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September 1, 2010 From X Prize Foundation
The X PRIZE Foundation, an educational non-profit that designs and administers competitions with prizes of up to $30 million, the Government of India’s Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) and the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi have formed a partnership to create a...
August 26, 2010 From Detroit News
These are still grim times for many nonprofit organizations.
And then there's Goodwill Industries of Greater Detroit, a $22 million "business that happens to be a nonprofit," President Lorna Utley, a former General Motors Co. executive, told me this week. "About half of our revenue is earned. Very
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August 10, 2010 From Chronicle of Philanthropy
Corporate profits are on the rebound, but most big businesses say it will be some time before they can give as much cash as they did before the recession, according to a Chronicle survey of 162 of the country’s largest corporations....
August 5, 2010 From Philanthropy News Digest
The Giving Pledge, the campaign launched by Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett to encourage the nation's billionaires to give at least half of their fortunes to charity, has announced that forty families and individuals have signed on...
July 19, 2010 From Seattle Times
Billionaire Paul Allen has taken his friend Bill Gates up on his challenge to publicly pledge the majority of his wealth to philanthropy.
Allen, who is 57, said today that he plans to leave the majority of his $13 billion estate to philanthropy to continue the work of...
June 21, 2010 From MercuryNews.com
As a young analyst at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Howard Bornstein witnessed the massive philanthropic impact of the Microsoft founder and his wife. Bornstein realized his best chance to have a remotely similar impact would be to sharpen the philanthropy of...
May 27, 2010 From Seattle Times
Is Microsoft an incubator for social entrepreneurship?
Over the years, plenty of people have retired from the company to start a second career in philanthropy or to create new enterprises that address social issues.
Microsoft alumni have founded and supported more than 150 non-profit organizations and social ventures working
...March 31, 2010 From News
March 31, 2010, Los Angeles Times — A group of businesses and advocacy organizations, including Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., the American Civil Liberties Union and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said Tuesday that it is calling for an update to a decades-old privacy law it considers seriously outdated. The law governs how and when law enforcement agencies can access citizens' private electronic communications.
Dubbing itself Digital Due Process, the group said the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) was written in a time before the Web had become a ubiquitous communications medium, where users around the world store huge amounts of personal information for years or even decades at a time.
Prosecutors and law enforcement frequently request e-mails and other online data when performing investigations, but private companies have argued that the guidelines for such requests have become too loose for their comfort.
March 1, 2010 From News
Palo Alto, Calif., March 1, 2010 — CauseWorld, the mobile application that allows consumers to give to causes just by entering retail stores and restaurants, has added the option to contribute to the Chile earthquake relief effort. The funds sent to Chile through the app will be facilitated by CauseWorld partner GlobalGiving, a nonprofit aid resource for disaster relief and long-term development around the world.
November 19, 2009 From News
Los Angeles, CA, November 10, 2009 — Ad.ly is a unique Twitter platform that is connecting Twitter users, also known as publishers, with top-tier advertisers allowing for the publisher to make money from ads sent through their Twitter feed.
August 4, 2009 From News
EDMONTON, August 4, 2009 — Serenic Corporation (TSX-V:SER), a leading publisher of financial management and business operations software for nonprofits, international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and the public sector, today proudly announced it won the 2009 Microsoft Dynamics Industry Solutions Vendor (ISV) of the Year for the United States at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2009 in New Orleans.
June 29, 2009 From News
EDMONTON, June 29, 2009 — Serenic Corporation (TSX-V:SER), ("Serenic" or the "Corporation"), a leading publisher of financial management and business operations software for nonprofits, international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and the public sector, announced today that Serenic Navigator has been selected by the Jewish Community Center (JCC) of Chicago, a nonprofit organization serving the greater-Chicago area Jewish community.
June 29, 2009 From
June 29, 2009, The Seattle Times — Microsoft veterans are launching two Seattle nonprofits aimed at encouraging a new generation of philanthropists by using mobile phones, social networking and online connections between donors and people in need....
June 25, 2009 From News
SEATTLE, June 25, 2009, Associated Press — U.S. foundations saw their investments drop by an average of 26 percent in 2008 amid the economic downturn and stock market collapse, but that hasn't slowed their charitable giving, a new survey has found.
June 24, 2009 From News
EDMONTON, June 24, 2009 — Today, Serenic Corporation, (TSX-V:SER), ("Serenic" or the "Corporation"), a leading publisher of financial management and business operations software for nonprofits, international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and the public sector, announced it has been selected as a 2009 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference Awards finalist in Microsoft Dynamics NAV.
