LOS ANGELES — When Charlie Annenberg adopted an abandoned golden retriever named Lucky, a new breed of philanthropy was born. Lucky was 4 in 2001 when he teamed up with Annenberg, scion to a wealthy family known for giving money away.

Ted Turner set an amazing example when he gave a Billion (with a capital B) to the United Nations. In 2010 Warren Buffett figured that Bill and Melinda Gates could be good stewards of his (sizable) estate in order to make the world a better place via …

The AFL-CIO's leadership is scaling back a proposal to bring environmental and civil-rights groups formally into the national labor federation's fold amid objections from member unions, The Wall Street Journal writes. AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka …

Buffett would better have reflected on the possibility that the problem with too much of contemporary philanthropy has not been the fact that it provides little more than a Band-Aid for big and intractable problems—but that it has become unfriendly to …

A prospective Westfield State University donor is withdrawing a $100,000 pledge to the Massachusetts campus to protest what he called “lavish spending” by the institution's president, reports The Boston Globe. John P. Walsh, a Westfield State alumnus …

What if you could donate to charity, and get your money back in full? It seems like there would be a catch, but that's exactly what Causora is doing. The startup, which launched its platform a month ago, allows users to donate to nonprofit …

Private schools should be subject to property taxes and their donors denied income-tax deductions, a Slate blogger argues. Writing for the online magazine's Moneybox economics blog, Matthew Yglesias says conferring economic incentives in the form of …

Westfield State University leader Evan Dobelle said Thursday that an audit of his spending that found he violated university policies was “defaming” and invalid because it was not ordered by the Massachusetts institution's full board of trustees, The …

LOS ANGELES (AP) — When Charlie Annenberg adopted an abandoned golden retriever named Lucky, a new breed of philanthropy was born. Lucky was 4 in 2001 when he teamed up with Annenberg, scion to a wealthy family known for giving money away.