This is the largest donation to the museum by an athlete.

The annual sculpture competition returns to the National Building Museum with a transportation theme.

The Smithsonian Air and Space Museum is getting a $30 million donation from Boeing, which will mostly go to renovating its “Milestones of Flight” hall.

Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton says that for each day federal workers are forced to take unpaid leave, she will donate one day’s salary, or $476.71.

The Human Rights Campaign today announced a $100,000 contribution from the actor Brad Pitt to help fund the organization’s final six days of campaigning for ballot measures in four states that would legalize same-sex marriage.

The campaign to make sure that same-sex marriage stays legal in Maryland got another boost this week from the ranks of professional football with a $100,000 donation from former NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue.

Today the Smithsonian announced that conservative billionaire David Koch had donated $35 million for a new Dinosaur Hall in the National Museum of Natural History.

Good news: philanthropist William E. Conway Jr. donated $1 million to the Capitol Area Food Bank yesterday, ensuring that the metro region’s main provider of food for the poor would not have to start charging its clients for produce.

This morning, the District is expected to announce the donation of $3 million from the charitable arm of Walmart to establish job training programs around the city — another in a series of donations which will serve to market the store as a stakeholder in the District.

Arlington’s David M. Brown Planetarium, whose attempts to raise $402,000 to avoid being closed down are frequently noted in our Look Up column, got some good New Year’s news: they recently received a $100,000 donation.