The 501(c)(6) organization Americans for Job Security faces a complaint lodged with the IRS about its electioneering activities. As elections approach, it likely won’t be the last such complaint.

In another example of leveraging pop celebrity status for social causes, the Jon Bon Jovi Soul Foundation opens a nonprofit restaurant to nourish the hungry and build a stronger community.

What might nonprofits learn about what a Mitt Romney administration would mean for them from Kenneth Griffin, the billionaire hedge fund mogul who is one of Romney’s big supporters?

Chely Wright, one of the very few openly gay country musicians, celebrates the opening of LIKEME Lighthouse, the only LGBT center in the Kansas City, Mo. metropolitan area.

Until recently, even community foundations were pretty much the province of the wealthy, but according to the C.S. Mott Foundation’s Nick Deychakiwsky, “Community philanthropy is for everyone.” Can a new, more bottom-up approach produce better results?

A report finds value-based banks are “outperforming” standard banks in areas such as “return on assets, growth in loans and deposits, and capital strength”—but success isn’t guaranteed. 

According to the CoStar Group, a real estate information service, in 2011, 270 churches were sold after defaulting on their loans; 131 were sold by banks themselves.

Following the success and subsequent criticism of the Kony 2012 viral video, Ben Keesey, CEO of the nonprofit Invisible Children, releases an eight-minute video in an attempt to rebut critics.

Arkansas is planning to move Medicaid from a fee-for-service model to an “episode of care” system, but developmental disabilities nonprofits aren’t sure the new system will work for them.

The City of San Jose, Calif. wants to see 100,000 new trees planted by 2022, and the driving force behind the implementation of this plan is the nonprofit Our City Forest.

In Louisiana, state law doesn’t allow public officials to receive compensation for public duties from non-governmental organizations, but a new library bill aims to change that.

While health insurance rates for consumers keep rising, some Minnesota legislators are questioning why the state’s four largest nonprofit health insurers have so much in reserve.