The gift will support the construction of a new four-story, 146,000-square-foot facility featuring sustainable "green" design elements....

The report is part of a thirty-month project to assist local communities in improving and expanding after-school programs while illustrating the leadership roles that mayors and city council members can play....

Included among the grants was $4.5 million awarded through the foundation's new Global Development program, which supports organizations working to alleviate poverty in the developing world....

The new positions will bolster the college's department of economics and business administration....

Since April, the foundation has gone through two chief executives and a licensing director and a third of the seats on its board are unfilled....

United Way research suggests that allowing people who don't itemize their federal tax returns to receive a deduction for making charitable contributions could result in hundreds of millions more in annual contributions to the organization....

Researchers anticipate the results will provide information vital to designing systems that detect potentially dangerous biological substances in the air....

The newly established award recognizes leaders of institutions of higher education who have demonstrated a commitment to liberal arts and have initiated and supported curricular innovations....

The shortages of two key drugs is attributed to an acceleration in orders from the Bush administration's Emergency Program for AIDS Relief and rising demand from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria....

The gift from the Harold Simmons Foundation will help establish the Annette Simmons Heart Hospital, part of a new multi-disciplinary Comprehensive Center for Heart Care....

Time magazine's annual series highlights men and women whose ingenuity, entrepreneurial spirit, and dedication to improving the lives of others have had a significant impact on their own communities and the world at large....

The increase was driven by a 9.7 percent boost in giving from individual donors, including a 21.5 percent surge in gifts from non-alumni individuals....

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

The grant will support the construction of a new children's and women's facility and allow the hospital to establish one of only thirteen level-one pediatric trauma centers in the United States....

The gift will help fund the design of a new interstate bridge spanning the Trinity River....

The Fund for Our Economic Future has announced an eighteen-month, $3 million initiative to bring together tens of thousands of people to discuss issues facing the region and create a public mandate for change....

Nonprofits have long lobbyied Congress to allow taxpayers who do not itemize to deduct a portion of their charitable donations, on the grounds that such a move would increase charitable contributions from individuals....

The grant from MetLife will fund the creation of parks in Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Miami, New York City, and San Francisco....

The community foundation received the grant after reaching $5 million in assets, a benchmark required by Knight....

One hundred and sixteen young scientists and economists will each receive $45,000 over a two-year period to pursue any line of research that interests them.....

Peter Benenson founded the human rights organization in 1961 as a one-year campaign for the release of six Portuguese prisoners of conscience....

According to the congressional Joint Committee on Taxation, the changes would end a variety of abuses and stem excessive deductions claimed in connection with easements....

In addition to cash awards, the winners will receive hundreds of hours of business planning consultations to assist their organizations in implementing their business ventures....

In an address before a conference of three hundred religious leaders, President Bush said that of the $20 billion in federal funds available for social programs in 2004, 10 percent went to faith-based charities....

When it re-opens in a new building in Golden Gate Park later this year, the de Young will be able to showcase part of a major collection of Oceanic art amassed over the last forty years by John and Marcia Friede....