AmeriCares and GE Foundation for Health Care Services
Foundation: GE Foundation
The GE Foundation has supported AmeriCares in expanding access to health care for low-income and uninsured Americans through a $700,000 grant. There will be more free clinics nationwide and an...more

Social Entrepreneurship Is Bringing Purpose To Higher Education
A post written by Robin Pendoley, co-founder and CEO of Thinking Beyond Borders, tackles how higher education in the U.S. is facing a crisis where students, parents, and employers are all expressing...more

Project Green: On Protecting Watersheds
Foundation: Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
More than 1,200 students from two Michigan counties joined the field test water quality through the Green Program. Dan Hammond's environmental science class at Beecher High School, near Flint,...more

Five Ways to Get Free Legal Help for Your Social Enterprise
Steve Moilanen, a social entrepreneur, shares his experiences on getting free legal help for social entrepreneurs. Moilanen stresses that it's not about how to avoid needing legal help but how to...more

Patriots Football Players in Community Service
The Park View High School football team under the new program, Coaches in the Classroom, joined efforts with the Sterling Foundation to clean up the 3-plus miles Sterling Boulevard. The Sterling...more

Fond du Lac Area Foundation Awards $103,300 in Grants
Foundation: Fond du Lac Area Foundation
The Fond du Lac Area Foundation recently awarded 25 grants to nonprofit organizations within the community amounting to $103,300 in the fields of health, human service, the arts, the environment,...more

My Journey with Community Philanthropy
This article talks about what will be left of this world for our children? Will they inherit something beautiful that they can continue to make great? Or will we leave them a rotten mess for them to...more

$250,000 Energy Grant for Ottawa
With the help of Illinois Clean Energy Community Foundation, the city of Ottawa has received a $250,000 grant to upgrade its wastewater treatment plant that will lead to efficiency and saving...more

Successes of Philanthropy Series Sheds Light on Nonprofit Victories
Washington Monthy announced that it will begin to highlight successes in Philanthropies in a new series called, The Successes of Philanthropies. New stories, which will be added weekly, will...more

Deadline approaching for nonprofits to register for Giving Day
It's not too late for for nonprofits to register for Fairfield County's Giving Day Event. The purpose of the event is so the county can showcase all of the different charities that people can "give...more