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The Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Chevy Chase, Maryland, has announced grants totaling more than $50 million to small colleges and universities working to improve undergraduate science education in the United States. A total of forty-three four-year grants ranging from $800,000 to $1.5 million were awarded to institutions of higher education working to create more engaging science [...]
A simple fundraising idea has given millions of people a place to sleep and a hot meal. The Salvation Army’s Bed & Bread Club has raised more than $100-million nationwide in the last 25 years by persuading people to give monthly. The charity asks donors to give at least $10 a month, or $120 for the year. [...]
UC Davis psychology professor Robert Emmons practices what he researches, expressing thanks for a $5.6 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation to advance the science of gratitude. “Thanks to the generosity of the John Templeton Foundation, we will be able to rapidly grow the science of gratitude and expand the scientific database of this [...]
To celebrate 30 years of Newman’s Own, the Newman’s Own Foundation will announce on Wednesday a commitment to give away at least $30 million to various charities this year. The foundation, which is based in Westport, Conn., and owns the famous food company, has awarded $350 million in grants during its existence and 2012 will [...]
Davidson College has received $25 million from an alumnus to fund scholarships, the school announced Sunday at its commencement ceremony. The donation is the second-largest in the school’s history, Davidson officials said. Ted Baker, a businessman, military veteran and member of the Davidson Class of 1957, made the donation to fund the Baker-Vagt Scholarship, which [...]
The University of Illinois at Chicago has announced a three-year, $950,000 grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to conduct a study of city government responses to the Great Recession. To be led by Michael Pagano, dean of the UIC College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs, in partnership with the National League of Cities Center for Research [...]
Thousands of nonprofit organizations in the United States misreport how they solicit billions of dollars in donations. Forty-one percent of all 37,987 charities and other nonprofit groups that collected at least $1 million according to their most recent report to the Internal Revenue Service made what experts agree is a ridiculous claim: They raised significant [...]
Saundra Baker was 25 when she met her husband to be, William Lane. He was 50. She was standing in line for last-minute “rush’’ tickets at Boston’s Metropolitan Theater, and ready to give up. “I was just starting to go when a gentleman came up and offered me a spare ticket,’’ said Mrs. Lane, 73, [...]
The Walmart Foundation has announced a $1 million grant to Goodwill to launch a program that will help military veterans find employment and ensure long-term financial stability for their families. Even as the nation’s unemployment rate remains stuck above 8 percent — and more than 20 percent for veterans between the ages of 18 and 24 — the military [...]
Pretty much every charity in Silicon Valley wants to “friend” Facebook and its workers as the company gets ready to go public on Friday. As Facebook’s executives and employees await a life-changing windfall from its initial public stock offering, expected to set the company’s worth at a record-breaking $100-billion, the company itself is coming under [...]
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