The latest staff and board announcements around the philanthropic community....

The grant is intended to assist the Marin Community Clinic meet the challenges of providing services to a rapidly growing client base....

With the grant, Shorebank Corporation's Urban Logic unit will complete development of and launch a line of services that provide an effective way to predict the potential for business success in cities, neighborhood by neighborhood....

Goals of the center include educating influential leaders about reproductive genetics, supporting research to assess public attitudes and concerns about the field, and creating a set of policy options for guiding the use of advances over the long-term....

The Oracle grant is part of a UNCF capital campaign launched to strengthen the technology capacities of the its member institutions by bolstering software, hardware, technical support, training, and faculty development....

The university's Cell Systems Initiative hopes to develop a prototype of an observation platform that will allow real-time measurement of complex processes within cells....

The five-year research grant is intended to allow premier research institutions to pursue new avenues of research at their discretion....

The American Foundation for AIDS Research has awarded research grants for new research on HIV/AIDS, including grants to projects specifically aimed at developing new anti-HIV drugs....

The grants will be used to create new small schools and transform large, impersonal high schools into smaller schools in four to six urban districts throughout the state....

The members of the international panel have expertise in the fields of disease control and prevention, clinical care, health education, and international development....

The gift kicks off a major fundraising effort to collect a total of $200 million to build and equip a new research building and recruit and support world-class genetic and molecular scientists....

With more than 1.2 million nonprofit organizations in America employing some 10.9 million workers, the nonprofit sector is becoming an increasingly important part of the U.S. economy....

Juvenile drug abuse violations involving young people jumped 144 percent between 1987 and 1996, while two-thirds of young people in juvenile justice facilities receive no substance abuse treatment at all....

Accompanied by former President Jimmy Carter, William H. Gates, Sr., announced the grants at an HIV/AIDS town forum in Nairobi....

In the hours and days following the attacks, more than 100 million Americans sent or received e-mails expressing support, grief, and shock, and thousands of stories and recollections were documented using Web sites and other digital media....

The study showed troubling data for the fifth year in a row about the basic skills of high school graduates....

Developed in collaboration with researchers at Johns Hopkins University, the new handbook outlines a methodology for measuring the contribution of nonprofits to national economies....

The gift from the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust will be used to support pioneering research programs, capital projects, and grants for individual research projects....

ICCl presented the award at its Eighth Biennial Symposium on Minorities, the Medically Underserved, and Cancer in Washington, D.C....

The latest staff and board announcements around the philanthropic community....

The Bob Hope archive will be an assembly of existing and future comedy-oriented interviews....

Sara Becker, the foundation's current vice president, succeeds Linda Lee Alter, becoming Leeway's second president.....

When United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan proposed the Fund last year, he said the fight against the infectious diseases would require as much as $10 billion a year....

In related news, New York City's Twin Towers Fund has agreed to transer its remaining $100 million to former mayor Rudy Giuliani's private charity of the same name...

The president will promote his plan and greet model volunteers across the country....

Many have communications and financial barriers to care, and lack trust in doctors....

21st Century Initiatives project provides support to three important sectors of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community....

The federal agency also advises charities that, in light of the considerable funds contributed for 9/11 relief, it will be reviewing available information and will contact certain organizations for additional information about their activities....