In the new corporate style advertising, American Express is using the Oscars to launch TakePart, its new effort in philanthropy.

Nonprofit news from around the country and the world. Today, a Children’s Zone by any other name, Philanthropy 3.0, profitable publishing and more.

The traditional way of landing federal grants—municipal officials lobbying their federal counterparts—is going to be tried with the Promise Neighborhoods program emerging from the Department of Education.

What happens when the next generation of philanthropists take over? Will the same groups be funded and to the same degree or will their interests be different than their parents or grandparents?

Thanks to the power of the internet to make new bedfellows, a partnership between an online news site and fundraiser is providing new revenue opportunities for nonprofits as well as the publisher and its for-profit partner.

When we learned earlier this year that European governments were keen to purge their budgets of arts organizations—or, at least considerably scale back their support—it was clear that the move would not be a popular one.

When it comes to giving back, Brian Jones is “extremely” generous, frequently going to painful lengths to raise money for aid groups—including scaling Mount Kilimanjaro, walking across the Sahara Desert and skiing to the North Pole.

If findings of a survey of New York’s nonprofit community prove correct, local charities soon will be breaking out in a chorus of “Happy Days Are Here Again.”

To help potential employees learn how to implement social responsibility and sustainability programs, some companies are working with business schools to provide training to help them develop the requisite skills.

Nonprofit news from around the country and the world. Today, not all good deeds turn out so, nonprofits subsidize public education, free paintings and more.

If you think doing good is an end unto itself, do yourself a favor and read a fascinating Wall Street Journal article appropriately titled, “When Good Deeds Turn Bad.”

In most states and localities, K-12 education funding is being whacked by rolling budget cuts, only partially allayed by Department of Education stimulus dollars.