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KTAB Abilene - 29 minutes ago
A delivery truck swerved into a creek and it's contents were donated to a local non-profit organization.
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The Tribune-Democrat - 37 minutes ago
LIGONIER — The nonprofit that helped with a Jennerstown streetscape and funded restoration of the Coffee Pot in Bedford and a giant bicycle built for two in Somerset County now finds itself looking for money.
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Odessa American - 1 hour 2 minutes ago
Students across Odessa are taking part in a wide variety of charitable events this holiday season. Fifth-graders at Goliad Elementary started out early this year by collecting and donating 1,649 nonperishable food items to Servants of the Poor.
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The Bristol Press - 2 hours 14 minutes ago
PLYMOUTH — A year after a fire destroyed the Animal Rescue Foundation, Inc. shelter, the non-profit organization is far along in its effort to rebuild. However, it still has a long way to go, and ARF members aren’t stopping in their fund-raising and promotion because they think about that fire and what they lost and how much the animals have lost.
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Press & Sun-Bulletin - 2 hours 21 minutes ago
A three-year $883,000 grant from the National Science Foundation is expected to convert Cornell's e-print arXiv of scientific papers from a simple database to an interaction site where authors, articles, databases and readers talk to each other to help users identify a work's main concepts, see research reports in context and easily find related work.
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Press & Sun-Bulletin - 2 hours 33 minutes ago
ALBANY-- For many nonprofit groups, fundraising drives are a major component in keeping them in business. Many of them turn to telemarketers for help.
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Long Beach Press-Telegram - Fri Nov 27, 9:10 pm ET
Peter Chhun's nonprofit, Hearts Without Boundaries brings destitute children with heart problems from Cambodia to the U.S. for life-saving surgery. Related story: 2-year-old gets help from agency
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Slashdot - Fri Nov 27, 8:26 pm ET
eldavojohn writes "Reuters explains how the National Science Foundation's Cyber-Enabled Discovery and Innovation (CDI) program is funding research used to implement real life crimes in a CSI-like game. They will use IC-CRIME's laser scanner technology and the Unity platform (which recently enjoyed the release of a freeware version) to recreate the crime scene as closely as possible. The crime ...
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Ventura County Star - Fri Nov 27, 8:18 pm ET
Jymmye Hitch Banhart, known to all as “Mimi,” was a longtime donor to The Star’s Bellringer holiday fundraising drive. This year, one of the first Bellringer donations comes in memory of Hitch Banhart, who died Sept. 8 at the age of 86.Her son, Gary Hitch, and his wife, Dorothy Hitch, donated $200 last week. They were continuing a family tradition started by Mimi Hitch Banhart, who started ...
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Saratoga News - Fri Nov 27, 8:15 pm ET
Nonprofit forced to deal with soaring demand while contributions sink.
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Boone News Republican - Fri Nov 27, 7:52 pm ET
Boone A&M FFA today announced it has received $10,000 from the Monsanto Fund, a private foundation and the philanthropic arm of Monsanto Company. These funds will help support the Boone A&M FFA’s Monsanto Agricultural Mobile Learning Laboratory. This lab is designed to educate, inform, and entertain agricultural consumers in and around Boone County. The MAMLL is capable of housing livestock ...
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Jefferson City News Tribune - Fri Nov 27, 7:21 pm ET
ST. LOUIS (AP) -- A St. Louis-based group that helps families of police and firefighters killed in the line of duty is getting an $82,000 donation. BackStoppers is marking its 40th year of operation in 12 counties of eastern Missouri and five on the Illinois side of the St. Louis metro area.
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Fontana Herald News - Fri Nov 27, 7:06 pm ET
The Fontana Community Foundation (FCF) is the recipient of a $10,000 grant from the AT&T Foundation as part of its efforts to further high school retention and college and workforce readiness programs.
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Boulder Daily Camera - Fri Nov 27, 6:46 pm ET
Billy Baumgartner, 18, senior at Boulder High School Accomplishment: Billy is the co-founder of Boulder High School CARE (Creative Activism, Revolutionary Equality), a philanthropic group that is currently raising money to help ship food to Haiti.
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WNDU 16 South Bend - Fri Nov 27, 6:40 pm ET
St. Vincent de Paul of St. Joseph County received $20,000 from an anonymous donor.