Officials gathered Wednesday afternoon for a proclamation signing with Russell Mayor Curt Mader, who declared it “Russell County Area Community Foundation Day.” Since its inception 12 years ago, the Community Foundation and donors have returned …

The Boy Scouts of America has disallowed Scouts deemed morbidly obese from attending its national Jamboree, which opened Monday at a new site in the West Virginia mountains, writes the Associated Press. Only troop members and leaders with a body …

The Hunts will receive the Award in Philanthropy for their commitment to giving back to the local community. The couple most recently founded Hunt Utilities Group, a coalition of minds focusing on research and development of alternative energies as …

Matthew Fleurant, age 4, is thinking more about his next video game session than the chain of events set in motion by a near-fatal accident last October. That's OK. His family — including grandparents Paula (above) and Ken Fleurant — tell the story …

The 28th Judicial District Bar of Buncombe County will sponsor a Habitat for Humanity house in Swannanoa. Members of the bar will raise $55,000 to help pay for the cost of building and will also donate their time to help build the home. The celebratory …

The Center for High Impact Philanthropy at the University of Pennsylvania has released the Food Funder Compass, a free, online guide to help United States donors channel their charitable dollars into organizations and models that make the biggest …

An unusually broad coalition of nonprofit organizations has joined forces in a legal challenge to the National Security Agency's electronic monitoring program, the Associated Press and Bloomberg write. Nineteen plaintiffs ranging from environmental and …

The New York Times was once considered the nation's newspaper of record – and deservedly so. Of late, it is a far cry from the days when the legendary A.M. Rosenthal supervised the editorial page, which, to be sure, leaned to the left, but was …

It's a question pertaining to philanthropy and those groups which rely on it; the nation's vital $300 billion in annual charitable giving is fueled in no small part by the tax deduction for charitable giving. With this as backdrop, I recently engaged …