Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot succeeds John E. Corbally, who served as chair of the foundation's board from 1995 to 2002, and also served as the first president of the foundation....

Carl J. Schramm succeeds Lou Smith, the foundation's current president and CEO, who announced more than a year ago that he planned to retire in 2002....

The Nature Conservancy has signed an agreement to purchase the Baca Ranch, encompassing approximately 97,000 acres on the border of the Great Sand Dunes National Monument and Preserve in Colorado's San Luis Valley, for $31.28 million....

Michael P. Hammond, who became chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts on January 22, has died after just one week on the job. Selected by President Bush in late September to lead the agency, Hammond was confirmed by the Senate in December....

The final plan calls for $240 million in additional financial assistance, $80 million for long-term services to those affected, and $25 million in immediate disaster relief....

The Fund plans to disburse up to $700 million in 2002 for plans developed thorugh country partnerships in severely affected countries....

Actor Kirk Douglas and his wife Anne have announced a gift of $2.5 million to the Center Theatre Group to help build a new theater complex in downtown Culver City, California, that will focus on experimental and educational theater programs....

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation is expected to become one of the largest philanthropies in the United States over the next three years after it receives $3 billion from the estate of William Hewlett, the late co-founder of Hewlett-Packard Co....

Kids-TALK allows children of Wayne County who have reported sexual abuse, to be interviewed by a trained forensic interviewer only once....

The September 11th Fund has awarded twenty-four new grants totaling $5.6 million to organizations providing long-term services such as mental health counseling and health care to people who were affected by the terrorist attacks of September 11....

The new CASEs will become hubs for academic scholars who will both teach and undertake research through the auspices of the center....

The ExxonMobil Foundation has pledged $1 million to support a new program in epidemiology and public health at the UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas that will mainly focus on a pediatric asthma research effort....

The Conservation Fund has received nearly $4 million from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation in Flint, Michigan, to protect the significant coastal and freshwater ecosystems within the U.S. portion of the Great Lakes Basin....

The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts has announced $600,000 in grants to New York City arts groups located below 14th Street that have been severely affected by the terrorist attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan....

The Rochester Area Community Foundation in Rochester, New York, has announced that it received donations totaling more than $18 million in December, including an anonymous gift of $14 million....

The United Way of the National Capital Area in Washington, D.C. has hired an independent auditor to examine its operations in response to a former board member's memo that warns of possible mismanagement and misuse of funds at the agency....

To help small-scale coffee growers in Latin America, consumer products maker Procter & Gamble Co. is contributing $1.5 million to TechnoServe, a nonprofit that works with rural families in developing nations to create sustainable businesses....

A significant portion of the American public believes the families of those killed in the September 11 terrorist attacks will benefit economically, but some victims say the notion that they will become rich is a misperception....

The Nellie Mae Education Foundation in Braintree, Massachusetts has committed up to $4.6 million over the next five years to develop after-school programs for middle school students in disadvantaged New Hampshire communities....

NPower, the Seattle-based organization that helps nonprofits acquire and use technology, has announced the creation of a nationwide network with the support of Microsoft Corp....

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in Princeton, New Jersey has launched a new program aimed at helping mid-life and older adults incorporate physical activity into everyday routines in order to improve and sustain their health....

The International Association of Fire Fighters has quietly passed out more than $100 million to the families of New York City firefighters, while other charities have been mired in criticism for the way they have handled 9-11 donations....

The Federal Trade Commission has proposed several changes to the Telemarketing Sales Rule, including expanding the rule's coverage to calls made in solicitation of charitable contributions....

A new study from the Commonfund Institute finds that college and university endowments lost an average of three percent during the fiscal year ended June 30....

The Philadelphia-based Pew Charitable Trusts have announced a $4 million grant in support of activities marking the countdown to the tricentennial celebration of Benjamin Franklin's birth....

The California Wellness Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, and the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation have announced new appointments in January....

Cause-related marketing, whereby companies connect themselves to a good cause by contributing a portion of product sales to charity, has steadily gained in popularity in the last fifteen years and especially since the September 11 attacks....