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GP's Microfinance Fund 2008 will combine philanthropic giving with private capital, including investments totaling more than $18.5 million from forty-two individuals and groups....

The foundation has announced seven grants to researchers and advocates working on challenges such as improving youth settings, building capacity for researchers doing intervention studies, and using research in policy and practice....

Some 1.5 million deer-vehicle collisions kill several hundred people and cause more than $1 billion in damage annually. Can they be prevented?

The federal government issued another $976.5 million worth of economic stimulus checks to American households in October, the Treasury Department announced Friday.

At least 7.5 million American homeowners owe more on thier homes than they are currently worth, according to a report released Friday.

Federal tax returns of the Jon S. Corzine Foundation show it gave less in 2007 than in 2006 ($4.3 million) and 2005 ($3.8 million), the year Corzine was elected governor of the state....

The grant will support TreePeople's California Wildfire Restoration Initiative, which will mobilize thousands of volunteers to plant some 60,000 new trees over the next three years in the mountains surrounding the Los Angeles basin....

The foundation awarded $2.5 million through its youth program to ConnectEd: The California Center for College and Career to expand "multiple pathways programs" in up to eight high school districts....

More than 7.5 million homeowners spend at least half of their income on housing; 19 million are above 30%.

That's 53% of all homeowners with mortgages. No wonder Americans feel strained.

The Red Cross borrowed heavily to fund its $70 million relief effort in response to Hurricane Gustav, but in the wake of the storm's weaker-than-predicted impact the organization has raised less than $5 million toward its expenses....