The author of this examination of BP’s recent charitable giving behavior comes from the Heritage Foundation’s Center for Media and Public Policy, questioning why BP is running money through state governments rather than private charities.

More than 100,000 people in the tiny West African nation of Benin were robbed of more than $130 million of their savings in a Ponzi scheme operated by Investment Consultancy and Computering Services.

In Minnesota, the founder of an organization that serves ex-cons with substance abuse problems was escorted from the agency by the police at the board’s direction.

Pre-Katrina, there was one charter school in the city. Last year, more than 60 percent of public school students in the city attended privately run charter schools.

A small nonprofit encourages people to become veterinary technicians in a truly novel way.

Give credit to the Abingdon, Virginia nonprofit, People Incorporated, for knowing what it’s doing. It just got a second stimulus grant of $1 million for weatherization, meaning that it must have done well enough on its first $1 million to warrant being refunded.

Connecticut foundations awarded 22 percent more in grants in 2008 than in 2006, despite a 1 percent drop in asset value due to the economic collapse that year. However, the head of the Connecticut Council on Philanthropy doesn't expect that this trend continued in 2009.

Ever since it was disclosed that Howard Sunkin, the president of the Los Angeles Dodger's charitable foundation, earned more than $400,000 in 2007, he's been feeling the heat.

What happened to the 100,000 or so residents of New Orleans who left and apparently decided not to move back?

A Brookings Institutions report takes stock of New Orleans five years after Hurricane Katrina and reaches four conclusions.