Nonprofits

The Amazing Raise, an annual 36-hour online giving challenge, raked in more than $1.74 million in donations for local nonprofits this week, almost $200,000 more than last year.

Each month, NASCAR fans have the chance to take their own cars out onto the Richmond International Raceway for a donation to RIR’s charity foundation.

Local employees of one of Richmond’s biggest corporate givers donated a total of $2.45 million in grants to 88 local nonprofits on Tuesday.

The VMFA has budgeted nearly $2M to put on its newest exhibit, which includes shipping 200 works of art on multiple flights because the collection is too valuable to send together.

The 100-acre estate that costs $13,000 a day to maintain is in the middle of its largest capital campaign since the ’90s. The money will be used for improvements, endowments and the relocation of the Maymont Foundation headquarters.

Capital campaigns are transforming several of the city’s museums with long-delayed renovations and construction projects totaling about $80 million.

A local nonprofit that operates a former downtown hotel as a hospital guest house has hired a local marketing agency to revive its brand.

An update to state law has widened the pool of tax-delinquent properties that the city can sell to nonprofits. The change has organizations like Habitat for Humanity eyeing some of the hundreds of new properties for potential use in low-income housing projects.

First the hammers, backhoes and hardhats, and then the art, theater and music. Institute for Contemporary Art slated for completion in 2016.

Virginia Commonwealth University’s art department is pulling into a former West Broad Street trolley station.