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Byline: Mike KennedyA San Diego businessman has donated more than $1 million to help those who attend or work at Paradise High School in Paradise, Calif., recover from the wildfire [...]

New revelations about Chinese political donations set hands wringing WHEN Malcolm Turnbull, Australia's prime minister, urged China earlier this month to respect 'the sovereignty of others', many took it as [...]

The National Gallery of Canada reported that 197 paintings, sculptures, and mixed-media pieces made by established Canadian and international artists have been donated to the gallery. According to a media [...]

A profile of 24 prominent personalities who have helped build the region with their vision, leadership and organization is presented.

Looking at the spare, modern majesty of the new Museum of Latin American Art in Buenos Aires (Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires--MALBA), it is hard to imagine that [...]

MICHAEL BLOOMBERG'S $1.8-billion donation to the Johns Hopkins University will cover the costs of thousands of scholarships there. Many observers have praised the donation as a path-breaking act of philanthropy [...]

The dust had hardly settled when the backlash poured in. Last week Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire and former New York City mayor, announced he would give $1.8 billion to the [...]

Byline: Caroline Bermudez How much: $50-million pledge Who got it: Swarthmore College, in Pa. Who gave it: Eugene Lang, founder of the patenting firm Refac Technology Development, in New York [...]

Multi-billionaire casino magnate Sheldon Adelson is giving $5 million to a pro-Newt Gingrich political action group dedicated to taking down frontrunner Mitt Romney, in a surprising maneuver that could complicate [...]

Sowing the seeds of good schools in the Mid-west EVERY weekday, 300 boys gather in a gym on Chicago's South Side. They are all black. More than 80% are poor. [...]

The stakes just got much higher in Communist China's (PRC) investment strategy to penetrate and control key areas of the U.S. economy and the U.S. political landscape. This past week, [...]

Even the most evolved men sometimes have a hard time dealing with their wives' success. Take Sidney Harman, the electronics tycoon who's married to Rep. Jane Harman, a seven-term democrat [...]

Mike Lazaridis, co-founder of the firm behind the BlackBerry, is a passionate advocate of fundamental scientific research SOME pocket-sized electronic gadgets are merely successful, but an exalted few become household [...]

When businessman Dave Hendrickson acquired Quail Hollow Golf Course in 1993, golf was primed to boom in Boise. 'When I got into this business, the community was poised for rapid [...]

California Institute of Technology in Pasadena has been given the largest single gift to one institution in the history of American higher education -- $600 million. The donor is a [...]

In an interview with Providence Business News in March of this year, Luther H. Blount, 85, described semi-retirement as being able to come into work a little bit later on [...]

A conference sponsored by the Association of Business and Industry Foundation is connecting business and education for the benefit of students. New Hampton third-grader Jimmy Jones is making a $10 [...]

Brain gain The experts say Canada's young academic stars are leaving Canada for greener pastures down south. But American Chad Friesen is bucking the trend to work at Langley's Trinity [...]

Here in the coffee-clad hills of southern Nicaragua, pizza magnate Thomas Monaghan of Ann Arbor, Mich., has acquired a second-hand college as part of his campaign to spread conservative Catholic [...]

How W.'s corporate pals in Texas helped make him the best-financed presidential candidate in history. IF A TEXAN BECOMES THE NEXT PRESIdent in January, a number of Texas corporate executives […]

Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen has donated $20 million to the Seattle Public Library, earmarking $15 million for books and other materials and $5 million to go toward building a children's [...]

James Rogers, owner of Sunbelt Communications, never expected that a visit to his alma mater would lead to a distinguished career in philanthropy. But after an initial contribution in 1989 [...]

Stanford University has received its largest cash donation from an individual in its history --$400 million from Philip H. Knight, the Nike co-founder. The gift will be part of a [...]

Jim Justice chooses to support Scouting today based on his memories of yesterday--his youthful experiences as a Boy Scout. 'I keep going back to the foundations,' he says. Although his [...]

Nova Southeastern University realigned undergraduate and graduate degree programs to create a College of Natural Sciences and Oceanography named for the Halmos family. Businessman and Nova board of trustees member [...]

Former congressman Scott McInnis is leading the battle for business campaign contributions among Colorado's three candidates for governor with $89,719 as of the third quarter of 2009. The donations make up 16.5% of the funds raised for McInnis's candidacy, totaling $544,779.