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If you haven't started your Christmas shopping yet, this weekend may be the time to do it. The annual Christmas Affair holiday market is underway in Downtown Austin.

The Brown Santa charity, run by the Travis County Sheriff’s Department, is counting on donations of toys and books as well as cash to help 1,500 families in need.

Cancer drug research is entering a new era which will mean more successful drugs for patients, says a charity.

There has been a dramatic rise in the number of babies being born prematurely in England, a charity has warned.

At the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, Larry Brilliant, executive director of Google.org, declares that Google ripped off Salesforce’s 1/1/1 model–and the company is proud of it.

The model calls for a company to give 1 percent of its time, 1 percent of its equity, and 1 percent of its product to charity.

Rainn Wilson, aka "Dwight Schrute" from "The Office" stops by Austin to talk charity, spirituality, and spatulas. (via That Austin Girl)

House repossession poses the greatest threat to people's mental health, a charity has warned.

The number of healthy babies lost as a result of Down's syndrome testing is "unjustifiable", a charity has claimed.

Failure to curb climate change is violating the human rights of people in the poorest nations, says a UK-based aid charity.

Festival goers could be seriously damaging their hearing, a leading charity has warned.