Sallie Mae topped the list with $30.9 million in contributions, including the creation of a $26 million fund to expand enrollment in local charter schools....

Bob Hunter, a columnist for the Vancouver Sun in the 1960s and most recently an ecology broadcaster for Canadian media, first came to prominence in 1971 with the launch of Greenpeace and the organization's protests against nuclear testing....

The grant from the Boca Raton-based Dodson Family Foundation will endow a fund at FAU's Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing to address the state's shortage of nurses....

The gift will support an endowment for the university's political science department and enhance its football program....

The gift from alumna Helen Zell will support graduate fellowships, a visiting writers series, and a new director's position....

Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine's Center for Vaccine Development will monitor the impact of a vaccine known to reduce the incidence of bacterial infections in children....

If implemented, the legislation would require that most board members on a charity's audit committee be independent and that all charities pay their executives "reasonable" compensation....

According to a new report from the Commonwealth Fund, young adults without coverage are far more likely to have medical bill problems or forgo needed care due to cost than their peers with insurance....

The foundation's board voted to cut the organization's budget for the year by about $20 million and to reduce its staff from eighty-seven to seventy-five employees....

The grants are part of the foundation's larger strategy to improve the performance of students in urban school systems by enhancing the quality of the instruction they receive....

The foundation's new spending rule of 6 percent, up from 5 percent, will determine the amount of money that is available for its discretionary grants, the funds that nonprofit organizations in Greater Boston may apply for....

Overweight children and adolescents have about a 70 percent chance of becoming overweight adults, increasing their risk for heart disease....

The gift from J. Paul Breitbach and his wife, Frances, provides $500,000 a year for the remainder of their lives, and $10 million, to be distributed from a charitable remainder trust, upon their deaths....

Colorado currently has an 11 percent shortage of nurses — twice the national average — and could face a 31 percent shortage by 2020....

The grant to Eastern Virginia Medical School's CONRAD program will support a multi-country clinical trial of a gel to prevent the transmission of HIV/AIDS....

The gift from Ira and Mary Lou Fulton will establish a $5 million chair in each of three BYU colleges: Family, Home, and Social Sciences; Health and Human Performance; and Humanities....

Established in 1993 to honor and sustain the legacy of the late Sen. John Heinz, the awards recognize exceptional leadership and accomplishments in areas of particular interest to Sen. Heinz....

The Louise T. Blouin Foundation will study the economic importance of the arts, and will endow a chair at a leading university to research the connections between the study of art and the study of perception and cognition....

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

Team SAFE-T is the first comprehensive school-based educational program in the country that addresses potential emergencies and seeks to create an effective template program that can be used nationwide....

After two years of declining donations, local nonprofits are stabilizing revenues, service, and staffing levels, while maintaining strong volunteer support, the United Way of the Bay Area's third annual Nonprofit Pulse Survey finds....

According to a new report from the California Endowment, 18 percent of California's Medi-Cal-eligible children were de-enrolled at least once in the course of a three-year period, subsequently regaining coverage in a short period of time....

The grant will fund the William T. Evjue Centennial Chair....

The leading international award for Web sites and their creators has chosen five nominees in each of more than sixty categories, including arts, associations, charitable organizations, education, and health....

The grant will support up to eight new tenure-track professors to be shared among five campuses: Smith College, Mount Holyoke, Amherst College, Hampshire College, and the University of Massachusetts....