The Gates Foundation has awarded the top prize in its “Reinvent the Toilet” challenge to a solar-powered toilet developed at the California Institute of Technology.

As they struggle to meet the demand for welfare services, states are turning to charities to help them meet federal requirements for support, which could ultimately mean less help for low income people.

At a California State Senate hearing, a bipartisan group of legislators examined the amount of charity care that is being delivered by the state’s tax-exempt nonprofit hospitals.

Many local United Way chapters have policies prohibiting partnerships with discriminatory organizations, but those same chapters have been partnering with the Boy Scouts for many years.

Amnesty International has added a new tool to its kit for fighting human rights violations around the world: commercial satellite technology.

Nonprofits are supposed to work with voting rights and voter registration laws in a nonpartisan way, but what happens when those laws are seen by some as partisan and discriminatory?

It’s unethical for a nonprofit to provide poor-quality service because it can’t raise enough money. The same should apply to nonprofit infrastructure and working conditions.

A recent report by the Health Care Compliance Association has found that nonprofit health care providers are audited more than for-profit health care providers.