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Allied Arts of Greater Chattanooga has been awarded a $124,000 grant from the Kresge Foundation. The grant from the Troy, Michigan based foundation will fund Allied Arts’ Capacity Building, Sustainability and Technical Assistance Program.
A delivery truck swerved into a creek and it's contents were donated to a local non-profit organization.
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.
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.
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.
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.
ALBANY-- For many nonprofit groups, fundraising drives are a major component in keeping them in business. Many of them turn to telemarketers for help.
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
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 ...
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 ...
Nonprofit forced to deal with soaring demand while contributions sink.
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 ...
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.
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.
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.
St. Vincent de Paul of St. Joseph County received $20,000 from an anonymous donor.
Should the government register nonprofit groups like the U.S ...
The economy has forced many nonprofit groups to cut expenses, ...
Billionaire Eli Broad has chosen seven people who he says are ...
Are students facing economic or social problems “at risk” ...
A robust and much-needed debate has erupted about how to solve ...
Tim Ogden is challenging the thinking of two of the world’s ...
