Adventist Development and Relief Agency, Irvine, Calif., saw donations increase 273 percent in reaction to Myanmar, China disasters.
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- March 8, 2010Citing tough economic times, board of Metro Phoenix Partnership for Arts and Culture voted to cease nonprofit's staffing and programmatic operations; MPAC will use remaining grants funds to directly assist arts and culture organizations.
- March 8, 2010University of British Columbia selected Blackbaud Enterprise CRM as its organization-wide relationship-management system
- March 8, 2010Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors formed alliance with Godeke Consulting to provide expertise on mission-related and impact investing.
- March 8, 2010Aravind Eye Care System, which performs 300,000 eye surgeries a year - 70 percent subsidized or free for the poor - to receive 2010 Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize of $1.5 million.
- March 5, 2010Brendan Kinney, former associate vice president of institutional advancement and executive director of marketing and public relations. SUNY Plattsburgh, named vice president for development and marketing, Vermont Public Radio.
- March 4, 2010Jorge A. Castro, interim president, AFS-USA, New York City, named president.
- March 4, 2010Feeding America selected Merkle's Response Management Group to manage processing nearly half-million responses the nonprofit's direct-mail fundraising program generates each year.
- March 3, 2010GuideStar International transferring its GuideStar UK assets, including GuideStar Data Services, CIC and free website, www.guidestar.org.uk, to Directory of Social Change.
- March 3, 2010HP ranked No. 1 on Corporate Responsibility Magazine's 11th annual 100 Best Corporate Citizens List.
- March 2, 2010Marley Klaus, former producer and writer for CBS News' 60 Minutes and former executive producer for California Connected, named director of communications and media, The California Endowment.
- March 2, 2010The Power of Social Innovation: How Civic Entrepreneurs Ignite Community Networks for Good, by Stephen Goldsmith with Gigi Georges and Tim Glynn Burke, to be published in April by Jossey-Bass.
- March 2, 2010Year Up, which provides career training to low-income young adults and helps them secure corporate internships, named a winner, Opportunity Knocks' 3rd Annual Peoples Choice Best Nonprofit to Work For Awards.
- March 2, 2010Laura S. Washington,columnist, Chicago Sun-Times, named president, The Woods Fund of Chicago.
- March 2, 2010Local Initiatives Support Corporation invested $607 million in 2009 to help transform distressed neighborhoods into good places to live, work, do business and raise families.
- March 1, 2010Kevin Dwyer, corporate director of development, North Shore-LIJ Health System, Great Neck, N.Y., promoted to senior vice president and chief development officer.
