The Milwaukee Brewers may have lost the National League Championship Series to the St. Louis Cardinals, but they are winners in the eyes of nonprofits that receive grants from the Brewers Community Foundation or those that get a chance to staff Miller Park concession stands for a share of the proceeds.

An Oregon nonprofit creatively connects rural and urban communities in order to fight hunger.

We don’t know whether AT&T’s proposed buyout of T-Mobile is a good thing or bad thing for market competition, the securities markets, or for consumers, but plenty of nonprofits have weighed with the FCC to support AT&T’s acquisition of the German-owned firm. No mystery why: A ton of these nonprofits have received charitable grants from AT&T.

How much is the right amount to spend on communications during an economic downturn? How do we even know?

Sometimes in this work one gets to meet the truly admirable leaders of the nonprofit sector. We got to know and admire Elouise Cobell, a Blackfeet woman who for 15 years led the Indian land trust case. She died from cancer this week at the age of 65. Her passing leaves the nonprofit sector with one fewer heroine of advocacy and activism. 

It wasn’t too long ago that defenders of “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” (DADT), the discriminatory law that barred openly gay women and men from serving in the military, warned of the doom and gloom that the law’s repeal would supposedly bring. Since DADT’s end last month, nowadays lesbian and gay military personnel are proudly convening in full view.

The rise of two immigrants attests to the power of the American Dream and the contributions of immigrants to their adopted country.

Not really “news” per se, since Harvard always seems to have a relatively easy time raising money. But we thought we’d pass along the details anyway.

It’s a campaign document issued by the White House, no question about it. But “Creating Pathways to Opportunity” provides a useful template for taking stock of the Obama Administration’s strategies and programs for helping Americans survive the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression.

Darrell Issa is Republican congressman from California and chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, the lower chamber’s main “investigations” committee. He’s also the co-chair of the Issa Family Foundation, which hands out grants based on recommendations from the congressman’s staff. One observer calls the set-up “weird,” and another terms it “bizarre,” but apparently it is on the up-and-up.

As development continues in Harlem, public schools and some nonprofits in this New York City neighborhood have drawn the attention of national corporations that want a piece of the action.

When his opponents began flinging the “class warfare” charge at President Obama for daring to suggest that the wealthy ought to pay slightly higher taxes in order to close the deficit, the “class war” epithet was mostly laughed off the stage. But when urban-development expert Joel Kotkin accuses Obama of ginning up resentment against against the upper middle class while protecting the super-rich, the charges have a better chance of sticking.