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"The hardest thing is coming up with the title of my major," Trawick, 19, told Ruth De Jesus, associate dean of intercultural advancement at Gettysburg College.

A mother and her pups awaits her flight. Volunteers at Van Nuys airport loaded over 400 animals onto 14 private planes so that they could go to new homes all over the Pacific Northwest.

Last December, a special fundraising effort was just the push that the Boulder Jewish Community Center needed to complete a campaign to construct a new building.

The Nature Conservancy in Washington is trying to buy and preserve three miles of private land along the Queets River on the Olympic Peninsula.

T. Lulani Arquette believes that the original, nature-based values of Native American peoples still have a lot to teach a Western culture that she said is teetering on the edge of suicide.

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LOTTERY funding for the Winchester Citizens Advice Bureau means that they have become the leading partner in a new project targeting those in need.

GlobeMed staff and Erich Lehman owner of 1975 Gallery at GlobeMed's 1st Annual Art Gala.

From the time Nevada's namesake battleship, the USS Nevada, was launched in 1914, it has held a special place in the hearts of the state's residents.

The closure Wednesday is the first of an advocacy group by Correa's government, which has been criticized as hostile to free expression and has broadened state authority over nonprofits by decree this year.

Southwest Portland residents opposed to the sale of Water Bureau property to a developer are raising funds to hire an attorney.

The annual Holiday Express rides are underway again, thanks to the efforts of hundreds of volunteer train buffs.

Phil Collins, the former Genesis drummer whose earnest ballads made him a star in the 1980s, is penning songs again.

WGN Radio and its sister media - WGN and Chicago Tribune - raised some $800,000 for tornado relief for the Nov. 17 tornadoes.

The Sun Herald reports that the secretary of state's charity division found Gai Kaitlin Truong used the nonprofit's money to pay workers at her private, for-profit business and failed to justify at least part of her own nonprofit salary of $61,100 for 2012.

President Barack Obama prodded Congress to raise wages and secure the social safety as he issued an overarching appeal Wednesday to correct inequalities that he said make it harder for a child in the United States to escape poverty.

The British musician announced Wednesday in Miami Beach that his nonprofit will help South Florida children with artistic and athletic dreams to fulfill their potential.

An exhibit of photos taken by University of South Carolina students during a working visit to Africa is opening in Columbia.

The effort to get high-speed broadband in every school is getting a boost from the philanthropy of two technology gurus - Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg and Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates.

Marc Paulhus, program director of Pawsitive Service Dog Solutions, holds a chocolate lab puppy named Bosco, who is being trained to work with autistic children.