Prominent Richmonders gave almost $30 million to nonprofits and other organizations last year, according to the Generous Virginians Project, an annual report recently released by Virginia Business magazine. The magazine contacted 260 companies, 100 families and more than 225 nonprofit organizations to provide their top 15 donations of at least $25,000 since January 2010. The… Read more »
Nonprofits
Richmond nonprofits lose exemptions
The IRS this month revoked hundreds of Richmond nonprofits’ tax-exempt status.
Nonprofit’s premiere gets some star power
One of the biggest names in business is coming to Richmond to support a brand-new nonprofit.
Renovating ruins
Two Petersburg nonprofits just finished the first phase of turning a historic indoor marketplace and Civil War prison into a modern tourist attraction.
It pays to make a business plan
New Visions New Ventures honored 16 budding entrepreneurs Thursday for completing a business plan.
Picasso adds his flourish to the bottom line
More than a quarter-million people came through the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts to see a rare collection of Pablo Picasso works, and local businesses reaped the benefits.
To Short Pump and back?
The owner of the popular To the Bottom and Back, Inc. (2BNB) bus service in Richmond is considering expanding his service into Short Pump.
A common good
Local nonprofit gets a boost from Genworth’s employee volunteer program as it builds a new website.
A moniker 5 years in the making
A local nonprofit has merged with a Missouri organization, acquired a new name and added a second U.S. office.
A new growing season is here
The dust has finally settled in the skirmish between a Goochland farming nonprofit and its former executive director. Turns out there were no accounting shenanigans going on. Nevertheless, Goochland will now have two farmers markets.