Additional revenue kept the bottom from falling out on many public programs, as well as funding for nonprofits, as the state’s economy keeps pace with the rest of the nation’s recovery.

Project Bread, which raises money to combat hunger, will incorporate the Massachusetts Farm to School organization under its corporate umbrella.

GE and other corporate tax dodgers are putting big bucks into the Campaign to Fix the Debt, aimed at bringing the nation’s debts and deficits under control. Are they merely being corporate good citizens, or is this a corporate agenda to manipulate and shape the debt and deficit agenda to suit their own purposes?

The partisan political activity of New York City’s Hasidic community, like other examples of politics from the pulpit, seems to violate the amendment to the 501(c)(3) law that prohibits partisan political activity by groups receiving and using tax-deductible charitable contributions. However, the wall prohibiting church/charity politicking has crumbled to the point where political involvement by religious groups like these doesn’t raise many eyebrows.

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Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania (GSEP) has a tradition of training leaders and involving youth in governance. Its practices can provide a framework from which other nonprofit organizations can build a strong board now and in the future.

The charitable gift funds like Fidelity and Schwab are growing their pools of DAFs at a remarkable pace. This article is a rundown of the landscape.

As Bradley Manning prepares to spend the next several decades in prison, the staff of the Guardian turned their computer hard drives to unreadable scrap rather than leave them vulnerable to government confiscation. What lessons can we learn in the face of such violations?

Paul Piff’s study demonstrates the wealthy are more narcissistic than low-income individuals. Nonprofits can become the mirror on the wall, either aggrandizing the donor’s sense of self or encouraging introspection.

Information from congressional Democrats shows that the IRS monitored applications from nonprofits formed in the wake of the demise of ACORN, which some see as evidence that the special scrutiny of IRS hit both liberal and conservative nonprofits.

A computer-savvy Facebook user pranked Mark Zuckerberg to show an exploitable vulnerability in the website’s software. In gratitude, a crowdfunding effort was established—and it’s brought in more than ten grand.

The rise of nonprofit business models challenges journalists to write stories that engage and interest readers, while also providing useful information that boosts social capital in our society.

The Life Extension Foundation has as its goal the avoidance of death. But its close ties to a vitamin-selling entity have led the IRS to bring its tax-exempt status to an end.