Read our most popular recent Newswire here. A series of recent experiments has led researchers to suggest that it’s the poor, not the rich, who are more inclined to give to charity.

In Minneapolis, a once successful CDC, the Great Neighborhoods Development Corp., has been driven into bankruptcy because of the collapse of a $70 million commercial development project.

Even though it was technically OK for Colorado Governor Bill Ritter and his entourage to let a nonprofit underwrite a trade mission to Israel, critics say he probably shouldn't have allowed the group to pick up the tab.

The feints and strategems used by some medical institutions to prove their charitable bona fides are a little dubious.

This week Michigan Corps unveils plans to raise money from former residents willing to help the state recover from the damage wrought by the recession.

One of the philanthropic accomplishments of the Grateful Dead is the Rex Foundation, which was founded in 1983 to help people in the arts, sciences, and education.

With the impending 2010 Congressional and gubernatorial elections, we can now begin to monitor how nonprofits are created to support various candidates.

Compassion-motivated interns and AmeriCorps workers, like one young woman profiled in the article, discover that they can’t live on the low and lower levels of compensation they get in the nonprofit sector and have to find second jobs or “freelance work” to survive.

Michael Moore is setting up a fund to provide grants and training to theater operators willing to refurbish downtown movie houses, whose glory has long faded, and run them as nonprofits.