With so many projects on the go, a full comeback to the pop frontline seems unlikely, as she admitted: "Mmmmmm, let me think...I don't have time!!!"
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Friday, 6 February 2009
Narconon Hastings pays tribute to work of local magazine publisher and his team
A Community News report by Alison Withey
Narconon UK - Tel. 01424 420 036
We at Narconon Hastings are not only dedicated to saving lives through the Narconon Rehabilitation program but we also work and co-operate with and support other groups and people who help and inspire others to do better in life.
Fortunately there are many people of goodwill in this world and they do not always get the recognition or the acknowledgements deserved for what they do.
We would like to introduce you to someone that we recognize for the positive impact he is creating on the community. He is the editor of well known magazines ‘In Chelsea’ and ‘Your Town Your Choice’ which specializes in good news. He is also a good friend of Narconon Hastings and here is what he has to say:
Narconon UK - Tel. 01424 420 036
We at Narconon Hastings are not only dedicated to saving lives through the Narconon Rehabilitation program but we also work and co-operate with and support other groups and people who help and inspire others to do better in life.
Fortunately there are many people of goodwill in this world and they do not always get the recognition or the acknowledgements deserved for what they do.
We would like to introduce you to someone that we recognize for the positive impact he is creating on the community. He is the editor of well known magazines ‘In Chelsea’ and ‘Your Town Your Choice’ which specializes in good news. He is also a good friend of Narconon Hastings and here is what he has to say:
(Duncan Williams and friend )
"As a magazine publisher I believe strongly in supporting positive community values that are in the best interest all. Clearly problem drinking or drug abuse is a menace to our society; to the employer, employee, to families, their health, wealth, hope and happiness. For this reason myself and all my local news correspondents are keen to endorse all worthwhile efforts to combat addiction. If the skills to provide rehabilitation and education for those attempting to recover are genuine, they deserve to be highlighted. These valuable tools can then be wisely and widely applied to handle addiction and its associated problems."
Duncan Williams
This is an excerpt from ‘The Way To Happiness’ written by L.Ron Hubbard, author and humanitarian.
DO NOT HARM A PERSON OF GOODWILL.
“Despite the insistence of evil men that all men are evil, there are many good men around and women too. You may have been fortunate enough to know some.
Factually, the society runs on men and women of goodwill. Public workers, opinion leaders, those in the private sector who do their jobs are, in the great majority, people of goodwill. If they weren’t, they long since would have ceased to serve.”
- L.Ron Hubbard -
(c) 2009 Narconon United Kingdom . All Rights Reserved. NARCONON is a registered trademark owned by the Association for Better Living and Education International and used with its permission. Grateful acknowledgement is made to L.Ron Hubbard Library for permission to reproduce selections from the copyrighted works of L.Ron Hubbard.
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