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In the NewsOctober 15, 2008
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Nonprofit Finance Fund Announce Participants in Performing Arts Initiative
Funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Leading for the Future: Innovative Support for Artistic Excellence program is designed to help performing arts groups explore new business and funding models....

Despite Downturn, There's Hope for Charitable Giving, Researchers Say
According to John J. Havens, an authority on empirical patterns of wealth at Boston College's Center on Wealth and Philanthropy, the impact of the current crisis may not be seen in charitable giving levels for a year or more....

Exelon Corporation Partners With Field Museum to Protect Tropical Forests, Measure Carbon Offsets
The Take One Step program will support the efforts of the museum's Environment, Culture, and Conservation division to develop an international protocol for avoided-deforestation carbon offsets....

National Semiconductor Foundation Awards Up to $1.2 Million to Boost Math, Science Education
Power of Education grants were awarded to organizations in the company's three major U.S. operating communities for projects that embrace inquiry-based teaching strategies and demonstrate impact and sustainability in math and science....

RFP of the Day

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Accepting Letters of Inquiry for National Projects in Performing Arts
Deadline: 11/01/08 (Letters of Inquiry)
Job of the Day

Executive Director
Novato Youth Center
Novato, California

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The newest article in our career-related series,
"Turning Down a Job Offer" offers advice about how to decline a job gracefully while gaining valuable skills in the process....
Connections

Civil Society
The James Irvine Foundation report New Experiments in Minority Voter Mobilization suggests that the key to reaching California's minority voters is personal contact....
5 Questions For...

Vickie Benson
PND spoke with Benson, arts program director at the McKnight Foundation, about the economic slowdown and its impact on arts groups in the metro area and beyond....
NPO Spotlight

Poets & Writers
Begun in an apartment near Manhattan's theater district, P&W has grown into the largest nonprofit organization in the country for writers of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction....
Off the Shelf

Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America
New York Times Magazine editor Paul Tough documents the evolution of Canada's approach to ending poverty....
On the Web

Better World Campaign
A project of Ted Turner's Better World Fund, BWC calls attention to the role and value of the UN in finding shared solutions that promote peace and prosperity around the world....

Recent News by Subject

Arts and Culture

Americans for the Arts Announces Winners of 2008 National Arts Awards 10/11/08

Children and Youth

Public-Private Partnership Launched to Promote Empowerment of Adolescent Girls 10/14/08

Pickens Foundation Awards $3 Million to Big Brothers Big Sisters 10/11/08

Education

MacArthur Foundation Commits $15 Million for Master's in Development Practice Programs 10/14/08

Babson College Receives $10.8 Million From Lewis Charitable Foundation 10/14/08

Furman University Receives $17 Million From Duke Endowment 10/13/08

Verizon Foundation Awards $2.2 Million to Create Afterschool Program 10/13/08

Brown University Graduate School Receives $3 Million From Mellon Foundation 10/12/08

Menlo College Receives $20 Million Bequest 10/12/08

Human Services

Homeless, Transitional Shelters in Maryland See Dip in Donations 10/12/08

Journalism/Media

Foundations Announce Completion of Journalism Fund Competition, Beginning of Next Challenge 10/11/08

Philanthropy and Voluntarism

Nonprofit Leaders Need to Master Changing Environment, Study Finds 10/14/08

Bay Area Charities Brace for Fallout From Economic Downturn 10/13/08

People in the News (10/12/08): Appointments and Promotions 10/12/08

Community Foundation Update (10/11) 10/11/08

Science/Technology

Richard Leakey Calls Economic Crisis 'Devastating' for Science 10/13/08


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