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

The Philadelphia-based initiative awarded five grants to individuals, seven to dance companies, eight to presenters, and two to collaborating organizations....

Critics say the lack of Web savvy in the sector is preventing many nonprofit organizations from achieving the efficiency they urgently need....

The legislation would allow companies to write off as much as 20 percent of their profits for food-related donations, up from the current limit of 10 percent....

The Seattle-based foundation has committed more than $450 million in a nationwide effort to improve graduation rates by making high schools stronger and smaller....

Sites that could receive preservation grants include the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, and the country's oldest synagogue, in Newport, Rhode Island....

CEO Richard Notebaert acknowledged that some have questioned the wisdom of donating money when the company is $20 billion in debt....

Considered a model for combating HIV/AIDS in developing countries, Brazil's program combines free access to antiretroviral treatment with aggressive prevention campaigns....

The grant will support summer courses in embryology, physiology, neural systems and behavior, neurobiology, biology of parasitism, and microbial diversity....

The Foundation Executives Group is seeking to derail a House proposal that would exclude administrative expenses from the payout requirement for private foundations....

While the foundation has been preparing a major anti-poverty initiative, nonprofit leaders in its eight-state service territory are frustrated it hasn't acted more aggressively to help them cope with government cutbacks and reduced donations....

Victims of the terrorist attacks or their families have until December 22 to file claims for awards....

The proposed legislation could increase giving by nine of California's biggest foundations by as much as $35 million a year....

A program in Louisville, Kentucky, is bringing together nonprofit executives in the region to exchange ideas and support each other as they contend with organizational challenges....

The grant will help establish an independent, nonprofit organization focused on developing ways to improve disease diagnosis in poor countries....

The gift, which is contingent upon CGU's raising matching funds within five years, will be used to establish chairs in management as well as scholarship and fellowship programs....

The grants include $85,000 for a San Antonio area preservation site for lesser primates....

Forty-three graduating students from twenty-nine colleges across the country will receive up to $50,000 per year to complete their graduate or professional studies....

The Allen Foundations are unusual in that they have no endowment - Paul Allen funds their projects based on community needs and the quality of the grant applications they receive....

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

Two arts nonprofits claim that the bank did not diversify the trust funds but instead held on to stock in drug company Eli Lilly and Co. even as the share price slumped....

The bill gives the federal government the authority to triple its global AIDS spending over the next five years, focusing on prevention and treatment programs in twelve African nations and two in the Caribbean....

Forty-four organizations in twenty-eight states received funding in this round of grants....

The donation will aid the country's health ministry in setting up a national information exchange network to collect and update SARS data in real time....

While the number of new HIV/AIDS cases has declined or leveled off across most of the country, the number of new cases in the South has increased in recent years, with minorities in the region especially hard hit....

The unrestricted estate gift is the largest bequest in the college's history....

The new schools will be modeled after a highly successful Catholic high school in Chicago that serves low-income and minority youth....

The commission is joining with charity regulators in thirty-four states to crack down on companies and individuals that employ deceptive tactics to solicit funds for charity....