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Fairfax County Park Foundation 08/27/2015 09:47am • The Fairfax County Park Foundation, established in 2000, raises private funds, obtains grants and creates partnerships to supplement tax dollars to meet the growing demand for park services open space and camp scholarships for homeless children. Don't Overlook the Big City for Your Retirement Home 08/26/2015 08:00pm • For Loretta Halter, every day is like vacation. The 65-year-old spends her time spotting celebrities after Broadway plays, lining up to meet bestselling authors at book signings and wandering through some of the world's most renown art museums. Halter isn't a tourist. She's a retiree who decided to Stewardship Investing: Why Should Companies Care? 08/25/2015 08:00pm • It sounds like an episode of "Downton Abbey," but stewardship is a hot topic in investing. Stewardship, and its cousin, ESG (which focuses on environmental, social and governance) investing, are holding the attention of institutional investors as evidence mounts that doing the right thing pays off. 4 College Funding Sources -- and How Can They Affect Financial Aid 08/25/2015 08:00pm • Parents of college-bound students may fret about the amount of money they've saved for college. But the type of investments they choose also factor into deciding how much financial aid their child will get for school. That's important because most students need some financial aid for college. Of fu 7 Smart Things You Can Do Now to Cut Expenses the Rest of the Year 08/25/2015 07:00am • The best money-saving tips are things you can do once in a few minutes or in an hour and then have that action continually save you money over the next several months (or even the next several years). Those kinds of strategies can fill up an afternoon or a weekend, but thereafter you'll have smaller 6 Retirement Tips for Millennials 08/23/2015 08:00pm • If you are a millennial, retirement planning is probably at the bottom of your financial priority list at this point in life. Finding steady employment, paying off student loans, mortgage payments and kids are all likely front and center when it comes to your finances. However, just because you hav 10 Steps to Max Out Your IRA 08/23/2015 08:00pm • Grow your nest egg.Saving in an individual retirement account can significantly reduce your tax bill and help your retirement funds grow faster without the drag of taxes. But you need to pay careful attention to the rules to meet deadlines and avoid penalties and fees. Here's how to make optimum use 6 Tactics to Save on After-School Child Care 08/23/2015 08:00pm • Your children are old enough to go to school, but not quite old enough to be home alone, either. In those hours right after school when the income-earning members of the household still have professional responsibilities, the options for child care can be frustrating and limited. The easy solution 9 Ways to Invest on a Small Budget 08/23/2015 08:00pm • Have a close encounter with Wall Street.Perhaps you've tried to break the pull of Planet Low Budget to invest in something -- anything -- and felt like you were bowled over by a blinding light, as in "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." If so, take heart: Cary Guffey understands that simile like no 5 Ways You Can Pay for Retirement in Advance 08/23/2015 08:00pm • In retirement your income is largely fixed. Your Social Security payments will increase only by the annual inflation rate. And you can safely withdraw only about 4 percent of your savings each year, perhaps also adjusted for inflation. Given these constraints, it can be difficult to cope with sudde Should Dividends Be the Focus of Your Retirement Income? 08/23/2015 08:00pm • Heading into late August, more than 40 percent of the year-to-date total return of the Standard & Poor's 500 index is from dividends. Although investors are often attuned to intraday price swings, they are missing a significant part of the picture if they overlook dividends. In the past, reti Dominion's donations partially subsidized by its customers 08/22/2015 09:00am • RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia residents have been billed tens of thousands of dollars to pay for donations the state's most powerful electricity company has made to politically connected charities, according to company records obtained by The Associated Press. Recent Dominion Resources Inc. don What Smart Investors Know That You Don't 08/20/2015 08:00pm • More knowledgeable investors tend to make smarter savings and investment decisions that further increase their wealth. A recent study of Federal Reserve employees, who are admittedly more financially savvy than the general population, found that people who were best able to correctly answer five fin 4 Ways to Recover From Summer Overspending 08/20/2015 08:00pm • Summertime is ideal for kicking back and unwinding. If you're not careful, though, that same easygoing attitude can take a serious toll on your finances. Whether it's barreling ahead with extravagant vacation plans or enjoying too many meals out, the result is often the same: a bruised bank account How to Evaluate an Early Retirement Offer 08/20/2015 08:00pm • In today's corporate environment where restructuring and downsizing are the norm, many employers are offering their employees early retirement packages. As you near retirement age, you may find yourself confronted with an offer from your employer for early retirement. While many early retirement of