Broad Institute Receives $100 Million for Endowment
The gift from the Broad Foundation is the first installment of Eli and Edythe Broad's $400 million pledge to build the endowment of the genomic medicine institute, which has grown to more than a thousand scientists in only five years....
Meyerhoff Family Philanthropy Shifts Grantmaking Focus to Struggling Middle Class
Led by a new generation of family members, the Meyerhoff Family Charitable Funds has shifted its grantmaking focus from U.S. cultural institutions and high-profile causes in Israel to supporting middle-class families in Baltimore....
Michael J. Fox Foundation Awards $1 Million to Accelerate Parkinson's Research
Made through MJFF's Rapid Response Innovation Awards program, the grants will support research based on little or no existing preliminary data but which has the potential to open entirely new ways of understanding or treating Parkinson's disease....
Young Americans Interested in 'Voluntourism,' Survey Finds
According to a University of California San Diego Extension survey, high school and college students are more likely to have considered taking a so-called "volunteer vacation" than working adults and retirees....
Zaman, a program officer at Global Giving, discusses why it's important reduce the obsta- cles facing Muslim American donors wishing to honor their religious obligation to charitable giving....
PND spoke with Chen about the roles of technology and assessment in student learning as well as the future of the U.S. education system.... 
YMF works to pre-
An initiative of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, Changemakers is a global online platform that connects volunteers with social innovators through open source competitions....
FC SVP Larry McGill looks at the nature of data and its uses; Kaye Pyle reports from the annual Robert Fla- herty film seminar; and Susan Herr dramatizes four scenarios for the future of journalism....
