The Nature Conservancy, the Conservation Fund, and the Open Space Conservancy will use the grants to buy land, purchase easements, and carry out conservation activities in four regions of the United States....

Leonard F. Pickell Jr has admitted to stealing tens of thousands of dollars from the culinary charity over the past decade, and faces a prison term of five to fifteen years when he is sentenced on March 23....

Announcing the ten-year, $750 million grant, Bill and Melinda Gates called on other donors to address the major funding gap for children's immunization programs in developing countries....

The Panel on the Nonprofit Sector, convened by Independent Sector at the encouragement of the Senate Finance Committee, has released a list of recommendations and issued a request for comments from the nonprofit community....

The UN Foundation will provide $1 in matching funds, up to $100,000, for every $2 contributed by CoF member family foundations to the UN Tsunami Disaster Relief Fund....

Although the relief effort has brought food and medicine to people along the hard-hit west coast of Indonesia's Aceh province, it continues to be hampered by insufficient coordination, says a draft report issued by agencies working in the region...

The grant will support four new research centers and six existing centers at Discovery Park, the university's interdisciplinary research, enterprise, and education complex....

International aid agencies have been overwhelmed with donations and requests for corporate tie-ins....

The partnership in five communities will work to better identify the reasons for poverty, attract investments and create collaborations, and address poverty at its roots....

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

The annual competition named four organizations in Chicago, Detroit, and Minneapolis to receive $50,000 grants to commission works by artists of color....

Ann Veneman, former United States Secretary of Agriculture, will succeed Carol Bellamy in May as executive director of the fifty-eight-year-old organization....

The Institute for Research and Reform in Education will use the grant to help school districts transform struggling high schools into places where all students can succeed....

The gift from a former student will endow four professorships, six teaching chairs, and three instructorships, and create a fund to support professional development opportunities for faculty and staff....

According to nutrition experts, families unable to afford nutritious food may develop unhealthful eating habits, setting the stage for obesity and numerous other health problems....

The Cleveland philanthropist, who has given the museum $77 million since 1993, cited differences with the style and vision of Thomas Krens, the museum's director, as reasons for his resignation....

The grant will fund the next phase of the university's Open Learning Initiative, which was in 2002 with Hewlett funding....

The gift will endow undergraduate and medical school scholarships and support faculty members in the business school....

Textile heiress Mignon C. Smith has given $10 million to establish a foundation to provide college scholarships to Alabama students with a record of service to family and community....

The thirteen grants will promote human rights, strengthen higher education, and advance young people's reproductive health and rights....

The awards, which honor scholars who have made significant contributions to the humanities and expanded opportunities for scholarship at their institutions, amount to as much as $1.5 million each per awardee....

The gift from Harvey and Phyllis Sandler will support one-third of the cost a planned cancer center....

The Great Rivers Partnership will create integrated models for sustaining great river systems of the world....

An East Coast memorial and a West Coast institute dedicated to the memory and work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. have each received gifts of $1 million or more....

The grant from the Evelyn & Walter Haas Jr. Fund will support Keeping Score, the symphony's multimedia effort to build new audiences for classical music....