News Briefing: Foundations Set Record for Giving in ’07

• Giving by foundations sets a record, hitting almost $43 billion in 2007.  [New York Times]

• Sam's Club revives food donations to local food pantries two years after stopping the practice in favor of cash donations.  [Associated Press]

• European peacekeepers in Chad search for the killers of a French aid worker.  [Associated Press]

• Bush asks Congress for $770 million in new global food aid.  [Washington Post]