A provision slipped in the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2012 appears to limit, in a broad way, the advocacy rights of organizations receiving appropriations from Labor, HHS, and Education.

The Twin Cities-based nonprofit Fare for All is selling discount food to everyone—even bargain hunters—and that has caused concern among some local business owners.

A lawsuit from the National Fair Housing Alliance charges that Wells Fargo maintains foreclosed homes in white neighborhoods much better than homes in minority neighborhoods.

TV talk show host Dr. Mehmet Oz and Michelle Bouchard have developed a national nonprofit, HealthCorps, which looks to address childhood obesity by using the Peace Corps model.

The U.S. Combined Federal Campaign recently decided to allow the Central Asia Institute to receive some of its funds despite concerns about “lack of internal controls.”

A Pennsylvania whistleblower’s complaint raises interesting legal questions about the extent to which nonprofit whistleblowers are protected.

Newspaper heir and businessman William Ballantine pleads guilty to using a charitable trust and a church to launder money and evade taxes, and offers a curious explanation.

Philanthropy and fund development are not about getting your organization’s fair share, but finding those who might be interested and then nurturing relationships and loyalty.

It is one of the more distasteful (to me) traditions in which philanthropy engages: the group tour of suffering as site visit. This comes up because of a story that I covered on the newswire this morning.

We are apt to praise the entrepreneurial spirit, but entrepreneurship is not automatically tied to success—a fact that has not stopped proponents from prescribing it as a cure-all for our sector’s woes, and which may have blinded some to the very real challenges that await those eager to put the concept into practice. Until the value of social entrepreneurship has been empirically assessed and established, it would be wise to proceed with care.

According to a U.S. Defense Department report, wounded veterans at Camp Lejeune, N.C. complained of a “petting zoo” atmosphere when some charities came to visit.

After the all-male county commission in Miami County, Kan. declined Title X funding, a grassroots group raises money to provide low income women with contraception.