Five years after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, the nation must consider how the sector—and how society—should prepare financially for the next Katrina, the next destabilizing catastrophe. That is exactly the question Lorna Bourg of the Southern Mutual Help Association is raising.

Nonprofit news from around the country and the world. Today, five years later: preparedness lessons from Katrina, five years later: storm’s death toll still a mystery, court rules against campaign trying to skirt Illinois disclosure laws and more.

Four larger nonprofits share what they learned from their experiences.

The New Orleans Katrina Memorial Corporation is responsible for building a Katrina monument, in which the bodies of  31 unnamed dead and 54 unclaimed bodies have been placed in granite-faced mausoleums.

A federal judge in Chicago has ruled that The Center for Individual Freedom had to comply with Illinois' laws requiring public disclosure on expenditures for political campaigns.

Under an experiment that's getting help from Citizen Schools, a national nonprofit, officials are hoping an extended school day will lead to improved test scores in two schools that are among the worst performers in the state.

A social enterprise blogger has issued a three-part defense and promotion of low-profit limited-liability corporations.

Nonprofit news from around the country and the world. Today, five years later: a richer, whiter New Orleans, nonprofits that clothe foster and homeless children win free rent, Detroit Symphony musicians may strike and more.

Part of the City's recovery strategy is to attract a "creative class" to replace the 100,000 or so poor people who were displaced by the storm and haven't returne.

Because the owner of a struggling office park in Ormond Beach, Fla., couldn't find a suitable commercial tenant to take up his offer of free rent for a year, the space instead went to two nonprofits.

The musicians are rejecting a proposed 34 percent cut to their salaries.

Just when you think the social safety net can't get shredded any more comes a disturbing report that growing numbers of local governments are ditching publicly run hospitals.