The government agency that oversees the Combined Federal Campaign, an annual charity drive for federal employees, may propose sweeping changes to the strict rules governing the campaign, reports The Washington Post. The proposals would eliminate a requirement that participating charities limit…
Harvard Business School has raised nearly $600-million in its capital campaign, setting a fund-raising record among business schools and eclipsing its goal by $100-million, reports The Boston Globe. The money will be used to support financial aid, faculty recruitment, new research centers,…
Mourners who have paid tribute to Coretta Scott King’s memory in recent days could provide a much-needed infusion of cash to the nonprofit organization she founded to honor her late husband, reports the Associated Press. “I think there’s just going to be an outpouring of gifts,” says Andrew Young,…
More than 5,000 people were treated this week at a free clinic set up in the New Orleans zoo to help ease the medical-care crisis that has erupted after last year’s hurricanes, reports the Los Angeles Times. Nearly half of the city’s hospitals are closed, many medical and dental offices are…
The Wall Street Journal reports a recent international move to preserve the memory of the Cold War and its horrors. To add to memorials and museums across Eastern Europe, the United States plans to open the Victims of Communism Memorial, in Washington, and a Cold War museum in Lorton, Va. The Wende…
The Eugene Bell Foundation, a U.S. charity that supports tuberculosis clinics in North Korea, has announced a new program to reconnect ethnic Koreans living in the United States with relatives still in the isolated Communist state, reports the Los Angeles Times. Millions of families were separated…
The British Museum unveils today a 1,200-year-old Anglo-Saxon coin purchased for $630,000 with donations from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and other charities, reports the Associated Press. To keep it in British hands, the government had placed a temporary export ban on the coin, which was…
As baby boomers enter retirement age, a nonprofit organization in Boston is becoming a nationwide model for providing alternatives to nursing homes, The New York Times reports. Beacon Hill Village requires its residents to pay membership dues that cover grocery shopping, transportation, classes and…