The call raised questions about whether the groups could be perceived as compromising their reputation for neutrality, which has been central to their ability to work effectively in conflict zones....

The latest staff and board announcements from the philanthropic sector....

Robert J. Carrier bequeathed the Michigan organization $1.7 million and twenty acres worth $300,000, which will become a nature preserve....

The grant will support two faculty research projects a year, and will provide scholars the opportunity to meet with Microsoft representatives each spring to discuss their research interests....

Kimberly Camp, who joined the Barnes in 1998 and saw it through a difficult period of change, will leave by the end of the year to pursue other challenges....

Leonard F. Pickell Jr., president of the James Beard Foundation from 1995 to his departure last summer, has been sentenced to one to three years in prison for stealing thousands of dollars from the culinary organization....

Through its Broad Institute for School Boards, the foundation will train twenty-eight new school board members from ten urban school districts across the country in how to increase student achievement through improved governance....

The Windy City has been home to the nation's largest social-service not-for-profit for the past twenty-five years, but now finds itself vying with Dallas for that privilege....

The grants include $3.1 million for building and operating rural churches, and $4.3 million for nonprofit children's homes and other programs that support adoption....

The committee is suspected of trying to "reinterpret and expand international law," lobbying for arms-control issues that are outside its mandate, and "inaccurately and unfairly" accusing U.S. officials of not adhering to the Geneva Convention....

The grants for thirteen collaborative projects are part of the foundation's Outcomes and Assessment Initiative, which promotes institutional and faculty collaboration in order to strengthen teaching and learning....

Currently, over 85 percent of Kenyan nurses are certified below a qualified level and have not been trained in the management of new and re-emerging diseases that are compounding the poverty situation in Africa....

In a recent survey conducted by the Blandin Foundation, 89 percent of respondents indicated that local business development is the most urgent issue that needs to be addressed by rural communities....

The gift will be used to establish an endowed chair in the biological and physical sciences, a pre-engineering scholarship, and a College of Science and Mathematics scholarship....

A new tax law designed to prevent donors from artificially inflating the value of deductions for donated vehicles is already having a major impact on nonprofits....

In addition to cash awards, the winners will receive hundreds of hours of technical business planning consultation....

Barry Munitz has led the Getty through a period of change — and has been handsomely compensated for his efforts....

A House Appropriations subcommittee has voted to reduce the government's financial support for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and has proposed eliminating all federal funding for the nonprofit CPB within two years....

The annual report from the Giving USA Foundation found that charitable giving in the U.S., adjusted for inflation, rose for the first time since 2000....

The gift from the State Employees' Credit Union Foundation will support construction of Family House, which will provide affordable accommodations for transplant, cancer, burn, and other critical care patients and their families....

The advocacy group, made up of over six hundred grantmakers, will use the grant for a program to provide leadership, educational opportunities, and new resources to increase effective funding by and for women, youth, and communities of color....

The grant will support educational training sites at four universities to develop future public health leaders in the science of public health informatics....

The grant will support the San Francisco-based organization's three-year plan to enable some 80,000 African families to raise their standard of living by introducing small, inexpensive irrigation pumps and other revenue-generating equipment....

The gift to NorthEast Medical Center in Concord, North Carolina, will support the construction of a new $9.4 million children's hospital, including a twenty-four-bed pediatric unit and five beds in a pediatric intensive care unit....

The grant, which was awarded to the Albert B. Sabin Vaccine Institute, will support a study of the efficacy of a vaccine in endemic areas of Brazil, and to support the manufacturing and eventual industrial-scale production of the vaccine in Brazil....