Items relevant to more than one category may appear more than once in this summary. From the issue dated April 19, 2007 About Grant Makers FOOD GROWN LOCALLY has captured the imagination of grant makers who see its benefits for the economy, the environment, and the health of the citizenry. ACTING TOGETHER on the issue of local food, foundations and charities find they can advance a host of other causes they care about, from promoting nutrition to controlling suburban sprawl. WHITE DOG COMMUNITY ENTERPRISES is one of a growing number of nonprofit groups working to link businesses that sell food and consumers who buy it with the local farmers who produce it. THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION has promised $500-million to combat obesity among children, but it is not the only grant maker that has joined the battle. THE HISTORY OF PHILANTHROPY is studded with examples of money commited to a single cause that, in today's dollars, match the generosity of the Johnson Foundation's pledge to fight obesity. EFFORTS TO HALT GLOBAL WARMING got a lift with the announcement that the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation would devote $100-million over the next five years to the cause. LOANS AND INVESTMENTS are increasingly popular vehicles for achieving foundations' social goals. GRANT MAKERS gave more than $40-billion last year, 8.2-percent more than the year before, according to estimates from the Foundation Center. RECENT GRANTS by foundations, corporations, and other grant makers. SUMMARIES OF ANNUAL REPORTS from the Community Foundation for the National Capital Region, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the William Penn Foundation. NEW GRANT PROGRAMS: A look at recently announced grant-making programs About Fund Raising A CONSULTANT can be invaluable in helping a charity raise money, reorganize, or plan for the future, but a bad marriage with one can hurt. It can also be avoided. UPDATE ON CAMPAIGNS for endowments, capital improvements, and other needs. INTEREST RATES for planned gifts, issued by the Internal Revenue Service. About Managing Nonprofit Groups UNDER A NEW PRESIDENT, Goodwill Industries of San Francisco, San Mateo, and Marin Counties has come back from years of trouble and is now widely recognized for its innovative job-training and leadership programs. INDEPENDENT SECTOR has written to two Congressional subcommittees complaining that the Internal Revenue Service does not have the money to adequately oversee tax-exempt organizations (Tax Watch). THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT is suing the leader of a New York charity, charging that he has promoted a tax-fraud scheme that cost the U.S. Treasury $21-million (Tax Watch). A KEY REPUBLICAN SENATOR has asked the Government Accountability Office to look into how much charity care nonprofit hospitals provide (Tax Watch). TAX WRITE-OFFS: The IRS has released a new form for small charities; Rhode Island has passed a law to help the state's charities avoid losing gifts from "snowbirds" who leave the state in the winter; and a New Hampshire artist colony faces a new challenge to its tax-exempt status. SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURS at Oxford University for the Skoll World Forum pondered the need for more money to propel their nascent enterprises, and discussed how and where to get it. NONPROFIT TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE participants took up issues such as "network neutrality" and the use of online video to help charities raise money and promote their causes. A FORMER POLICE CHIEF in Concord, N.H., heads a local charity that works to ameliorate the same social problems he used to deal with on the beat (New on the Job). WOMEN HAVING A CUP OF COFFEE is the subject of the photograph that took grand prize in a contest sponsored by the international aid coalition Interaction: a selection of the winning entries. About Gifts and Giving JOHN W. KLUGE, founder and chairman of Metromedia, has pledged to leave Columbia University $400-million when he dies. HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY, in North Carolina, received a gift of $15-million; other recent gifts to nonprofit organizations and institutions. THE FACE OF PHILANTHROPY: The Education Development Center, in Newton, Mass., develops lessons that can be broadcast by radio to elementary schools in India. Also in This Issue OPINION: Nancy Langer says it's time to invest in better security for humanitarian-aid workers, and Pablo Eisenberg has some advice for the Ford Foundation as it searches for a new president. BOOKS: A guide to help small charities measure the results of their programs and an examination of giving by Pakistani-Americans, plus summaries of other publications on how three nonprofit programs aided recently released prisoners and the ways family foundations can promote social change. PEOPLE: Appointments and promotions in the nonprofit world. AWARDS: Honors for people and organizations in philanthropy.