International Youth Foundation Announces Winners of 2008 Starbucks Social Entrepreneurs Fund (PR Newswire via Yahoo! News)

25 young social entrepreneurs around the globe receive grants

Winners of 2008 Starbucks Social Entrepreneurs Fund (PNN)

An organization in the Philippines that provides microfinance loans to unemployed youth to start their own businesses and a program in Pakistan that combats violence against women and girls by changing the behaviors of men are two of 25 programs in 17 countries recently recognized for the young social entrepreneur leading their cause.

M. D. Anderson's Margaret Spitz Honored by Greater Houston Women's Chamber of Commerce (Newswise)

Margaret Spitz, M.D., professor and former chair of at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, is one of eight distinguished inductees into the inaugural Greater Houston Women's Chamber of Commerce (GHWCC) Hall of Fame.

J-Lab Announces Funding for Community News Web Sites (Newswise)

J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism, a center of American University's School of Communication, is calling for a new round of grant proposals to fund New Voices community news start-ups around the country. Eight projects will each receive up to $25,000 in grants during the course of two years. The deadline for this year's proposals is Thursday, February 12, 2009. Eligibility ...

Lincoln Financial Foundation grants (Fort Wayne Journal Gazette)

Lincoln Financial Foundation's $49,000 education grant will pay for dozens of short videos designed to familiarize students in Ivy Tech Community College Northeast's School of Health Sciences with basic medical techniques before they try them on patients.