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Category: Charity
The Society to Preserve the Millvale Murals of Croatian painter Maxo Vanka
 Maxo Vanka’s murals for Millvale’s Croatian Church of St. Nicholas are a unique contribution to the American mural movement of the 1930s and 1940s. The Society to Preserve the Millvale Murals of Maxo Vanka is a nonprofit public supported historic art preservation organization. Vanka’s work touches upon common themes of his era, including family, labor, and war, but with a focus upon the disenfranchised and the dispossessed.
Msgr. John E. Kozar Croatian American appointed president of the Catholic Near East Welfare Association
Msgr. John E. Kozar, former national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in the United States, has been appointed president of the Catholic Near East Welfare Association and the Pontifical Mission for Palestine. John E. Kozar: “Family. It is, perhaps, what comes to mindmost often during the Christmas Season. So at this time of year then, I think often of my visits with our mission family…” … “Family in need. Family offering loving service. And through it all, you are there – at Christmas and all through the year – supporting, in prayer and generous sacrifice, the Church in the Missions in its outreach to the poor. May the hope and peace of the Lord be with you in the coming year!”
Epidaurus Festival in Croatia for littlest residents of Dubrovnik region in Pridvorje 16 Sep 2011 at 8pm
The most precious things begin and end at home; all else is secondary. Ježurka Ježić, the popular character from Branko Ćopić’s “Ježeva kućica” (The Hedgehog’s Home), understood this. So shall we, and our children; I’m not afraid for the children – they will understand if they have a chance. A beautiful interpretation of this timeless text takes the form of a musical in the enchanted surroundings of Konavle’s Pridvorje on Friday, September 16th 2011 at 8pm. This lovely and important presentation is a gift from the Epidaurus Festival to the kindergarten in Konavle.
Concerts for Japan in Croatia 2011
Humanitarian concerts for Japan have been organized in Zagreb, Split, Dubrovnik, Osijek, Varaždin, Đakovo, Opatija, Virovitica, Rab.
Branka Kandic-Splavski and her Croatian fairy tales as medicine – Bajka kao lijek
Branka Kandić-Splavski is a specialist in family medicine and in her soul, a fairy tales writer. In 2004 after her first book ANDREA’S SHELL had been published her personal and professional life took a new direction: one of her patients was dying of brain cancer. She was no longer able to move, or speak, she was laying motionless and communicated only with her eyes. In the process of catching the public ear and eye, informing and educating the society about the patients’ rights and neccessity for dignified care in the lives of severely ill people the fairy tale idea once again served as a bridge.
Don Wolf Croatian photographer and benefactor in Kansas City USA
Don Wolf is a professional photographer living in Kansas City, USA. His family is from Gorski Kotar, a mounatinous part of Croatia. His greatest comfort was to help Croatian orphans via the vehicle of photography, showing their needs and presenting them to the good people of America.
Humanitarian concert for Japan in Zagreb 4 April 2011 20 pm
Duboko suosjećajući s narodom Japana i njihovom strašnom tragedijom, najavljujemo veliki humanitarni koncert Play & Pray for Japan koji će Zagrebačka filharmonija prirediti u ponedjeljak 4. travnja u Koncertnoj dvorani Vatroslav Lisinski u Zagrebu u 20 sati. S Japanom nas povezuje i veliki japanski maestro Kazushi Ôno na slici, koji je u najtežim godinama, u jeku Domovinskoga rata – bio šest godina dirigent Zagrebačke filharmonije, od 1990. do 1996.
Appeal for Matijas Derek
Matijas Derek (left)36, father of two children, has been stricken by ALS – “Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis” or Lou Gehrig’s desease. Matijas’, relatives and friends are hoping for increased research of the disease and have launched a petition the German Parliament with that goal.
Mime Cuvalo's FireFTP downloaded almost 18 million times by the end of 2010!
Mime Euvalo’s FireFPT was downloaded 17,845,269 times by the end of 2010! To see the trend, the number of downloads until September 2004 was 4.5 million. Just in the course of the last month and a half the number of downolads was more than half a million. Half of all proceeds go towards helping various orphanages in Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina and in Vukovar, Croatia.
CACF raises over $150,000 at 8th Annual Golf Outing/Awards Dinner
The Croatian American Charitable Foundation held its 8th Annual Charity Golf Outing and Awards Dinner at North Hills Country and Cherry Valley Club in Long Island, New York. Over 230 golfers and 60 companies help raise money to help the American Cancer Society, Doctors Without Borders, The Cam Neely Foundation and Croatian Mine Action Centre.
Branimir Kvartuc of StandUpCroatia.com to cross the Adriatic Sea for charity
Croatian American Branimir Kvartuč, an award-winning photojournalist, two times cancer survivor, StandUpCroatia.com founder and philanthropist, will be crossing the Adriatic Sea on June 25-27 of 2010, from Venice, Italy to Pula, Croatia on a Stand Up Paddle board, setting a world record, in the process. See some of his beuatiful photos from the Đakovo Embroidery folklore festival.
Davor Suker to Hold Mini-Clinic for Charity in NYC, May 15, 2010
Davor Suker (left) will be holding a “Mini Clinic for Charity” on Saturday, May 15th 2010 at the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) campus in Old Westbury, Long Island from 10am-1pm. The clinic will be for children between the ages of 9-14 and all proceeds will benefit the CACF and its ongoing battle for removing mines in Croatia.
Mime Cuvalo Croatian expert for Google/U-Tube and benefactor
Mime Euvalo is not only successful Croatian computer science expert in the USA, employed at prestigeous Google/U-Tube in California, but also an active member of the Franciscan community. In the course of last 3 years this young man donated nearly $35,000 for his Croatian homeland, mostly for the needs of children. On the photo Mime with a Bosnian child that he adopted.
FOR | FROM CROATIA WITH LOVE Croatian Jazz Gala at the Lincoln Center
The AIC Foundation is launching a concert series “For | From Croatia With Love” which promotes Croatian culture, art and heritage in the United States. Its first concert will be a Jazz Gala at the Lincoln Center featuring Jazz musicians from Croatia and the United States.
Lady Jadranka Njers Beresford Peirse promotor of Croatian culture in GB
Lady Jadranka Njerš Beresford Peirse of London is a fascinating personality and a great Croatian patriot, whose efforts have been engaged in raising funds both for the restoration of the damaged monuments that form such an important part of Croatian heritage and in finding ways to promote Croatian culture in Great Britain. She is recipient of the 1999 INA Award for international promotion of Croatian culture.
Ivana Marija Vidovic Croatian pianist touring Pennsylvania, NC, January 14-21, 2008
Ivana Marija Vidović is Croatian pianist and poet, born and living in Dubrovnik. We are happy to announce her USA tour in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, January 14-21, 2008. She is a young pianist with great natural instinct, a beautiful musicality, lovely desire to express herself artistically, with taste, poetry and extroversion. She is the founder and artistic director of the Epidaurus Festival, and involved in humanitarian work.
Martin Kotarski Croatian pupil winner of prestigious humanitarian award in Japan
We are proud to report in more detail about prestigious Japanese humanitarian award conferred by the Goi Peace Foundation to Martin Kotarski, a very young Croatian student. Martin is on the photo with Natalija Jurišić, his prof. The report has been prepared on the bases of material submitted upon our request by Martin himself, exclusively for the readers of the CROWN.
Croatian pupil Martin Kotarski and Bill Gates awarded in Japan
Martin Kotarski, 14 years old Croatian pupil, and Bill Gates (both on the photo), are recipients of a recognition from the Goi Peace Foundation in Japan. Martin received Children’s Category 1st Prize for his essay Joined by a Cookbook. He prepared a cookbook with traditional Croatian meals in order to get money for poor people of his school.
Ante Gabric the Saint of Sundarban in India
Fr. Ante Gabrić (Metković, Croatia 1915 – Bengal, 1988) lived like a Bengali, and he worked tirelessly for the spiritual development of the Bengali community in India. People in Bengal consider Fr. Gabrić should be beatified like mother Teresa and all the people are praying for for this. He was very much related to Blessed Mother Teresa of Kolkata and they worked hand in hand.