According to a survey by foundations in southern New England, 70 percent of the region's nonprofit CEOs and executive directors will leave their posts over the next five years....

Despite increased state and federal funding levels and special efforts to reduce waiting lists, the need for medications still exceeds the funds available in some states....

Working with the Senate Finance Committee, the alliance is studying measures to strengthen the process for voluntary, private land donations....

Starting in 2008, the foundation will sponsor three annual prizes worth $1 million each in the fields of astrophysics, neuroscience, and nanoscience....

Twenty finalists will present their business plans to a panel of judges at the partnership's final conference and awards ceremony in June....

The organization, Building Habitat, will raise funds for local chapters of Habitat for Humanity, and has already received a $1 million pledge from Aflac founder Paul Amos....

Housed in a building that once was the home of Kyrgyzstan's Communist Party, AUCA students study business administration, economics, Western legal and political systems, and journalism....

A poll of more than one thousand residents found that nearly 1.7 million Indiana adults, or thirty-six out of every one hundred, are regular volunteers....

Reduced revenues from fundraising are forcing the United Way of the National Capital Area to increase the amount it withholds from federal and corporate employee donations to cover overhead expenses....

USAID is reducing funding for sixty-seven projects representing 80 percent of all the international development work financed by the agency's Food for Peace office'.

Visceral leishmaniasis, also known as "black fever," is a fatal disease transmitted by sand flies, which spread leishmania parasites that attack internal organs....

The twenty-eight sculptures from the Ray Stark Revocable Trust include works by Giacometti, Lichtenstein, Calder, Mir?, Moore, and Noguchi, as well as by living artists such as Ellsworth Kelly and Joel Shapiro....

The grant will provide three years of operational support for the program, in which students from Cornell help address challenges confronting New York City's poorest children, families, and neighborhoods....

The decision by a handful of major nonprofits to establish headquarters in Little Rock is evidence that a healthy philanthropic sector is starting to take shape in the region....

The gift from businessman and philanthropist Jerry Frautschi will support the museum?s move to a new building that will triple its exhibition space....

The grant from the John Templeton Foundation will make possible the first comprehensive study to examine the relationship between religious attitudes and health....

The museum's 22,000-square-foot core exhibition covers 3.5 million years of African and African-American history, moving from ancient Africa to contemporary America....

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

The gift to Saddleback Memorial Medical Center, the largest ever received by an Orange County hospital, will support the creation of more operating rooms, expanded laboratory and pharmacy facilities, and increased parking....

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has announced the 186 U.S. and Canadian winners of its eighty-first annual fellowship program, with accompanying awards totaling $7.1 million....

With 99.9 percent of its assets in Eli Lilly stock, the value of the endowment's assets rise and fall with the pharmaceutical giant's trading on the New York Stock Exchange....

The gift, the largest ever cash contribution to the New York City museum, will bolster its educational programs and help finance future exhibitions....

Through a partnership with the giant retailer, NFWF plans to acquire 138,000 acres over the next ten years — or at least one acre of priority wildlife habitat for every acre occupied by a Wal-Mart store, parking lot, or supply center....

Republican-backed legislation to permanently repeal the estate tax has successfully passed a vote in the House of Representatives....

Maurice Greenberg, the recently ousted chairman and CEO of American International Group, has resigned as a director of the Asia Society and the American Museum of Natural History....