The withdrawal of a Department of Health transportation contract from a local provider isn’t necessarily a cause for local newspapers, but in this case, the contractor is a social enterprise division of a major corporation in Buffalo.

When UK teen Stephen Sutton learned his cancer was incurable, he posted a 46-item “bucket list” to Facebook. One outstanding item turned into a social media fundraising campaign that raised over 3.6 million pounds for the Teenage Cancer Trust.

It’s a repetitive farce being played out amongst insider traders: Break the law and violate trust all you like, and when you get caught, just haul out your charity to prove what a good robber baron you really are.

Dale Russakoff has written a compelling insider’s look into how Mark Zuckerberg’s $100 million for Newark public schools really played out in the hands of Mayor Cory Booker, Governor Chris Christie, local politicians, school administrators, and the citizens of Newark.

As we hear of the impending acquisition by AT&T of DirecTV for $49 billion, we wonder at the anti-capitalist bent of it all.

Have we in the nonprofit sector—those who care about injustice and inequality—been fiddling while Rome burns? Not exactly, but there is much more that we can do and be in this sector if we break out of some of our self-imposed mental bonds.

In the UK, the National Council of Voluntary Organizations is recommending that all charities publish salary ratios—that is, the relationship between the highest and lowest salaries.

We have heard of no one defending Donald Sterling’s racist rant, not even his sort-of wife, but condemning the vulgar racism of Sterling is easy. Dealing with the institutional and structural racism embedded throughout our society is much harder.

In a hard-hitting column in The Atlantic, Benjamin Soskis contributes some insights into the melee regarding the positive and negative aspects of billionaire philanthropists making investments in public policy and public systems.

No one ever said the Affordable Care Act was going to be cheap. The costs of just four states’ failed insurance exchanges total $474 million.

It’s time for corporations to reveal exactly when and what they are donating to political nonprofits such as 501(c)(4) social welfare organizations and 501(c)(6) trade associations. The tobacco giant Reynolds American has done so voluntarily, but it’s time to make these disclosures mandatory.

Add California to the short but growing roster of states that are piercing the secrecy of political nonprofits.