Narrowing The Gap

College Board studying 8th grade SAT
You're never too young to get an ulcer. The College Board is planning to roll out a new college assessment exam for eighth graders in 2010....

Regional Foundations Collaborate to Close Gap on Nationwide Nurs...
The ten grants awarded as part of the Partners Investing in Nursing's Future initiative will support the involvement of eighteen local foundations...

EPA rejects ethanol waver for Texas
The Environmental Protection Agency denied Texas's request for a reduction in a federal ethanol mandate. Who gains and who loses from the decision?...

Firms struggle to extract oil from shale
The largest untapped oil source, enough to sustain U.S. demand for a century, may be right here at home in the Rocky Mountains. But first, we have to...

'Philanthropic Divide' Between States Widens, Report Finds
According to a new report from the Big Sky Institute for the Advancement of Nonprofits, the gap between the states with the most foundation assets...