Last week a college student from China lost nearly $1,000 in a fraudulent scam just hours after landing in Santa Barbara. This week, the student was offered an anonymous $900 donation, but is opting to direct the money to charity. Police released surveillance images last week of a man and woman believed to be responsible for the crime. The couple approached the 23-year-old student on August 11 ...

Kung fu star Jackie Chan is facing questions after the headmaster of a school rebuilt in the aftermath of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake said the school didn't receive a penny of the donations the actor had promised.

Associated Press NEW YORK — One of the investors in a proposed Islamic center near Ground Zero is a Long Island medical clinic owner whose expressions of sympathy for Palestinians included a donation to a charity later shut down for links to Hamas.

NBA star Hakeem Olajuwon, Microsoft Corp. and a medical equipment company owned by General Electric also donated to the charity, thinking their donations would fund humanitarian programs.

An unsuspecting victim who was conned out of $900 last month in Santa Barbara received an unexpected donation from local citizens - that he asked be donated to the American Red Cross.

And appointing notoriously known suspect characters, to lead and be the official heads of the charity donations…. who themselves helped greatly to create poverty and the so called “poorest people in the Western Go to fullsize image .... And if in fact, in reality fooled citizens send or donate their hard earned monetary funds to the well established, system's charities of mainstream society, then, don't expect for the financial help to ever arrive, not on time or at all. ...

Nevermind, for just a moment, the new 90% tax, or that one nice guy who is giving his bonus to charity; nevermind the outcry from those “aghast” politicians at the unfairness of the bonuses; nevermind the knife-in-the-back 11th hour clause that was ..... Bill says: “I am ALL ABOUT having the freedom to take a risk for a high reward.” But this is not the model the US has. You are talking of a risk model that is a century old with capitalists who risked +their own money+. ...