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Math mistake sees hundreds of teachers laid off

The Dallas, Texas, school district laid off hundreds of teachers Thursday to avoid a projected $84 million deficit.

Fortune: The only nonprofit that matters

Peter Mukasa needs $250 to buy some hooch. Care to help a guy who's down on his luck if he promises to pay it back? Oops, too late. Mukasa, the owner of a closet-sized liquor store in the Ugandan village of Makindye, posted his funding request on Kiva.org one afternoon in mid-November. Within hours, ten lenders ponied up $25 each to help the man stock his shelves. Case open, case closed.

Fortune: The corporate baker

In the early 1990s, as an account manager for A.C. Nielsen, Vandegrift used to give presentations to consumer goods companies on how their products were selling. On a whim, she hired a baker friend...

Fortune: Bill Gates: The way we give

This essay is adapted from a speech that Microsoft chairman Bill Gates delivered recently at the Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose. Gates received that museum's James C. Morgan Global Humanitarian Award for his philanthropic work through the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation.

Business 2.0: Partnership with the community: the power of corporate citizenship

Nowhere has thinking about strategic partnerships been turned on its head more dramatically than in the area of corporate citizenship.

Money Magazine: Give to charity but don't go broke doing it

Recently I had coffee with a friend who was venting. This was normal - what are friends and grande skim lattes for?

Still charitable?

Charities are anxious this holiday season. After an extraordinary year that began with a catastrophic tsunami followed by hurricanes Katrina and Wilma and ended with an earthquake in South Asia that killed thousands, charities worry that donors may not have much left to give.

Clooney, O'Reilly spar over tsunami telethon

Three years after jousting over a celebrity telethon that raised millions for 9/11 victims, Fox News' Bill O'Reilly and actor George Clooney are at it again, this time over what will happen to funds pledged in a telethon for tsunami victims.

Are office collections robbing you?

Last week you turned in your pledge card for your company's United Way campaign, promising to donate 1 percent of your salary to the organization.

CNNMoney: Making your generosity pay

For Michael and Martha Hogan, giving to charity is not just a tradition -- it's a passion. The St. Louis couple, both 51, donate regularly to some two dozen nonprofits, ranging from major groups like the United Way and the National Kidney Foundation to the lesser-known Small World Adoption Foundation, which helped them adopt the youngest of their four children.

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