Barefoot and baby faced, Colton Harrris-Moore has an extensive criminal record. The teen has spent the last 18 months as Washington state's most wanted man.

On Nov. 4, Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales received €10,000 award at the Nokia Foundation scholarship awards ceremony in Helsinki, Finland.

Singer Shakira has set up the Barefoot Foundation to insure that every child has the right to a quality education. The program already has schools running in Shakira's native Columbia.

Somebody doesn’t like Australia’s atheists. Two websites, the Atheist Foundation of Australia and the Global Atheist Convention, were both knocked out in major cyber attacks yesterday and were still offline today.

Eighteen-year-old Colton Harris-Moore, most commonly known as the 'barefoot robber,' is wanted by the Island Police, the RCMP,and the FBI. His mother describes him as a non-violent caring person who wants to open a shelter for abused animals.

Nine institutions and projects in Africa and India concerned with sustainable agriculture will receive grants worth $120 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the philanthropic organization established by Microsoft's co-founder and his wife.

The 73 year old Canadian environmental activist was awarded an honorary Right Livelihood Award for "... for his lifetime advocacy of the socially responsible use of science ..."

The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research announced on Thursday that it has registered as a tax-exempt charity in Canada.

The CodePlex Foundation, a non-profit foundation with the purpose of facilitating the exchange of code and understanding among software companies and open source communities, launched on September 10, 2009.

The British Dental Health Foundation is insisting that the government include boys among the recipients of the HPV vaccinations. The foundation cites the record high in mouth cancer, affecting more men than women.

A 12-year-old Canadian activist, Bilaal Rajan is asking people to join him for National Volunteer Week (April 19-25) by walking barefoot.

A fundraiser by the Calgary Catholic Teachers' Association to help the anti AIDS campaign of the Stephen Lewis Foundation was stopped by a Catholic bishop because the Foundation promotes the use of condoms.

Michael J. Fox has been off the air for a while dealing with Parkinson's Disease and his foundation for the disease. He's back though on ABC exploring the nature of optimism.

The Elton John AIDS Foundation hopes that folks will want a blinged out iPod. The Swarovski encrusted nanos are available in both the 8GB and 16GB models.

The “Barefoot Carmelite” nuns were worried that their group will become a thing of the past and were having difficulties in recruiting new nuns. Then they enlisted the support of YouTube, and now they are getting more calls, who wish to join them.

This past weekend the beginning stages have taken place for a new foundation called Helping Henry. The grassroots group's goals are to help patient families within the first days of dealing with a patient in ICU.

The McCormick Foundation is an organization founded by the former publisher of the Chicago Tribune. The Foundation is funding what seems to be a comprehensive program of support, research and development for the journalism profession as a whole.

The Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, which was once the largest Muslim charity in the U.S., has been found guilty of funneling millions of dollars to the Palestinian militant group Hamas.

Consider the Sunlight Foundation the perfect legislative watchdog and a citizen journalist’s closest friend. In a second part of a four-part series, learn how the Foundation makes the U.S. government more transparent with innovative Web 2.0 projects.

When a wildfire firefighter is knocked down by the flames they have a secret angel in their corner. Since 1999 The Wildland Firefighter Foundation has been helping those hurt in the line of duty get back on their feet.