Many public schools looking to fill gaps left by deep budget cuts are hiring fundraising professionals to solicit donations from wealthy individuals, corporations, and foundations....

As a result, many museums, theaters, and other organizations are cutting performances and exhibitions, in addition to reducing staff and days of operation....

Enaam M. Arnaout, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Syria, faces up to twenty years in prison after pleading guilty to a single count of racketeering conspiracy....

The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations awarded the grant to speed up the delivery of vaccines against pneumonia, meningitis, and similar diseases to children in the world's poorest countries....

The real estate mogul has pledged up to $1 million over four years to help the agency combat the problems of hunger and homelessness....

The foundation, which was created by Boston Scientific founder John Abele and his wife, is expected to become the largest foundation in Wisconsin over the next few years....

The Center, set to open in 2004, aims to use the story of the Underground Railroad to promote racial understanding....

The Richard King Mellon Foundation has orchestrated what is most likely the biggest private land conservation drive and handed the bulk of the acreage over to local and federal governments for parks and public recreation....

Domino's Pizza founder Tom Monaghan, who has committed $200 million to the new Ave Maria University, has said the school will be far more conservative than many other Catholic schools....

A judge has ruled that a portion of the assets from the sale must stay in Kansas and remain in a Kansas corporation....

The foundation has awarded a four-year, $3.6 million grant to the University of Wisconsin Madison to study the best practices of afterschool programs, particularly those that focus on underserved populations....

The Chicago-based ADA has merged all of its charitable organizations into the ADA Foundation, which will provide funding for dental education and research, assistance to dental professionals, and oral health access and awareness programs....

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

Charity-owned life insurance is an updated version of corporate-owned life insurance -- the practice of employers taking out policies on their employees and designating the company as beneficiary....

The City Spaces program is a public-private partnership dedicated to providing permanent, community-managed recreation spaces....

The legislation would allow taxpayers who don't itemize their tax deductions to write off a portion of their charitable donations and permit tax-free donations from individual retirement accounts....

Teresa Heinz, chairperson of the Heinz Family Philanthropies, has renewed her pledge to help Massachusetts make cost effective changes in the state's prescription drug program for senior citizens to help keep the program open to new beneficiaries....

Because capital campaigns raise money to expand or improve facilities, they are typically one of the first things to go when nonprofits are forced to trim expenses....

The gift will support enhanced services at UT Southwestern's general internal medicine division, whose physicians see patients for illnesses ranging from allergies to heart disease....

Fellows receive one- and two-year stipends, ranging from $35,000 to $98,200....

After seeing contributions to its annual workplace campaigns steadily decline from a peak of $26 million ten years ago, the agency set a modest goal of $15 million for 2003 and exceeded it by more than $1 million....

Harvard officials said the decision to return the gift was mutual and is a reflection of the university's new attitude toward research centers....

According to United Way sources, many corporations have decided not to participate in the organization's fundraising campaign after a string of accounting missteps became public last year....

In addition, the Fund has announced a commitment of $866 million over two years to fight the diseases....

A lawsuit filed by Liesel Pritzker in November alleges that her father drained her trusts of $1 billion and distributed the money to eleven of her cousins and half siblings and the Pritzker Foundation....

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

Launched in 1990 in Boston, the Steppingstone Foundation prepares underprivileged students for acceptance at top public exam high schools....

At present, there is no definitive diagnostic test for Parkinson's, and clinical diagnosis is based on a patient's medical history and neurological examination. The misdiagnosis rate is estimated to be as high as 25 percent....