As federal benefits for food stamps expire on Saturday, Nov. 1, local communities, businesses and food banks are stepping up ...

In November of 2015, Jonathan Kumar stood on a street corner in Seattle and watched wincingly as a man begged for twenty minutes and not a single car opened a window for him. “He stood there painfully ...

If you're anything like me, you'd really like to start giving to charity regularly, but can't quite get your act together to donate each month. While a recurring direct debit donation solves that one ...

Paris based startup Tinbox, which was founded in January last year by a couple of friends at Warwick University in the U.K., is aiming to make a business out of letting people donate freely to ...

Marcellus has lived on the streets of Philadelphia for more than four years, and he wants you to know that being homeless isn't easy. "It's, like, waking up hungry. Going to sleep hungry," he says in ...

A 13-year-old developer created an app that lets you watch ads in exchange for donating money to the cause of your choice. Managing Editor Alison DeNisco Rayome joined CNET in 2019, and is a member of ...

A new donation platform helps people turn a moment of rage into charitable giving, simply by replying to an infuriating tweet. Trigger, an amazingly passive-aggressive Twitter-based app, lets you ...

A few hours before his mother underwent surgery on Thursday, Wahab Siddiqui was busy on his phone, calling people to ask for a unit of AB+ blood. He found one relative with the same blood group who ...

It happens every two seconds: a person needs donated blood or platelets to survive a surgery, cancer treatment, a traumatic injury. But blood stocks aren’t always high enough, especially during the ...