Officials estimate that the September 11 terrorist attacks have affected more than 10,000 businesses and some 377,000 workers....

The fund is being launched in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks that prompted an outpouring of donations worldwide for victims of those attacks and the subsequent military action in Afghanistan....

The Red Cross has announced that it will spend $317.5 million of its Liberty Disaster Fund on aid to families affected by the September 11 terrorist attacks and that former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell has agreed to oversee the Fund....

The Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California at Santa Barbara has announced a $7.5 million gift from the Kavli Foundation, recently established by Fred Kavli, the founder and former chairman and CEO of Kavlico Corp....

The New York Times Company Foundation awarded grants to three organizations in the Washington, D.C. area to benefit people whose lives have been affected by the terrorist attacks of September 11.

The Improving Campaigns project will work on developing a set of best practices to demonstrate how practicing better politics can be a winning campaign strategy....

The Endowment supports a coalition of four northwest Indiana community foundations working to improve the educational level of thousands of workers in the northwest part of the state....

A survey by the U.S. Conference of Mayors found that requests for emergency shelter in twenty-seven cities had increased an average of 13 percent over last year....

The goals of the show are to encourage children to feel beat, meter and rhythm; to think and sing tunes; and to respond to the expressiveness in music....

GEO names Kathleen P. Enright as the organization's first executive director....

Lois Salisbury will direct and manage the $30 million annual grantmaking CFC Program....

Donor-advised funds are gaining popularity among fledgling philanthropists....

The Mott Foundation has awarded grants to support disaster and humanitarian relief initiatives at home and abroad in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks....

The McKnight Foundation has announced more than 75 grants to organizations that focus on children, families, and communities in Minnesota....

The awards are expected to average $1.65 million per family, based largely on the lost earning power of those who died in the attacks....

The three recipients will each receive $2.65 million and will, in turn, make grants to small and mid-sized performing arts organizations in the city....

The slowing economy is hurting the nonprofit sector's fundraising efforts far more than the diversion of donations to September 11 efforts, but the downturn may ultimately have a positive effect on nonprofits by increasing donor involvement....

The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has announced a five-year, $2.5 million grant to the University Park Alliance in Akron, Ohio, to help launch a community revitalization project in the city....

The group laying the groundwork for the United Nations' Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has completed its work, paving the way for the Fund's board to create a framework document and begin operations....

The Los Altos, California-based David and Lucile Packard Foundation has approved nearly thirty Population Program grants totaling $9 million for international family planning programs in some of the world's poorest countries....

The Rockefeller family has made a $15 million contribution to the Blanchette Rockefeller Neurosciences Institute, which was established by Senator John D. Rockefeller IV (D-WV) in 1999 as the first major research institute focusing on memory....

Bernard Marcus and Arthur M. Blank, the founders of Home Depot, Inc., are changing the philanthropic landscape in the city of Atlanta, which has mostly benefited from the wealth of Coca-Cola Co. in the last century....

The U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation has awarded the third round of Basic Research and Higher Education awards to strengthen the basic research capabilities of Russian higher education institutions in the natural sciences....

The Citigroup Foundation has awarded a $1 million grant over four years to the United Negro College Fund for the organization's Technology Enhancement Capital Campaign....

Independent Sector has announced a $650,000 grant from the Indianapolis-based Lilly Endowment to support research on religion and philanthropy and their impact on society....

The Santa Clara Family Health Foundation has received a $1.9 million grant from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation to support Santa Clara County's Healthy Kids program, which provides health insurance to children....

According to the Urban Institute, compensation of nonprofit executives varies significantly among different types of organizations, making new IRS regulations that tax nonprofits providing excessive executive compensation difficult to implement....

The New York-based Doris Duke Charitable Foundation has announced it will contribute $6 million to organizations working to promote forest conservation in the Southern Appalachian region of Alabama, North Carolina, and Tennessee....