For every one mentally ill person in hospital in the U.S., there are more than three in prisons.
Nonprofit Newswire | Nonprofit Wants You To Know Some Paneful Truths
The National Trust for Historic Preservation is on a serious campaign to stop owners of old homes and historic buildings from replacing old windows with new ones for the sake of energy efficiency.
Nonprofit Newswire | Online Investigative Journalism: Is There a Sustainable Future?
The J-Lab at American University estimates that approximately $143 million in foundation grants has gone to news media enterprises since 2005, half of it to 12 investigative-oriented sites. It’s too early to declare these entities long term successes or failures.
Nonprofit Newswire | Political Report from Across the Pond
The UK’s nonprofit sector leadership organizations are moving quickly to meet with the new coalition government.
Nonprofit Newswire | May 13, 2010
Nonprofit news from around the country and the world. Today, volunteer artists get health care covered in trade, voters support nonprofits with ballot measure, Fidelity adding donors and dollars at unprecedented rate and more.
Nonprofit Newswire | INNOVATIVE! Volunteer Artists Get Health Care Covered in Trade
The artists accrue health care credits through performances or interactive programs for patients.
Nonprofit Newswire | Voters Support Nonprofits with Ballot Measure
Just when we were getting to be a little depressed at all of the local and state government attacks on nonprofits due to their tax exempt status, we found a positive nonprofit headline.
Nonprofit Newswire | Fidelity Adding Donors and Dollars at Unprecedented Rate
Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund announced that contributions in the first quarter of 2010 to the Gift Fund rose 109 percent compared to the same period last year—its best quarter ever.
Nonprofit Newswire | Why Do People Get Involved?
In response to his mother’s murder, a man joins a nonprofit that fights the death penalty.
Nonprofit Newswire | A Charitable Impulse with a Downside—Not Uncommon In Foreign Aid
James Sadler’s idea to donate a million shirts to Africa caused a bit of a backlash.
Nonprofit Newswire | Bloomberg Takes Aim at Watchdog Agency Again
In New York, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his City Council allies are taking aim at cutting the funding of the publicly funded Office of the Public Advocate.
Nonprofit Newswire | Palin’s Speaking Fees Still Subject of Controversy
Emails disclosed this week show that California State University Stanislaus was told to keep its mouth shut about how much the school’s foundation is paying the former vice-presidential candidate to speak at a June fundraiser.