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A new initiative calls on colleges and universities to ask and answer the question, “Are students learning?” at their institutions.

It’s a question that employers ask about college graduates all the time.

With the help of 817 foundations and 10,000 individuals, families, and businesses countrywide, 499 Central Ohio nonprofits received gift totals of up to $381,900 during the region's first one-day philanthropic giving initiative on November 10....

The largest grant ever awarded by the foundation will be used to scale Water.org's WaterCredit microloan initiative in India to some 800,000 people....

Treasury officials and hedge fund managers meet to discuss a new initiative for Wall Street to help finance big public works.

The five-year Saving Lives at Birth initiative will support groundbreaking and sustainable projects with the potential to reduce the number of newborn and maternal deaths in the hardest to reach areas of the world....

Through the Fighting Hunger Together initiative, Walmart and the Walmart Foundation will donate more than 1.1 billion pounds of food valued at $1.75 billion and award $250 million in grants to hunger relief organizations across the country....

A modest initiative for struggling homeowners, when high wine prices are justified and other consumer-focused items from Friday's Times.

The communities will receive four-year grants of up to $360,000 each as part of an initiative that supports efforts to improve access to affordable, healthy foods and opportunities for physical activity for children and families....

Awarded as part of Knight's $15 million investigative reporting initiative, the grant will support the production and broad distribution of independent multimedia journalism supported by the fund....

All but one of the world's regions have achieved, ahead of schedule, the United Nations' goal to reduce measles deaths by 90 percent between 2000 and 2010....