Indevus Pharmaceuticals sending 125 sales representatives to landscape homes for Jericho Road Episcopal Housing Initiative, New Orleans.
- October 2, 2008Nonprofit Center at La Salle University, Philadelphia, organizing CLEAR Circle support groups for nonprofit executive directors for meeting and discussion; call 215.951.1701 for information.
- October 2, 2008Targeted Solutions offering TA Matching Fund Grant for capacity-building services to nonprofits serving children, youth in Philadelphia area; apply online.
- October 2, 2008JMT Consulting Group, serving nonprofits, acquired NFP Consultants, value-added reseller serving nonprofits, tribes, governmental organizations.
- October 2, 2008Adobe Systems created Adobe Foundation to manage Adobe Youth Voices program, which offers digital-tools training to underserved youths.
- October 2, 2008Kosair Children's Hospital, Louisville, Ky., Children's Hospital Foundation, Norton Healthcare announced $208M Just for Kids campaign to benefit hospital.
- October 2, 2008National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy named board members: Robert Edgar, president and CEO, Common Cause; Pablo Eisenberg, senior fellow, Georgetown University Public Policy Institute; Priscilla Hung, co-director, Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training.
- October 2, 2008James Irvine Foundation published report on California Votes Initiative to encourage voter participation in low-income, minority communities.
- October 2, 2008Jacqueline S. Mata, former executive director, named chief operations officer, KDK-Harman Foundation, Austin, Texas.
- October 2, 2008Neeraj Mistry, founder, Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, named senior VP, APCO Worldwide.
- September 30, 2008Larry E. Thomas, founder, Guitar Center Music Foundation, to be first recipient of California United Bank Community Service Award.
- September 30, 2008Artist Lin Evola-Smidt launched Art of Peace Charitable Trust to foster peace through art and education and convert weapon stockpiles into art objects.
- September 30, 2008DePaul University received total of $1.2M in grants from Polk Bros. Foundation, National Science Foundation, Autism Speaks Family Community, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
- September 30, 2008Bryan Van Dorpe, former executive director, South Boston Neighborhood House, named executive director, Youth Enrichment Services, Boston.
- September 30, 2008Liz Smith, journalist and writer, and Gerald L. Storch, chairman and CEO, Toys "R" Us, honored by New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children for their efforts to benefit youth.
- September 30, 2008Steven W. Young, former administrative director, General Clinical Research Centers, named president, Addario Lung Cancer Medical Institute.