Ballmer Group Names First National Director of Housing Letter to the Editor Nonprofit News From Elsewhere Five cancer research institutes have received a $250 million donation to pool their efforts to fight the most difficult cancers. The gift from the family of William Hunter Goodwin III, who died of cancer a year ago at age 51, will bankroll the Break Through Cancer Foundation, which will include teams from Johns Hopkins, the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The foundation aims to raise another $250 million to target pancreatic cancer, ovarian cancer, glioblastoma, and acute myelogenous leukemia. The Goodwin family owns a real-estate development company in Richmond, Va. (Cancer Letter)