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Contributions to the nation's largest donor-advised fund program reached nearly $2.9 billion in 2011, up 81 percent from 2010, while Fidelity donors awarded more than 380,000 grants totaling $1.3 billion....

Chalk it up to the holiday spirit -- or just smart tax planning -- but charitable giving is looking up this month.

With ratings agency Moody's Investor Services saying it was considering a downgrade on the university's $1 billion in highly rated debt due to "reputational and financial risk," Penn State officials are urging alumni and donors not to turn their backs on

The grant will help the coalition generate more diverse and inclusive foundation leadership, strengthen the work of diverse donors, develop new policies and practices for foundations, and track philanthropy's progress with respect to diversity....

A new report from the Fundraising Effectiveness Project has found that while nonprofit organizations were able to acquire and keep donors in 2010, net giving levels continued to decline as a result of lost donors and smaller gifts....

The gift from longtime donors Charles E. Spahr (class of 1934) and his wife, Mary Jane ('38), will support the university's School of Engineering....

What donors can learn from the controversy surrounding the Central Asia Institute and the book "Three Cups of Tea."

Modeled after the Fund for Public Schools in New York City, the Los Angeles Fund for Public Education will give donors a say in how their contributions are used....

HIV/AIDS-related funding from U.S. and European donors totaled $738 million in 2009, a decline of 2 percent from $752 million the previous year....

The gift from retired Wall Street investor and self-professed atheist Robert Wilson will be used to help New York Catholic schools track down their alumni and recruit them as donors....