As part of its mission to speed delivery of transformative treatments and a cure for Parkinson's disease, The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research has awarded $2.7 million in total funding to six industry research teams.

Bailey House, a non-profit organization serving the HIV/AIDS community, today announced it completed the roll-out of a comprehensive, new technology infrastructure at its New York City headquarters. As the grand prize winner in the regional “Xtreme Techover” contest, Bailey House won approximately $500,000 in technology services, software and hardware donated by Avanade, Microsoft, NetApp and NPower NY. Immediately following the deployment, Bailey House used the new business software, technology labs and training and support resources to launch a Web design agency, staffed by its clients, called Impact Design.

The Northwestern Mutual Foundation announced today that they are donating $265,000 to 25 non-profit organizations across the U.S. through its national Community Service Award program. The annual competition, open to more than 9,000 representatives of the Northwestern Mutual Financial Network, recognizes exemplary volunteer involvement and dedication to charitable organizations and philanthropic projects.

The stars are out in Hollywood again, this time to raise public awareness of the connection between dietary choices and the dual crises of food shortages and runaway global warming. Climate experts, animal protection advocates, Hollywood producers and interfaith groups will join together in a one-day event to bring the message to the world.

After the 2007 shootings at Virginia Tech University, schools across the country spent tens of millions of dollars to bolster campus security. There have been 137 murders on college campuses in the past eight years and on-campus murders represent less than 1 percent of homicides nationally.

The Hoople Group co-founders, Peter Kaufman and Heidi Workman, issued a challenge to all Virginia-based marketing firms yesterday. "After reading a story in the Richmond Times-Dispatch this morning about the dire need for more funds, we decided to do something. We would like every ad agency, public relations firm, web developer and freelancer to take action. Bring a $100 check to a nonprofit that needs help -- today."

The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation has applied to the City of Williamsburg to allow reconstruction of Richard Charlton’s Coffeehouse on its original foundations to recreate the 1765 hotbed of political, business and social activity adjacent to the colonial Capitol. The project is one of the most important reconstructions on the Historic Area’s Duke of Gloucester St. in half a century and is made possible by a generous $5 million gift from Mr. and Mrs. Forrest E. Mars Jr. of Big Horn, Wyo.

As organized youth baseball and softball wind down for the summer, the Postal Service is suggesting that parents and youngsters who play ball not retire their used gear but ship it instead to "Pitch In For Baseball" a non-profit organization that collects "gently used" equipment and distributes it to children in need.

To reset the way Americans think about the energy future and the climate crisis, former Vice President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore issued a bold challenge Thursday: that 100 percent of U.S. electricity production come from sources with zero carbon emissions within 10 years.