- Professional Area: Marketing/communications
- Field of Interest: Arts/culture
- November 25, 200858th annual Stritch Awards Dinner raised over $900,000 for scholarships for students at Loyola University Chicago's Stritch School of Medicine.
- November 25, 2008Human Rights Campaign Foundation launched campaign to promote adoption by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender parents; information online.
- November 25, 2008UBS Wealth Management and National Philanthropic Trust partner to launch UBS Donor Advised Fund to allow UBS Wealth Management clients to recommend future grants.
- November 25, 2008USA Gymnastics club members raised total of $201,203 for Children's Miracle Network through National Gymnastics Day, Tyson Fitness Challenge events.
- November 25, 2008Richard Krugman, pediatrician, named chair of national advisory committee, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program; five new committee members also named.
- November 25, 2008AMC Institute released second issue of nonprofit management guide, "What to Consider When Partnering with an AMC."
- November 25, 2008Better Business Bureau Wise Giving Alliance published Holiday Wise Giving Guide; request copies online.
- November 25, 2008Steve MacLaughlin, director of Internet solutions, Blackbaud, named to board, Nonprofit Technology Network.
- November 25, 2008Bubel/Aiken Foundation's Champions of Change gala raised over $500,000 to benefit organizations and individuals helping children with disabilities.
- November 25, 2008AOL launched Nice One! website to share giving stories, promote St. Jude Children's Research Hospital's Thanks and Giving campaign.
- November 25, 2008Legacy Financial Advisors Second Annual Codger Cup Golf Tournament raised $12,000 for two spinal-injury nonprofits, demonstrated ParaMobile system to help paraplegics play golf.
- November 25, 2008R. Paul Robertson, former president and scientific director, Pacific Northwest Diabetes Research Institute, named president, medicine and science, American Diabetes Association.
- November 25, 2008Sponsored by Sterling Stamos Capital Management, Menlo Park, Calif., Friends Without a Border opened location in Siem Reap, Cambodia, to promote green building, energy.
- November 25, 2008Yum! Brands World Hunger Relief campaign raised $17.5M for U.N. World Food Programme, other hunger relief agencies; 5M volunteer hours contributed by employees.
- November 25, 2008Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute's FDR Four Freedoms Park launched Freedom Tree Campaign to get sponsors for purchase and care of trees in the park; information online.