The New York Times

November 12, 2009, The New York Times — Stephanie Strom answers your questions on charitable giving.

November 11, 2009, The New York Times — BRAD SUGARS says he believes that cancer can be defeated, one birthday at a time.

November 11, 2009, The New York Times — THIS holiday season, consumers are expected to cut back both their spending on holiday gifts as well as their giving to charity.

November 11, 2009, The New York Times — THE titans of Wall Street are famous for star-studded galas that raise millions of dollars for a host of good causes. And for a tiny group of high school students on Long Island, taking a page out of these financiers’ books has made their own charity, A Midwinter Night’s Dream, a million-dollar success.

November 11, 2009, The New York Times — FOUR years ago, the visitors at SecondLife.com staged a virtual walkathon and raised $5,000 for the American Cancer Society by sending avatars walking in loops with mouse clicks and key strokes.

November 11, 2009, The New York Times — FOUNDATIONS that increase grants to spend down their endowment and then close are proving to be a boon to charities in the short run, but the trend is also causing anxiety among the charities about their future fund-raising.

November 10, 2009, The New York Times — Mona Webster, a lighthouse keeper’s daughter who lived in Edinburgh and died in August at 96, had a love of birds, and warblers in particular — of the human kind. She demonstrated that affection by leaving most of her fortune to the Metropolitan Opera and a nature charity in Britain.

November 11, 2009, The New York Times — AFTER years in the shadows, the everyday donor is emerging as philanthropy’s newest hero, the driver of a more down-to-earth approach to charity. Sure, Bill and Melinda Gates, Warren Buffett, Bono and other celebrity mega-donors still have their place, but now high-profile charities are homing in on smaller donations, while new charities are being organized around the principle of modest giving.

November 8, 2009, The New York Times — Last month, David Roodman, a research fellow at the Center for Global Development, pressed a button on his laptop as his bus left the Lincoln Tunnel in Manhattan and started a debate that has people re-examining the country’s latest celebrated charity, Kiva.org.

November 1, 2009, The New York Times — In the weeks before the New York City Marathon, as he grappled with shin splints and a sore Achilles’ tendon, the actor Edward Norton fixated on a mantra he had plucked from a book by the Japanese author Haruki Murakami: