Health

Under a starry summer sky, The V Foundation Wine Celebration toasted 12 years of fundraising in the Napa Valley. This year's event raised more than $2.2 million for cancer research during the elegant evening, with a dedicated grant for Leukemia. Founders, including Mike 'Coach K' Krzyzewski and other friends of the late sportscaster and coach Jim Valvano have raised more than $100 million to support critical early research projects. Recognized for its prudent fiscal management, The V Foundation has earned a top four-star rating from Charity Navigator, America’s largest charity evaluator, for a seventh consecutive year. Only 2% of

Tweet “This is an outstanding performance in a very tough economic environment,” says Peter Storey, Director of Marketing at Kidney Research UK. “The growth in our online fundraising has contributed to our ability to release more funds for vital research projects.” Kidney Research UK uses a variety of online fundraising methods but the biggest increase in 2010 has come via their own branded integrated event registration and online fundraising pages. “A key part of our brand building strategy is helped by promoting own branded fundraising pages provided by AltaContact,” Storey advises. “71% of our online fundraising revenue is now

Leona Helmsley didn't leave everything to the dogs.

The trust that bears the name of the billionaire New York City hotel operator and real-estate investor will this week announce a $25 million grant to New York's Mount Sinai Medical Center to create the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust Cardiovascular Translational Research Center.

All Mail Direct Inc., a direct-mail, printing and fulfillment services provider, announced that it recently made a donation to the Stephen G. Shore Recovery Trust to support its efforts to help patients at the Connecticut Children's Medical Center through the music creative process.

As part of a new long-term alliance, Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) is gearing up for its next Team Fundraising Challenge by joining forces with one of television's most popular shows, Survivor on CBS. For the first time ever, Survivor will stand up and issue the "Challenge The Odds" Team Challenge with Stand Up To Cancer Ambassador and winner of Survivor: Africa, Ethan Zohn. Zohn, whose Hodgkin's lymphoma is in remission, appeared on CBS News's The Early Show this morning to announce the partnership and his new role as spokesperson for the Survivor team's SU2C fundraising efforts. CBS

The Applebee’s restaurant at 71 Plaza Parkway, Lexington, will host the Carolina Cancer Services Flapjack Fundraiser starting at 7 a.m. Tickets for the Flapjack Fundraiser are $7 and include a short stack of pancakes, sausage, milk, juice and coffee. Cancer Services is a nonprofit organization that assists patients with treatment costs and provides wigs, breast prosthetics and nutritional products to clients. Proceeds will benefit the club’s assistance program for patients battling cancer. “Applebee’s is proud to assist with fundraising for local nonprofits and help raise awareness for their organization,” said Michael Olander, president and CEO of the Apple Gold

A group of three Libertyville High School students have organized a fundraising concert to benefit the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Libertyville High School juniors Chris Lample and Matt Satchell and 2009 Libertyville High School graduate Trevor Seitz organized the concert as an outlet for local bands to perform, with the added benefit of fundraising for Team in Training, a fundraising campaign of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society that Lample's aunt Debbie Lample works for. The concert is scheduled from 1 p.m. until 4 p.m. Saturday (Aug. 14) at Libertyville's Butler Lake Park band shell, 810 Lake St. The show

When the Haiti earthquake hit back in January, the outcry and response were swift and plentiful. In this new era of the iPhone and other mobile devices, the biggest buzz in the fundraising sector was generated from the mobile-giving explosion following the disaster. But the biggest takeaway for fundraisers — all of them, not just disaster-relief organizations — is that donors have certain, higher expectations these days, and your organization must meet them.

The average FY2009 total return on investable assets for 85 nonprofit health care organizations participating in the 2010 Commonfund Benchmarks Study of Healthcare Organizations was 18.8 percent (net of fees), a dramatic improvement over the -21.2 percent return reported for FY2008. The FY2009 return was the highest in the eight years the study has been conducted and came in the year following the poorest return of the eight Studies.

My friend Denise is a loud, lovely, bawdy powerhouse of a woman. Every time I see her I think, "Everybody should have a little Denise in her heart." She has more love, passion and zest for life than one human body can contain, so of course it's always spilling out onto those around her.