The report released by the Silicon Valley Community Foundation on the philanthropic views of 32 Chinese-American donors is well worth the read.

Pelosi and Boehner: Both are Catholics, and both claim policy alignment with the Pope’s message on poverty and capitalism. Can we take a whole year of this?

Minnesota Legal Aid and a national Jewish anti-hunger organization team up to seek changes in public policy and funding.

When President Obama gathered a diverse crowd of people to witness his announcement of the My Brother’s Keeper initiative, he even corralled Rev. Al Sharpton and Bill O’Reilly to participate—together—as though they both supported the president’s plans for helping black men and black boys. In the weeks since the announcement, My Brother’s Keeper has become something of a Rorschach test; everyone sees parts of they like. But the new initiative has its share of critics as well.

The financial services sector is kicking and screaming about a pending Dodd-Frank rule that would require them to conduct diversity self-assessments—not mandate affirmative action hiring, not mandate changes in loan or investment policies, just conduct assessments of their employment diversity. Can you hear the echoes of the California debate about foundation diversity some years back?

Devyani Khobragade wasn’t covered by diplomatic immunity when she allegedly committed visa fraud to bring a woman to the U.S. to be her housekeeper, but she got it after the fact, and the legal charges against her were tossed out in federal court. NPQ follows up its coverage from January, and sees that the principles of women’s rights and treatment of domestic help at stake remain unresolved.

NPQ has previously written about the strange setup at the Evergreen Foundation in North Carolina. Now it has instituted an unusual requirement for grantees: Clean up our image!

The City of Grand Rapids ruled that the Acton Institute, a federally recognized nonprofit, didn’t qualify as a “nonprofit educational institution”—after they completed a multimillion-dollar capital investment in the city.

Loan programs for nonprofit organizations exist all over the country and are badly needed everywhere. Here is a new one in Arizona!

Missing a grant deadline can cause a world of hurt, as this story attests.

A 76-page appendix to a FEC report about a 501(c)(4) is 100 percent censored. Why? What does it say? More importantly, is this yet another signal of the inability of the FEC to police campaigns?

The right-to-work battle expands to Maine with a call from Gov. Paul LePage for “Open for Business” zones with right-to-work policies. Will nonprofits stand with organized labor or take refuge in Maine’s forests?