Gates Foundation Supports Agriculture
Foundation: Gates Foundation
Bill Gates announced nearly $200 million in grants from his foundation to aid agricultural projects of small farmers, encouraging the use of technology to improve plant breeding. Among the...more

Habitat for Humanity Builds Memorial Community Garden
The Rocky Mount Area Habitat for Humanity, in partnership with other organizations have established the Rocky Mount Area Habitat for Humanity Jay and Fran Smith Memorial Community Garden. The...more

Barbara Bush Foundation awards grants to literacy programs
Foundation: Bush Foundation
Lebanon Family Learners that has been awarded a grant from the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy. The grant in the amount of $25,000 will be used to sustain local programs focused on...more

Grants from San Marcos Community Foundation
The San Marcos Community Foundation provided several funds to community organizations that serve San Marcos. Recent grants given include $8,500 to Elizabeth Hospice, which provides end-of-life...more

Alabama Law Impinges on Rights of Pregnant Women
Foundation: Ford Foundation
National Advocates for Pregnant Women, a Ford Foundation grantee of Promoting Reproductive Rights and the Right to Sexual Health initiative was featured in a recent New York Times Magazine exploring...more

Christina-Taylor Green Memorial Foundation Awards $190,000
The Christina-Taylor Green Memorial Foundation have awarded grants amounting to over $190,000 to 16 Southern Arizona organizations and schools. According to Tina Mead-Ramirez, vice president of...more

Tennis Grants in Florida
The United States Tennis Association-Florida Section Foundation has opened its grant application program for 2012 with a maximum grant request of $10,000. The foundation provides financial support...more

Livingston Memorial Foundation Grant Recipients
Foundation: Point Foundation
The Livingston Memorial Foundation recently presented $414,000 in grants to 30 Ventura County nonprofits for the 2011-12 year as the organization continues its mission of underwriting health care for...more

urb.im by Ford Foundation and Dallant Networks
Foundation: Skoll Foundation, Ford Foundation
Ford Foundation and Dallant Networks launches a new new global, multilingual social media platform engages urban practitioners and social activists in focused problem-solving to reduce urban poverty...more

Cupid's Undie Run
For the 2012 Cupid's Undie Run, about 3,000 runners and 800 were from D.C., participated in six cities across the country for this national fundraiser event to benefit the Children's Tumor...more