According to a local news station, the United Way of the Virginias has lost its nonprofit status and should not be soliciting donations or receiving donations from people in West Virginia. That’s some tough luck, especially since the IRS won’t necessarily be able to resolve the process due to the shutdown.

With the coming exit of three-term New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, the rent-free status of the city’s charter schools is now up in the air. Two of the leading candidates, the Democrat Bill de Blasio and Republican contender Joseph J. Lhota, have taken opposing stances on the issue.

With half the staff at the Food and Drug Administration on furlough, some of the FDA’s duties are going undone, which means less ability to prevent things like the recent salmonella outbreak that spread to 18 states.

More than 7,000 children in Alabama, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and Mississippi will benefit from the largesse of John and Laura Arnold, who offered up enough to reopen Head Start programs that were closed with the government shutdown.

After the shuttering of the New York City Opera, several commentators have weighed in on the probable missteps the company took. However, one particularly insightful view is that the NYCO did itself in through seeking out endless white knights to rescue it and following one ill-considered move after another.

Here’s another example of a shop’s patrons choosing to save it from market pressures through communal action and crowdfunding.