In addition to supporting existing services and creating new statewide programs, the Washington Families Fund will provide ten years of financing for support services tied to affordable housing....

Mayor John Street is considering a number of funding mechanisms but is said to be favoring a surcharge on sports and entertainment events....

Cuts in state funding have caused many universities to step up their fundraising efforts in order to cover basic operating costs....

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded study argues that smoking would be greatly reduced if state spending on tobacco control followed levels recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention....

Many NGOs cite the presence of too many smaller groups and lack of coordination as key problems in ongoing relief efforts....

The move was demanded by members of the restaurant awards committee, who refused to participate otherwise. As a result, no foundation trustee or staff member will be allowed to participate in the awards process....

As the UN's special envoy, Clinton would also work to resolve rebel conflicts in Indonesia and Sri Lanka, two of the hardest-hit countries....

The gift from Roger and Victoria Sant will also establish an endowed chair for ocean research at the museum as well as a new marine science exhibition....

The twenty-four grants support international programs promoting the research and development of new medicines and advocating for international change and support....

The program awarded over $197 million to public charities nationwide, more than twice as much as in 2003, while donor contributions nearly doubled, to $438 million from $221 million....

An Urban Institute study based on interviews with sixty-one foundation CEOs and board chairs found little consensus on how to assess effectiveness....

Rejecting a January 14 summons, the civil rights organization contends the audit, which was launched before the November presidential election, was politically motivated....

Alberto Ibargüen, publisher and chairman of the Miami Herald, will succeed Hodding Carter III....

Eighty-eight grants totaling almsot $1.2 million were awarded through the Prince Charitable Trusts and the Driehaus Foundation....

A $1 million grant will support a new gallery at the Gettysburg National Battlefield Museum....

The grants to the World Health Organization and UNICEF will support a strategy to end poliovirus transmission worldwide by the end of 2005....

Among its findings, the survey found that nearly two-thirds of area nonprofits gave raises or added a staff member in 2004....

The funds will support the conversion of more than twenty miles of old railroad tracks and other land into a recreation and transit loop connecting forty-six diverse neighborhoods, schools, shopping districts, and public parks....

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

Nearly 1,000 entries have been received by the competition set up to select the design for the memorial commemorating the lives lost when United Flight 93 crashed on the morning of September 11, 2001....

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation has committed $1.5 million in grants to the relief effort, while the Skoll Foundation has announced $300,000 in grants to defray additional costs incurred by grantees involved in the effort....

The $1.2 billion pledged to the International Red Cross is sufficient to meet the costs of the organization's tsunami relief efforts, and the American Red Cross will stop fundraising to support those efforts....

In reaching an agreement, the foundation has made it clear that it supports the principle of academic freedom....

A letter from the Internal Revenue Service to Charity Lobbying in the Public Interest dispels misperceptions that foundation funding of nonprofits that lobby is illegal or inappropriate....

Most of the nearly two hundred grants ranged from $5,000 to $10,000 and were made to Orange County nonprofit organizations; however, the largest, $1 million, went to UNICEF for tsunami relief....