The Community Foundation of Carroll County honors an individual, a youth, a community business partnership, a nonprofit organization and a legacy philanthropist at a ceremony each year. What: Carroll County Philanthropists of the Year awards ceremony.

By Erika Angulo, Reporter, NBC News. MARION, Iowa — More than 950 miles from Capitol Hill, a group of Iowa mothers has teamed up to keep the federal government shutdown from affecting the health of babies in their community. They're handing out baby …

Much of Wexner's discussion yesterday with WBNS-TV's Kristyn Hartman focused on the influence his father (a Russian immigrant and Columbus businessman) and the great American industrialists had on his development as a philanthropist. Wexner, 76 and …

By William D. Eggers and Paul Macmillan, Dowser. A couple of weeks ago, pianist Jonathan Biss was set to teach an online course on Beethoven's Sonatas. A whopping 32,000 people signed up for the course when it went live, leaving Biss — who expected a …

The group's sudden success underscores women's growing economic clout in philanthropy, said Lee Roper-Batker, CEO of the Women's Foundation of Minnesota. “One year ago, we had 65 people show up for our first meeting; now we have closer to 120,” …

The Arnolds' public announcement of their gift was a refreshingly humble statement about the relationship between philanthropy and government: “We sincerely hope that our government gets back to work in short order, as private dollars cannot in the …

My business idea is a social enterprise which is 'disruptive philanthropy' (see: disruptive innovation) whereby we use sport as a vehicle to mobilise social change by engaging an under-engaged demographic in the charity space in order to create future …

Kwame Kilpatrick, the former Detroit mayor convicted earlier this year in a high-profile corruption case that began with allegations that he misused a nonprofit he established to aid city youths, was sentenced Thursday to 28 years in prison, the …

But when Stan Gault stood on the platform in the Arden Shisler Conference Center on Wednesday night to accept the Friend of Philanthropy Award on behalf of the couple, Flo could not be there. She died in April. While absent in body, Steve Gault said he …