University/community partnerships can be very rich in many ways. This one in Beaumont, Ohio is starting with a door to door survey. Can readers let us know their experiences with such models?

A new report from the National Endowment for the Arts demonstrates a high correlation between arts involvement and student achievement, especially for students from underserved families.

Some foundations and nonprofits have occasionally looked at national donor-advised funds with suspicion, but such skepticism is no longer warranted, as the funds are playing an important role in modern philanthropy.

The American Legislative Exchange Council, a well known corporate lobbying group, is shifting its advocacy focus in the wake of several criticisms raised by the death of Trayvon Martin.

Randy Shaw, the executive director of Tenderloin Housing Clinic in San Francisco, says the juxtaposition of low nonprofit wages and a high cost of living in the city spells crisis.

For National Volunteer Week, the Massachusetts Service Alliance has launched a new campaign to connect nonprofits to volunteers and to increase volunteerism across the state.

From Scranton and Pittsburgh, Pa. to Providence, R.I., a number of cities facing tight budgets are looking to make local tax-exempt entities a little—or a lot—less tax-exempt.

In the Guardian’s Politics Live blog, Andrew Sparrow covers U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron’s recent “Big Society” speech, which outlined his vision for the charitable sector.

The idea for Cell Phones for Soldiers came from two seventh graders in 2004 that are now contemplating careers in nonprofit management after they graduate from college.

Yale economist Robert Shiller, well known for co-developing the S&P Case-Shiller Home Price Index, has a new book out that proposes the concept of share-issuing “participation nonprofits.”

According to a new study by the Baltimore-based Living Cities Design Lab, large nonprofits are underutilized “anchor institutions” for regional economic vitality and equity.

Alec Baldwin, Ben Fold and hundreds of other advocates are lobbying Congress for more funding for the arts, which has receded since its high point in 1992.