Community Foundation Update (2/04/12)
News and staff announcements from community foundations around the country....
Charitable Giving in Texas, Nationwide Jumped in 2011
According to a study conducted by the Atlas of Giving, a Dallas-based forecasting service, Americans gave nearly $346 billion to charity in 2011, an increase of 7.5 percent year-over-year....
Community Foundation of Acadiana Awards Nearly $3 Million to Communities Affected by Oil Spill
The foundation and five regional partners were selected by Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors to re-grant funds it had received from an anonymous donor....
Pacific Life Foundation Awards $2.4 Million in Grants
The foundation will provide support to organizations working in each of its four main program areas — arts and culture; civic involvement, community, and the environment; education; and health and human services....
In the latest installment of our Alliance@PND series, Caroline Hartnell talks with Stephanie Shirley and Roberta d'Eustachio, of Ambassadors for Philanthropy.... 
Laura Barooshian and William Jenczyk of consultancy DiCicco, Gulman & Co. explain why private foundations should want to be audited....
PND spoke with the co-founder of Venture Philan-
Founded in 2010, Code for America works to transform city governments across America by enlisting the nation's most promising developers to apply Web 2.0 principles to civic problems....
In the first of a series of four posts, Demos senior fellow Michael Edwards suggests it's time to debate the outcomes the sector seeks, not just how to measure the ones it's already selected....
