Community philanthropists, service groups and volunteer leaders will be honored at the National Philanthropy Day awards luncheon on Nov. 7. The event will take place at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront Hotel. More than 175 nominations were submitted this …

Centre College, a small Kentucky institution, announced today that a $250-million gift it announced in July has been withdrawn, the Associated Press reports. The college said in a news release on Monday that the donation from the A. Eugene Brockman …

INDIANAPOLIS — Civic engagement with a special focus on service learning is the theme of the second biennial Indianapolis Women's Philanthropy Conference on Friday, Nov. 8, in Indianapolis. Open to the public, the event offers a day of philanthropic …

The inventors and engineers at Compatible Technology International have been developing tools to help African farmers process grain for years. But they've never had a streamlined system for putting them in farmers' hands — until now. The unusual St …

Too often, we measure a company's worth by the bottom line figures. Sales, earnings, share price — those are the metrics that rule the day. That's not hard to understand. Business is a numbers game, and those numbers certainly matter.

We both hail from Brooklyn and when we got married 58 years ago our goal in life was very simple. We wanted to do well enough to be able to afford a deep fryer. This is the honest truth. Sandy worked as a runner on Wall Street making $150 a month …

NEW YORK — Two scientists who illuminated how brain cells communicate, three researchers who developed implants that let deaf people hear and philanthropists Bill and Melinda Gates have won prestigious Lasker Awards for medical research and …

Two areas of major medical discovery and two leading public health philanthropists were announced this morning as the winners of the prestigious Lasker Awards. The awards, currently in their 68th year, are typically looked to as a precursor for the …

Spectators watch competitors during the third annual Dragon Boat Festival at English Park in Owensboro, Ky. The inaugural Lewes Dragon Boat Race will take place at Canalfront Park on Sunday, Sept. 15 / AP PHOTO …