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Susan Carey Dempsey.When Ted Turner made an historic announcement of a billion dollar pledge to the United Nations a decade ago, he wished out loud that lists of most generous donors would become as competitive as lists of the World's Richest. While there's some understandable…

13 Jul 2008 Original Source By Tanika White, Sun reporter After four years of medical school and three years of internal medicine training, Jessica Colburn could have chosen just about any field of medicine to practice. Gastroenterology would have been lucrative, brain surgery exciting. At…

The Philadelphia Foundation was one of the last places Nancy Burd thought she would work. As head of the Philadelphia office of the Nonprofit Finance Fund, a foundation grantee, she knew firsthand that it did not have a good reputation. But during the interview process…