On the day after Memorial Day, we remember the huge number of veterans from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars who are jobless.

A group of hackers that calls itself Lulzsec has assaulted PBS online by cracking its servers, posting thousands of secret passwords, and placing a story on the PBS Newshour blog that announced Tupac Shakur was alive and well.

The Development Authority of the North Country voted Thursday morning to increase the money it will set aside for rental housing projects from $1.2 million to $3 million.

Everyone wants to engage the public. But how? Though these ten tactics for engaging the public were pulled from a report targeted toward governments,  we think the tools listed in this table (after the break) are also worth considering for nonprofits that wish to engage their stakeholders online. And we think you’re missing the boat if you do not.–The Editors

The connections between the banking sector and the nonprofit community development industry are long and deep. For state nonprofit associations and the national organization, these banks are important – if not interesting – partners.

NPQ’s Week in Review highlighs reader engagement – whether it is in the form of tweets, comments, or contributed articles and Newswires. This week: nonprofits act like for-profits, tweeting from a disaster, and plans for an Abortionplex. 

Connecticut is close to becoming the first state in the nation to pass mandatory paid sick leave for service workers – yet the YMCA has pushed for an exemption for nationally chartered nonprofits.

Philanthropist Pete Peterson gives $200,000 apiece to six national nonprofit think tanks for deficit reduction plans-and gets six completely different analyses and strategies. Only six?

Laptop warriors to take on activist apps in head to head competition.

Community food security in Marion County, Oregon takes a hit when a state land sale cuts off water supply for an innovative county jail-based garden.

As local governments try to balance their budgets without raising taxes, nonprofits are sometimes the losers.

For-profit colleges are gaining ground-fast-on their nonprofit and public sector peers. But do the for-profit colleges deliver a comparable quality education and do their graduates armed with for-profit college bachelor's degrees do well-financially and otherwise-in their careers?