Instead of deciding what's best for young people, three local foundations are taking a different approach by letting a group of girls give grants to nonprofits of their own choosing.....

The gift will enable the institute to launch a twelve-week pilot program that focuses on microelectronics, wireless communications, and micro-electromechanical systems....

Because many in the Hispanic community struggle financially, Hispanics tend to give and volunteer to give informally rather than donating to nonprofit organizations and broader causes....

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

Mitzi and Warren Eisenberg and Susan and Leonard Feinstein have pledged $7 million to name the new facility, the first art museum in the city's history to be built downtown....

The merger of the two organizations will create the largest advocacy group for the arts in America....

When Tennessean Dan Maddox set up his foundation in 1968, he hoped it would benefit his beloved state and give youngsters the leg up in life he never had....

The school will receive the matching gift from anonymous donors even though its endowment campaign is still $5 million short of its $30 million goal....

The grants were awarded through the San Francisco-based foundation's Amazon-Andes Initiative....

The gift, the largest in the hospital's history for a single program, will support heart treatment research and the recruitment of top cardiovascular surgeons....

The grants include $715,386 to the local chapter of the Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Association to support the hiring of two patient-service coordinators in order to serve more people in rural areas....

The five-year grant will enable the Institution's Archives of American Arts to offer free online access to more than 1.6 million photographs, sketchbooks, ledgers, diaries, and letters....

The grants, ranging from $2,500 to $25,000, will be used for Web-based applications that support activities such as e-fundraising, technology training programs, and high-speed Internet access....

Newly appointed chairman, Ralph Boyd Jr., is launching a top-to-bottom review of the organization and its philanthropy...

The two-part gift includes $10 million to build a five-hundred-seat proscenium theater and $25 million to support arts programs and scholarships....

Philanthropic experts say the response of corporate America to the tsunami disaster reflects the reality of an ever-shrinking world....

The gift, which will bolster the museum's endowment, is the largest cash donation ever to a U.S. museum....

According to a new report, just under half of New York City students graduate from high school in four years, and only about a third of those who do receive a Regents diploma showing they are prepared for college....

The Katharine Graham Fellowships will support four four-year teaching positions in the university's Society of Fellows....

The report from the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy analyzed nearly 3,200 grants made by thirty-seven foundations to seven hundred evangelical grantees....

The unrestricted gift is the largest private donation in the center's history....

St. Vincent Charity Hospital received a $12 million bequest that bumped its fundraising far above the 2003 total of $1.6 million, and University Hospitals Health System got $45 million in donations, more than double what it had raised in 2003....

Among her proudest accomplishments were plans for world-class waterfronts along the Schuylkill and Delaware rivers and the strengthening of Philadelphia's cultural institutions....

Though no longer actively seeking contributions to support relief efforts in tsunami-devastated South Asia, International Aid organizations like the American Red Cross and the U.S. Fund for UNICEF continue to receive donations....

Now in its fifteenth year, the Dallas-area ExxonMobil Community Summer Jobs Program enables selected agencies to hire a college student for an eight-week, paid internship....