A new paper asserts that double and triple bottom lines are distractions from the core business, which according to the paper’s authors often produces more social good than charitable activities. This position is, of course, not unfamiliar.

When – and if – the federal health care reform bill goes into effect in 2014, a group of Americans, currently estimated at 100,000 and growing, won't be required to carry health insurance. Their medical bills won't go unpaid, though. Instead, costs for health needs will be covered through what are known as faith-based health care sharing ministries.

Just like his time as Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich is playing fast and loose with charities he controls, using them for his own political purposes and, potentially for self-dealing and self-enrichment. A presidential candidate who screws around with nonprofits and foundations disqualifies himself for the highest office in the land.

A recent report from the libertarian Cato Institute says that nonprofit colleges and universities have higher profit margins than their for-profit and public counterparts, prompting a call for federal aid to students to be cut entirely.

Nonprofits are not simply generators of economic activity in many regions, but in the midst of a recession, often a part of the economy that is growing faster than the private sector. Is this a good thing?

Strange new fundraising! Wikileaks has now declared that it will be raising Bitcoins – untraceable digital cash – to try to bypass some of the problems that it has had in dealing with donations online.

This three-part series looking analytically but sympathetically at the operations of a local nonprofit – in this case, the Home Repair Resource Center in Cleveland Heights, Ohio –is a great example of the role that local newspapers can play to educate the public about the nonprofit sector.

Usually when we read stories about giving back, they're about people doing good things. But as WDIO.com reports, state legislators planning to give back funds to the federal government are doing anything but a good thing for Northern Wisconsin residents.

Fifty-one percent of the property in the city of Syracuse is tax-exempt. Altogether that property is worth $3.8 billion so the effect on the local tax base and the ability of the city to provide basic services is, of course significant.

Budget cuts tend to hit home at the very local level. This story from Jamestown, North Carolina, may seem small and very local, but it is representative of what nonprofits in small cities, small towns, and rural areas are facing on a daily basis as localities cut their budgets and eliminate funding for nonprofits.

A partnership formed by San Luis Obispo County in California and a local nonprofit health provider is threatening to collapse after the county cut its “partner’s” funding to the quick.