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As Shenandoah University’s chief fundraisers try to grow their donor pool this year, they are targeting a not-so-wealthy population for the first time: students who are about to graduate. It’s not an easy pitch. The private university in Winchester, Va., charges more than $35,000 a year for tuition and other expenses, and more than 85 percent of a [...]
Harvard University will team with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to offer online courses from their faculties to students around the world that will include quizzes and certificates upon completion. The nonprofit venture, called EdX, will be funded with $30 million from each of the universities and will begin offering courses this year, the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based schools said [...]
The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation has announced eighteen grants totaling more than $1.55 million through its Fisheries Innovation Fund. Representing the second round of grants through the fund, the awards will support the development of sustainable fisheries nationwide, aiding the design and implementation of projects that provide technical and practical support for working fishing communities. Support provided [...]
The J. Paul Getty Trust announced Monday that it was cutting 34 jobs in its museum division, with the expected annual savings of $4.3 million to be redirected to art acquisitions. There will be no reductions in the exhibition schedule or public programs, the Getty said, and no cuts to curatorial and art-conservation staffs. “Everything the museum [...]
NPR’s Car Talk and PBS’s Masterpiece Theater could soon become big fundraising boosters for the nation’s charities. The Federal Communications Commission is inviting comments on a proposal to allow public radio and television stations to raise money for any nonprofit. Now stations are solely allowed to raise money for their own programs and operations, in part because [...]
The Simons Foundation, which specializes in science and math research, has chosen the University of California, Berkeley, as host for an ambitious new center for computer science, the university plans to announce on Tuesday. The foundation’s $60 million grant to establish the center, to be called the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at U.C. [...]
American Red Cross is launching a next-generation volunteer management system that will help better recruit, manage and deploy volunteers, thanks to the support of a $3 million grant from facilities maintenance supplier, W.W. Grainger, Inc. The online system, called Volunteer Connection, will allow new volunteers to match their skills and areas of interest to needs [...]
The Ford Foundation has announced $4.5 million in special grants along with a program of activities to commemorate its 50th anniversary in Latin America. The foundation has three offices in Latin America, which provide support for efforts in Brazil, the Andean Region and the southern cone, and Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean. In recent years, Ford has placed [...]
A foundation that pledged $100 million to help Purdue University commercialize its research has backed out of the deal. The Alfred E. Mann Foundation for Biomedical Engineering ended its collaboration with the university five years after it began, the university announced Thursday. Details are scant as to what led to the breakdown of the agreement, which was [...]
An online fundraising challenge to spur giving among minorities ended Thursday night after raising $2.2-million in just 10 days. The money will be shared by Associated Black Charities, Hispanics in Philanthropy, and 20 other charities that serve minorities. The W.K. Kellogg Foundation kicked off the Cultures of Giving Donor Challenge on April 17. It offered [...]
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