The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood was issued an eviction notice by their parent organization, the Harvard-affiliated Judge Baker Children’s Center, soon after winning an out-of-court settlement in a class action suit against the Walt Disney Company.

In an op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal, a former advocate disowns her support of the nation’s 5,000 charter schools, despite the advent of President Obama, a liberal Democrat who is supporting charters with more vigor than Bush I, Clinton, or Bush II did in their administrations.

By any measure, $3 billion is a lot of money, and more so when it represents the largest single chunk of federal stimulus money that might be directed to a state in the form of reimbursements for patient services.

We've come a long way since the days of machine politics when redrawing electoral districts was a secretive act that rewarded the party in power. Still, the process is far from perfect.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s preliminary budget for the city of New York contains a bevy of budget cuts that dwarf those of many states.

Why were corporations and special interests pleased with the Supreme Court decision allowing them to spend money on electioneering ads?

NC Prevention Partners, with support from Pfizer, launched three-year employer wellness partnership with Greensboro Chamber of Commerce.

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Donny C. Lambeth, president, North Carolina Baptist Hospital of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, appointed to board of trustees, North Carolina Hospital Association.

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Mayo Clinic forming new permanent professorship to focus on finding new treatments and preventive measures to reduce incidence of cancer, funded with $2 million gift from The Vasek and Anna Maria Polak Charitable Foundation.

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Credit-card firm offers reward points for volunteering; billionaire philanthropists investing in India; and more.

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North Carolina nonprofits pay $60,000 in median salary to their chief executives and $40,673 in median cash compensation to all their employees, and lose staff at half the rate of U.S. industries, a new study says.

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The story of a never-married secretary who left $7-million in her will to her alma mater is still making the rounds -- in fact, Dianne Sawyer did a recent piece about it on ABC news called "Secret Donor."

Grace Groner had quietly amassed a fortune with a single investment: Back in 1935, she bought three shares of stock, each worth $60, in Abbott Laboratories where she worked; it grew to $7-million.

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More than three-quarters of consumers say that a marketing partnership between a charity and a company they trust makes a charitable cause stand out, according to a new survey commissioned by Cone, a Boston marketing firm.

More than half of the people in the survey -- 56 perscent -- said that such partnerships make them more likely to "feel positively" toward the nonprofit group. Half of the participants

Jenzabar Foundation and Campus Compact partnering to administer regional service conferences to promote civic engagement and inspire future generations to make positive difference.

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Coming Out -- Coming In: Faith, Identity and Belonging, 30-minute documentary developed by four members of 2003-05 class, William C. Friday Fellows, Wildacres Leadership Initiative, received Regional Emmy, best topical documentary, from Midsouth Chapter, The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

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The travel-planning website, Trekaroo.com, whose visitors share information about child-friendly hotels, resorts, activities and travel packages, has a new addition to its itinerary. Images from the U.S. Postal Service “Greetings From America” stamp series now provide a colorful enhancement to the site’s My Passport feature.

NewBridge Bank allocated total of $13,374 for eight high schools in Davidson and Guilford counties from proceeds of bank’s 2009 Christmas Classic Basketball Tournament to purchase athletic equipment.

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A New York charity is experimenting with new technologies to raise awareness about the problem of homelessness -- and hopefully reach out to new donors.

Three evenings last week, Pathways to Housing projected the image of a homeless man sleeping on the sidewalk and shivering in the cold in downtown Manhattan. Words also projected onto the side of a building asks passersby to send a text message to help get him off the

Century 21 Real Estate has named MRM Worldwide its agency of record for national and digital marketing and Mullen as its agency of record for social media and PR. Both are Interpublic Group agencies. Mullen is the real estate company's first social media AOR.

Charity Dynamics says 50 nonprofits using its Boundless Fundraising social-networking application raised over $15 million since start of 2009.

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