Nonprofit news from around the country and the world. Today, pastors play chicken with IRS, what’s more important than Facebook?, stimulus cliff: 240,000 jobs at risk? and more.

This past weekend, some 100 pastors across the nation took to their pulpits to endorse political candidates.

The Mikkelsen brothers are the founders of Refugees United, an NGO that uses secure web and mobile technology to enable refugees to find loved ones throughout the world.

An “Emergency Fund” under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program that helped put an estimated 240,000 unemployed people to work is set to expire on Sepotember 30.

This vituperative anti-nonprofit op-ed by Walter Williams deserves circulation and commentary.

According to the 68-page complaint, SEC staff “committed numerous negligent, non-discretionary acts and inactions due chiefly to their inexperience, incompetence, bureaucratic pettiness, laziness, inattentiveness, and an agency culture of deference to powerful industry figures.”

The authors of a new book contend that long-term goals of economic and social justice have been marginalized in the agenda of community organizing.

Nonprofit news from around the country and the world. Today, recession worsening decline in religious giving, tough questions for microlenders, small Haitian nonprofits struggle while donations remain unspent and more.

There's no doubt the downturn is creating a big hole in collection plates at churches and synagogues across the nation.

The Walrus Blog—commentary on the discussions at the Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting—asks “If you were an NGO micro-finance loan officer, how would you respond to a poor woman’s plea of ‘Am I not poor, too?’ after you have just denied her a loan?”

Nonprofits with relatively small budgets often remain unfunded in their efforts to help local populations in overlooked or rural neighborhoods even while only 15 percent of the pledged $4.7 billion in international donor dollars have been spent.

One of the founders of Facebook, rapidly climbing the ranks of he nation’s richest people, announced a $100 million donation he intended to make to the public school system of Newark, N.J.