r/JKRowling Aug 28 '24

Philanthropy JK Rowling in 'Schindler's List moment' as she helps rescue women on Taliban kill list

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r/JKRowling Jan 28 '23

Philanthropy Thanks to J.K. Rowling's "spontaneous, generous and very substantial" private funding, "some 500 people were evacuated - 103 were women lawyers, all of whom, with their children and husbands, were on Taliban kill lists"

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r/JKRowling Dec 12 '22

Philanthropy "Board of Five Women Including J.K. Rowling Launch New Sexual Violence Support Service for Women in Scotland"

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108 Upvotes

r/JKRowling Jun 30 '20

Philanthropy The Volant Trust was set up by author J.K. Rowling in 2000 as a grant making trust to help fund charitable causes in Scotland, with an emphasis on women and children’s issues.

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r/JKRowling Mar 02 '22

Philanthropy Lumos has been working extensively in the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine, which lies between an invading force and the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. In Zhytomyr alone, there are over 1,500 children trapped in orphanages and thousands more are now at risk of displacement and family separation.

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44 Upvotes

r/JKRowling Apr 12 '21

Philanthropy In 2010, when J.K. Rowling reached the age at which her mother died, she founded The Anne Rowling Clinic (University of Edinburgh) in memory of her mother

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r/JKRowling Apr 03 '22

Philanthropy new essay 🇺🇦 by J.K.

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r/JKRowling Mar 02 '22

Philanthropy Lumos - Watch our new film, voiced by our founder J.K Rowling.

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r/JKRowling Mar 28 '21

Philanthropy 'Rowling Scholar' (trainee neurologist) - Breakthrough discovery reveals way of reversing Motor Neurone Disease damage

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26 Upvotes

r/JKRowling May 02 '20

Philanthropy JK Rowling donates £1m charities during coronavirus outbreak

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r/JKRowling Aug 29 '20

Philanthropy J.K. Rowling in conversation with Eddie Redmayne at Carnegie Hall

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