Nonprofits

The local United Way has finished its search for a new top exec, pulling in the longtime leader of an Indiana chapter who will start next month.

VCU Medical Center stepped away from a local blood services provider in favor of the national organization, another big hit for the local nonprofit in the last few years.

After a successful crowdfunding campaign helped it hold onto its Strawberry Street home, one of the few video rental shops left standing will live on as a nonprofit organization.

Goodwill is well on its way to finishing a $3.5 million capital raise that will fund the expansion of its Southside employment center, which provides skills training and job search help.

An upstart nonprofit has spawned its first crop of startups after graduating five companies from its inaugural year-long training program for low-income entrepreneurs looking to start their own businesses.

Closing out its fundraiser five months ahead of schedule, the Richmond Symphony plans to use the funds to buy a large mobile tent it will use to take its show on the road.

Quietly chipping away at a $7 million fundraising goal, a local Boy Scouts council has scooped up land for a massive facility complete with a Pinewood Derby track.

The nonprofit has nearly reached its $11 million fundraising goal, and the money is going to a new veterinary hospital aimed at low-income pet owners.

Beating its fundraising goal in less than six months, a private elementary school for students from low-income families will soon start major repairs to its 114-year-old building.

In an unusual move to support nonprofits, a local IT firm has given two organizations a major gift: complete ownership of its company.