San Diego nonprofit Computers 2 SD Kids is bridging the technology gap in local communities by connecting low-income families with refurbished computers.

The HBO star gives back to his community by encouraging enterprises that bring fresh, healthy food to neighborhoods that lack access to it.

Say what you will about the Cornel West, he’s never at a loss for words and as usual he has some sharp ones for Obama.

Joan Hecht’s work with the Lost Boys of Sudan reminds us of the continuing tragedy of the Darfur region of the Sudan and the inadequate responses of other countries—including our own. 

The ability for same-sex couples to sponsor foreign-born partners for green cards may be the sticking point for the immigration bill.

The 2012 elections showed that politicians ignore the changing demographics of our nation at their own peril. The same is true for philanthropy.

A small group of Catholic women from Britain, America and Australia convened at the Vatican to release pink smoke as a way to advocate for opening up priesthood to women.

On Tuesday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at a record high level, but former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich says four key points prevent most Americans from sharing in that recovery.

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has revised its state-by-state analysis of sequestration cuts. After a while, it’s just so many numbers, right? But there are real people in trouble behind these numbers.

As hundreds of business sign brief asking the Supreme Court to find the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional, have we arrived at a tipping point of cultural change?

At recent events in New York City and Washington, D.C., African American millennials gather to share in a more inclusive vision of contemporary philanthropy.

Social enterprise is attracting people who can point to achievements in a variety of fields, but we must realize that our “merits” in one field may not necessarily help in others.

Former U.S. Rep. J.C. Watts (R-Okla.) has started Insight, a nonprofit aimed at recruiting and placing minority staffers in Republican congressional offices.

Some suggest that charitable giving fuels inequality by making it seem more acceptable.

Malala Yousufzai, the Pakistani girl who was shot by the Taliban for promoting girls’ education, is healthy enough to leave the hospital and now has a charitable fund.

A new United Nations International Labor Organization (ILO) study finds that, internationally, many domestic workers are completely or partly excluded from protection under labor law.

More than 50,000 people in Taiwan gathered together in a 30-hour fast this weekend to draw attention to the plight of those affected by hunger, war, natural disasters and disease.

Economists can argue about its impact in dollars and cents, but as Joseph Stiglitz points out and as anti-poverty advocates know, economic inequality tears at the very social fabric of our nation.

In a sign of trying economic conditions and an inadequate level of aid, thousands of people rioted in Taylor, Mich. last week after waiting for a chance to get Section 8 housing vouchers.

Now that Asian American philanthropists have “made it,” what are they choosing to donate to?

Historian Robert Dalzell says that there is a pattern in U.S. history of very high profile, public giving at times when financial conditions cause society to eye the rich harshly.

In a video, personal finance guru Suze Orman makes good use of her plain talking, common sense credibility by laying out a strong economic case for marriage equality, using her own marriage as an example.

A number of youth advocates testified on Capitol Hill last week about the “school-to-prison-pipeline,” offering details about conditions that most people don’t hear about or know about.

The Swedish charity the Care Christmas is once again taking flak for its annual tradition of distributing cigarettes to homeless people during the holidays.

Even the Tea Party’s all-but-libertarian former FreedomWorks chairman Dick Armey is appalled by massive secret campaign donations. “I have never seen anything like this before,” he says.

After a bitter debate that shows no sign of stopping, Michigan has become the first “blue” state to adopt the “right to work” law. What impact will this have on unions and workers?

When two Kroger grocery stores close next month, they will leave behind them an exacerbated “food desert” problem in Southeast Raleigh, N.C.

In California, under Proposition 139, a number of victims’ services nonprofits receive a cut of the 20 percent deductions taken from the wages of prison inmates.

Joined by Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) doesn’t want the Senate to take up a United Nations treating calling for equal rights for disabled people.

Prominent press mentions of community action agencies with financial troubles due to charges of mismanagement obscures the amazing poverty-fighting work of so many of these nonprofits.