Pasqual named director, Foundation Center D.C. office

A study conducted by the Urban Institute says Teach for America teachers are more effective than traditional teachers, according to student exam performance.

Children's Miracle Network launched ShoppingforMiracles.org, effort allowing online shoppers to donate portion of purchases to the network.

Farmers Insurance to give labor, $15,000 check to Habitat for Humanity of Ventura County to replace stolen tools, build three homes in Simi Valley, Calif.

The Global Fund, Geneva-based partnership for treatment of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, named MS&L, Paris, as communications and media-relations partner.

Habitat for Humanity of Colorado will dedicate its 1000^th home on Nov. 22^nd in Longmont, Colo.

Azure Marketing Communications, Dallas, received 2008 Kindness to Animals Media Award from Operation Kindness, North Texas' largest no-kill shelter.

Richard F. Keevey, director, Policy Research Institute for the Region, Princeton University, named to board of trustees, Center for Health Care Strategies, Hamilton, N.J.

ITT Watermark, Mercy Corps partner to supply filter systems and clean water to over 50,000 inhabitants of La Libertad and Meambar, Honduras.

Payless ShoeSource to give $1M in children's shoes with help of local charities in Payless Gives Shoes 4 Kids program; information online.

Trust for Public Land voted to protect 92 acres of Stringer's Ridge north of Chattanooga, Tenn., for natural and historic preservation.

Jerry Hirsch, founder, Social Venture Partners Arizona, received 2008 Paul Shoemaker Leadership Award from Social Venture Partners International.

Several of Children's Miracle Network's 170 hospitals were ranked in the Chronicle of Philanthropy's list of top 400 charities in the U.S.: 42^nd place Sanford Health, S.D., 69^th Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, 148^th Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 224^th Children's Hospital Los Angeles, 254^th Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, 367^th Texas Children's Hospital, Dallas.

Songs of Hope V music industry benefit and awards ceremony raised over $350,000 for City of Hope for cancer research.

Marguerite Barankitse, founder of Maison Shalom villages for orphans and former child soldiers in Burundi, received $1M Opus Prize for humanitarian social innovation from Opus Prize Foundation.

Lateefah Simon, former director of reentry services, Office of the San Francisco District Attorney, named executive director, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area.