International non-governmental organization The Nature Conservancy announced today that its has cancelled Nature Reserves of China, Through the Viewfinder photo contest award ceremony to donate all event funds to the earthquake relief efforts in Sichuan province. This high profile photography contest, which was due to take place on May 21 at the Forbidden City Concert Hall, was set to promote China's nature reserve systems.

Due to its immense launch success, with thousands of technologies available for licensing listed on this portal in record time from some of the most prestigious research groups in the world, TechTransferOnline.com announces today that it made the strategic decision to make its site free of charge to all nonprofit (tax-exempt) organizations that wish to list their IP on its website.

Defenders of Wildlife today welcomed the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service decision to list the polar bear as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. This move officially recognizes that polar bears are threatened with extinction from global warming, which is melting the Arctic sea ice where polar bears hunt for ringed and bearded seals, their primary food source. Defenders cautioned, however, that the Bush administration continues to be unwilling to address global warming, which is the leading threat to the polar bear.

As the Asia region reels from two massive disasters, Christian aid agency World Vision is on the ground, providing emergency aid to survivors of both the Myanmar cyclone and China earthquake.

Alan Wilson of Templeton Construction didn't like the idea of destroying new shoes. So when he was tasked with taking shoes out of the tornado-wrecked R.G. Barry Corporation distribution center to the city dump, he became the first in a series of heroes to help bring 180,000 pairs of Shoes for Orphan Souls to needy children.

Mercy Corps is working on the ground in Sichuan Province to support the earthquake response efforts of its strategic partner the China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation. The agency has deployed two Beijing-based staff to Chengdu, a city about 100 km from the earthquake's epicenter in the eastern part of Sichuan, to assess needs and determine next steps with CFPA and other potential partners.

A significant number of CEOs at midsize nonprofits are dissatisfied with the performance of their boards, particularly in regard to fundraising and the way boards monitor their own performance, a new report from the Urban Institute finds.

The Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance today announced the launch of Engage 2020, a $6,300,000 research and marketing initiative with the goal of doubling cultural participation in Greater Philadelphia by 2020. Engage 2020 is funded by a $5,000,000 four-year lead grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts, with additional support by The Wallace Foundation and The Philadelphia Foundation.

Donors across all generations tend to give roughly the same amount to philanthropic causes, when controlling for other factors such as income, education and frequency of attendance at religious services, according to a report by the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University in a study funded by Campbell & Company.

Lutheran World Relief today pledged $50,000 to support the response of the global aid alliance Action by Churches Together (ACT) International in the aftermath of the devastating cyclone that struck Myanmar on May 3.