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Taking time, 10 or 12 hours, to tackle ever-postponed money tasks and clear the books can be lucrative.

Philanthropy is not only for the wealthy. You can bring children into the fold by letting them figure out how they would like to contribute.

A dieter’s commitment to weight loss can sometimes be linked to how much money he or she is willing to spend.

The gift from the Broad Foundation is the first installment of Eli and Edythe Broad's $400 million pledge to build the endowment of the genomic medicine institute, which has grown to more than a thousand scientists in only five years....

Led by a new generation of family members, the Meyerhoff Family Charitable Funds has shifted its grantmaking focus from U.S. cultural institutions and high-profile causes in Israel to supporting middle-class families in Baltimore....

Made through MJFF's Rapid Response Innovation Awards program, the grants will support research based on little or no existing preliminary data but which has the potential to open entirely new ways of understanding or treating Parkinson's disease....

According to a University of California San Diego Extension survey, high school and college students are more likely to have considered taking a so-called "volunteer vacation" than working adults and retirees....

For this Independence Day, here are words of financial wisdom -- to and from some of the Americans portrayed on US currency.

Despite emergency stimulus measures, small business lending continues to fall. In the just-ended quarter, the Small Business Administration's flagship program backed 30% fewer loans than it did a year ago, and 55% fewer loans than it did in 2007, before the recession set in.

It is one of the touchiest issues in the health care debate: Would a government-run health plan upend the employer-based health insurance system used by 160 million Americans?