Apparently PBS’ Sesame Street has parted ways with longtime sponsor McDonald’s.

Nonprofit news from around the country and the world. Today, Health centers and abortion, getting back foreclosed homes, Sean Hannity’s “Charity”, Farm Aid, and more.

A proposal being floated by city workers negotiating over their pay with San Francisco officials is not going to win many supporters from the nonprofit community. 

Wow, it’s been a quarter century since the Farm Aid concert of 1985 meant to provide help to family farmers, but Farm Aid is going to gin up another concert again for its 25th anniversary. 

Most charity donations from product manufacturers require you to make a purchase with the understanding that a portion of the proceeds will be given to a worthy cause. But how about simply earning money for charity by looking at a product?

Things have a long way to go before nonprofit groups can start returning to business as it used to be and it also looks like things are not getting much better for people who are depending on these groups to help them.

Fox talk jock Sean Hannity is being criticized from the right on his role in a nonprofit called the Freedom Alliance. 

Thanks to a trio comprising a nonprofit lender, a housing advocacy organization, and a group of volunteer law students, some lucky residents in the Boston area are ending up back in their homes.

Even before the President signs the health care bill on Tuesday, 12 states are threatening to sue the federal government for imposing new Medicaid requirements to provide health care coverage for pregnant women, children and disabled people who are currently uninsured.

Within the new health care reform legislation, the role of Community Health Centers is due to be expanded as a national system of primary health care providers.

It’s hardly news to anyone by now that ACORN, the nationally prominent community organizing network founded by Wade Rathke in 1970, is disbanding. ACORN’s shutdown could have been predicted, but not as a result of  the pimp and prostitute sting videos. The causes are deeper and we ignore the lessons learned at our own peril.

Nonprofit news from around the country and the world. Today, ACORN on brink of bankruptcy, NYC mayor stops giving, death of Tacoma nonprofit needs autopsy and more.