University of California, San Francisco Receives $16 Million From Gates Foundation
Two grants were awarded for research aimed at reducing childhood mortality and disease in developing countries, including $4.3 million to a team working to identify and develop a drug which kills the parasitic roundworm that causes river blindness....
Nonprofits Face Entrenched Fundraising Challenges, Study Finds
Many nonprofits are caught in a vicious cycle involving high turnover and instability in development director positions, a dearth of qualified candidates, and a lack of organizational capacity and conditions for fundraising success, the report finds....
Google Invests $200 Million in Texas Wind Farm, Awards Grant to Energy Foundation
Located in Oldham County, about thirty-five miles west of Amarillo, the Spinning Spur Wind Project encompasses seventy Siemens wind turbines capable of producing 161 megawatts of electricity....
Dennis and Phyllis Washington Foundation Awards $1.6 Million for Teacher Development
The grant will finance joint efforts by the University of Montana and Missoula County Public Schools to provide professional development for teachers and build a scalable teacher development model for the twenty-first-century....
In his latest article, Achieve CEO Derrick Feldman looks at the five components of Web site usability and how they relate to donor retention and the online giving experience....
With the fiscal cliff behind us, the CEO of the California Association of Nonprofits says we need to think creatively about the charitable deduction and other revenue-generating measures....
PND spoke with the manager of OSF's Campaign for Black Male Achievement about its new report and policy changes necessary for the well-being of African-American men and boys....
The Culture Quest Web site uses interactive content and games to help students and their teachers engage with the collections of the National Museum of the American Indian....
On the blog, FC president Brad Smith considers the unique role of philanthropic freedom, and LISC research/assessment director Chris Walker describes his org's scaling process....
