Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has proposed a “crisis-mode arts budget” in L.A., cutting spending by 24.8 percent, outsourcing public endeavors to nonprofits, and moving already granted funds to cover some of his own earmarks.

It’s hard to say how often it happens because few organizations are willing to talk about it when it does, but the Metropolitan Opera of New York City claims it’s not the only institution that’s had to tap restricted funds in its endowment to cover expenses.

When a local paper publishes a story about a nonprofit college wanting to buy and renovate a bankrupt hotel in downtown Worcester, Mass., many readers respond with a resounding “no.”

Groups on the left and right are finding common cause in their opposition to legislation that would require disclosures of organizations that donate money to underwrite political ads on television.

The Frogtown neighborhood in St. Paul, Minnesota, is one of those neighborhoods whose decades of neighborhood development progress has been slammed by the subprime crisis.

The New York Society Library is embroiled in a presidential scandal that leaves them out $100,000.

New disclosures about strings attached to a plan by a group of private foundations to pay for raises and bonuses to teachers in Washington, D.C. public schools have added one more layer of complexity to a recently negotiated contract with the teachers’ union.