Philanthropy

Feeding America, the nation's leading domestic hunger-relief charity, and Abbott, the global healthcare company, today announced that more than $400,000 in adult and pediatric nutritionals originally intended for hurricane relief are now available to feed families at 20 food...

More and more foundations are turning to mission investing as a tool to help achieve greater impact beyond traditional grant making. But many foundations still don't have a good sense of the scope of the mission investing universe, nor do they have access to mission investme...

19 youth representatives as part of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts delegation to the UN climate change conference have received a major boost from The UPS Foundation, who join WAGGGS as a founding partner of the Global Girls Fund.

The National Hispanic Entrepreneurs' Organization (www.nheo.org) officially announced today the launch of their inspiring National Public Awareness Campaign for 2010. NHEO was founded by Kenan-Flagler MBA and social entrepren...

Comfort Inn by Choice Hotels International, Inc. is the title sponsor of Rebuilding Together's 15th annual Kickoff to Rebuild, an NFL Super Bowl sanctioned event. Comfort Inn with "The Steve Harvey Morning Show" is giving three winners the opportunity to each win a trip for ...

The holidays are here, and AT&T* has military families top of mind. With the help of the USO, AT&T is donating more than 230,000 prepaid phone cards - with a total retail value of more than $1 million - to military personnel stationed overseas in 2009.

West Virginia's Claymont Court Mansion has been selected to receive $150,000 from the federal Save America’s Treasures (SAT) grant program, thanks to an appropriations request by Congresswoman Shelley Moore Capito. The West Virginia representative acted on behalf of a reques...

The REI Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization supported by outdoor gear and apparel retailer REI, has established the Mary Anderson Legacy Grant in celebration of the company co-founder's 100th birthday. The annual g...

At its annual meeting on November 6, 2009, the Board of Directors of the Mitsubishi Corporation Foundation for the Americas (MCFA) approved $1,000,000 in support of environmental causes, including 5 new and 7 continuing grants, and a first-time $300,000 program-related-inve...

Kindness is contagious this holiday season. Based on the belief that it doesn’t take a great deal of money or time to spread happiness, today Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) announced the launch of a year-end giving campaign called 'You In?'™ designed to inspire a ripple of kindn...