grants

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....

This year, the Massachusetts-based foundation awarded grants in support of efforts to provide youth with the skills and resources needed to become responsible and caring citizens....

Grants were awarded to nonprofits working to improve their respective communities, such as by providing food, clothing, energy and housing assistance, and job training and skills development....

Awarded through the foundation's medical research program, the three-year grants seek to develop new therapies and/or increase understanding of how to treat the debilitating symptoms that accompany sickle cell disease....

On Monday, the first "day of giving" in the campaign, the giant retailer announced grants of $5,000 each to twenty-five hunger relief organizations chosen from a pool of more than 5,400 nominations submitted by Facebook users....

As in previous rounds, Facebook users will help determine the nonprofit organizations that will share more than $3 million in grants from Chase by casting their votes through the bank's Community Giving application....

The grants were awarded as part of BSCA's commitment to limit its annual net income to 2 percent of revenue and to return the difference collected above that amount to its customers and the community....

Earlier this year, the foundation awarded nearly $2.25 million in grants to support eighteen projects across the country through its Fisheries Innovation Fund, which works to promote the implementation of sustainable fisheries....

Third-quarter grants were awarded to nonprofits working to enhance educational opportunities for youth and provide services to the homeless and disadvantaged in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming....

Grants were awarded to forty-four organizations in the United States and around the world working to advance programs in the areas of education, fitness and nutrition, recycling, and access to clean water....