• Rethink, a breast-cancer charity for young women, is launching a brazen online campaign to spread awareness of the disease.  [Reuters]

• Edmund Hillary, known for being the first to climb Mt. Everest, spent decades funding hospitals, health clinics, airfields, and schools in Nepal.  He died today at the age of 88.  [Associated Press]

• The Boston Symphony Orchestra looks to raise up to $400 million in its new fundraising campaign.  [Boston Globe]

• Senator Clinton will give to charity $23,000 her campaign received from a prominent Democratic donor after learning that there is a warrant out for his arrest.  [New York Times]

• Sales from a secondhand women's clothing store in Boston supports job training and career counseling for low-income women.  [Boston Globe]

• Gates Foundation is readying for Buffett's money, due to take full effect in 2009.  [Omaha World-Herald]

• CARE's new program strategy attracts women donors.  [New York Times]

Associated Press:  Drew Gilpin Faust recalls her mother lecturing her that ''this is a man's world, sweetie, and the sooner you learn that, the better off you'll be.''

Associated Press:  Melinda Gates has traveled the world with her husband, meeting with the rich and powerful and visiting its poorest in remote African villages. She and her husband share top billing at the world’s richest foundation, but Bill Gates always dominated the spotlight — until this year.

New York Times: Oprah Winfrey and ABC on Friday announced plans to team up to create two new feel-good reality shows. The two series will mark Ms. Winfrey’s first venture into regular prime-time programming and the initial effort from the new television unit of her company, Harpo Productions.

Houtlust - Nonprofit Advertising and Social Campaigns: Saatchi & Saatchi Sydney have created yet another thought-provoking campaign in support of White Ribbon Day in Australia, the United Nations' International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women on November 25. Building on the award winning campaigns of the previous two years, the approach this year aims to bring the issue of violence against women even closer to home, by calling on fathers to take action now in order to improve the future safety of their daughters.

Mind Petals: The Global Fund for Women was not started by three incredibley weathly women. It was started by three working women who were deeply committed, passionately immersed, in a notion that you could promote social change by investing in women. In Spanish the words for invest and invert are the same…we would turn the traditional model of philanthropy on its head. It does not require a lot of money to invest in philanthropy for social change.

Houtlust - nonprofit advertising - social campaigns: Following an invitation by Amnesty International Greece to raise public awareness and mobilize people for the protection of human rights, 360 posters and advertisements were created and entered in a competition. The creative posters were exhibited in February 2006 in the new Benaki Museum of Athens and published in a catalogue.