Grants totaling $1.35 million were approved to conserve and protect lands that affect water quality in the Mississippi River basin....

In his annual Pennies for Charity report, New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer found that only 33.7 percent of the $187.4 million raised went to charities; the rest went to the cost of the campaigns and telemarketers themselves....

The St. Paul-based foundation has announced grants to fifty-six nonprofit organizations in Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota....

A. Norman Webb Jr., a star goalie at West Point in the early 1960s and a member of the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame, left the largest gift ever received by the organization....

According to chef Charlie Trotter, a leader of an ad hoc committee that stepped in to stabilize the organization after mismanagement was revealed, the board will step down on January 6 to make way for a new board....

The grant to University Hospitals of Cleveland will create an inpatient psychiatric unit for children and adolescents at Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital....

The six grants are part of the foundation's Nurturing Neighborhoods - Building Community initiative....

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

The study commissioned by the Colorado Association of Funders tracks giving by private foundations, community foundations, and corporate giving programs....

The grants reflect the foundation's commitment to the urban center of the Cleveland region...

The grant will help fund construction of 104-unit Encore Hall, an affordable housing development supporting the needs of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender older adults....

The anonymous gift from a graduate is the largest in the 125-year history of the school....

Donors who choose this route often do so out of a desire for privacy or due to modesty....

The grants will support three new classes of medical students in the Clinical Research Fellowship program at ten U.S. medical schools....

The grant from Herbert and Marion Sandler, CEOs of Golden West Financial Corporation, will be met if Human Rights Watch raises $30 million from new donors over five years....

The funding will support the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund, which provides grants to the children and spouses of U.S and U.K. armed service members who were killed in Operation Iraqi Freedom or Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan....

The 2002 sale of a valuable piece of real estate to Eli Broad, the billionaire philanthropist and professional associate of Getty chief executive Barry Munitz, for $700,000 less than its appraised value has raised legal and ethical questions....

Over the past four months, three orchestra trustees examined documents and interviewed administrators, musicians, and volunteers who worked on the $17 million purchase of thirty string instruments from publisher Herbert Axelrod....

The funds will support the emerging fields of metabolomics and cytomics, which use genetic information to expand understanding of metabolism and the inner workings of cells....

A number of grants focus on substance abuse services and advocacy, and education reform....

Among the grants are $3.5 million for the Fund for Our Economic Future, the philanthropic community's response to the economic challenges facing Northeast Ohio....

The school that the complex will house will be renamed the Gordon E. Inman College of Health Sciences & Nursing in honor of the donor, a local entrepreneur and business leader....

The grant recipients were selected for demonstrated artistic excellence, strong organizational capacity, long-term managerial and financial stability, and geographic and programmatic diversity....

The grants will support tobacco prevention and cessation policy initiatives, especially for people living in communities most affected by tobacco-related disease and exposure....

On almost all measures, Mott was rated above average relative to other foundations; nonetheless, grantees made suggestions for improvement in the efficiency of administrative aspects of its work....