Rowling donates 10 million

Our favorite author is widely known for her extensive charity work, even going so far as to lose her Forbes billionaire status.

British author J.K. Rowling donated £10 million (nearly $16 million US dollars) to Edinburgh University to help them reach their fundraising goal of £350 million (US$555 million), says a University World News report dated Nov. 18. Rowling’s donations will fund a clinic for multiple sclerosis and neurodegenerative diseases. The best selling “Harry Potter” series author is no stranger to donating to charity.

Last March, J.K. Rowling dropped off the billionaire’s list, due in part to her donations to charity. According to Forbes, the billionaire novelist donated $160 billion to worthy causes. One of her favorite charities, it seems, is One Parent Families, an organization designed to empower single parent families by providing education, job search and childcare services.

As a former single parent living on welfare while unemployed, Rowling takes an active interest in helping others who find themselves in similar situations.

Rowling also founded her own nonprofit organization, Lumos, to “transform the lives of disadvantaged children by facilitating the end of institutional care for good”.

Rowling’s inspirational gifts just keep on giving.

 

Source: Examiner 

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