The grants include $1 million in support of a $200 million expansion of St. Joseph's Hospital....

According to Independent Sector, the total value of hours volunteered in 2004 was equivalent to approximately $272 billion of contributed service....

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

The grant, the largest in the journalism school's ninety-year history, will enable the center to launch a national institute for environmental journalists....

Through the endowment's Community Alliances to Promote Education initiative, community foundations are encouraged to prioritize their area's most compelling education needs and devise strategies to address them successfully....

The grant will enable Miami's Jackson Memorial Hospital to completely refurbish its Holtz Children's Hospital with new equipment and expanded services....

The fund is expected to generate $2.5 million to $5 million a year to support state economic and civic causes and people in need....

The gift will be used to recruit scientists who are studying female-specific cancers to an environment that is conducive to multi-disciplinary research and patient care....

Four thousand of the most important pieces in the Brooklyn Museum's collection of American and European costumes will be digitally photographed and, eventually, made available for viewing online....

Three South African universities will receive $2 million each to attract, train, retain, and promote a new generation of South African academics that includes more black and female scholars....

The grants support the work of ninety-eight organizations in Washington, Oregon, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho in the areas of community development and social change, learning opportunities for children and youth, and arts and culture....

The figure exceeds all previous records for the foundation's grants to nonprofits in Greater Boston and around the country....

According to a new report from Imagine Canada and the Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society Studies, Canada's nonprofit sector employs over 11 percent of the country's workforce, compared to just under 10 percent in the United States....

Through its Neighborhood Connections program, the foundation awarded $2.6 million to projects that focus on improving the quality of life in Cleveland neighborhoods....

According to a new Kellogg Foundation report, rural America will remain a key political battleground and prize for many years to come....

The forty-three scientists selected have interests that range from the molecular components of neural circuits, to infectious diseases and the agents that cause them, to the role of prehistoric bacteria in shaping the environment....

The new center, to be named the Fred W. and Mary B. Smith Center for the Performing Arts, is expected to cost up to $150 million....

About a dozen organizations have alleged that government agencies have used reviews, audits, and the threatened loss of federal funding to discourage them from activities that challenge administration policies....

Michael Bailin, who has led the foundation since 1996, will be succeeded by Nancy Roob, currently the foundation's vice president and COO....

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

Researchers at the Boston College Center on Wealth and Philanthropy estimate that the transfer of wealth from African-American households via estates over the next fifty years will range between $1.1 trillion and $3.4 trillion....

The grant from the Los Angeles-based Rose Hills Foundation will cover half the estimated $20 million cost of the renovation....

The grant will be shared equally by the Literacy Network/Urban League partnership's WORK NOW literacy program and the Alliance for a Better Community, which will develop a media campaign about the merits of staying in school....

The Pfizer International Health Initiative will support international exchanges of post-doctoral fellows and students between the university and a number of global partners, including governments and universities....

The twenty-two organizations receiving grants in this funding round are using innovative approaches to address social issues in communities around the world or helping to build the social sector's infrastructure....