In a tough commentary on accountability, America, the national Catholic weekly magazine, decries the lack of responsibility some have taken in sexual abuse cases.

Does it make sense to shift the Camden, N.J.’s policing responsibility to the county government? Helene Pierson, executive director of Heart of Camden, sees the question as a distraction.

A great thank-you letter makes your donors feel like they made a difference and shows that your organization pays attention to details. How good are your thank-you letters?

In this nation’s obsession with the middle class, it seems to have abandoned the poor, who almost never get mentioned, except with derision. Where is the outrage?

A study of Fortune 500 companies finds that increasing numbers (in 2012, compared to 2011) of corporations are either disclosing political donations or refraining from making the donations.

Harvard’s endowment, still trying to recover from 2009 when it declined by 27 percent, or about $10 billion, has increased its holdings in forests, farms and natural resources.

On October 1st, Detroit will become the fifth major U.S. city to transfer the functions of the City’s health department to a nonprofit entity, though the move comes with controversy.

The University of California-Davis has reached a preliminary $1 million settlement after student demonstrators were pepper-sprayed by police in an incident that rallied the Occupy movement.

In Tampa’s “Suitcase City,” the University Area Community Development Corporation faces a challenge, one in which good community development storytelling would be helpful.

A slew of celebrities, including Edward Norton, Eva Longoria, and Snoop Dogg, are showing off their wordplay skills in a charity tournament of “Words With Friends.”

There was no reason for last week’s White House conference on innovation to be closed to the press, and there’s no reason for philanthropy to be complicit in diminishing transparency.

Fundraising for local projects is definitely one of those things that reflects the sensibility of the culture from which it emerges. So it is, I believe, with this nugget, which was in the newswires this morning: Local sheriff signs up to be tased in return for cash.