An Orlando, Fla., based charity, in business for less than a year, is cleaning up—on both donations and good works.

After the recent Supreme Court ruling removing limits on corporate spending on political campaigns, a lot of questions remain about what will be considered permissible—by and for whom—as well as publicly palatable.

The Maryland Legal Services Corporation, which passes along payments from Lawyers’ trust fund accounts to 35 local legal services offices, find their income from this source has plummeted 70 percent.

This study from PNC reveals that for the very wealthy, the recession is compelling them to cut back on their giving in order to protect their seven-figure or higher assets.

The blame-game is becoming increasingly evident as state legislatures and governors try to figure out how to put together their FY2011 budgets.

Four GOP senators have declared that without more information about how the Boys & Girls Clubs can account for paying CEO Roxane Spillett about $988,000 in 2008, they intend to halt a bill that would provide $425 million in federal funds to the youth-serving organization.

The political grandstanding in the House last week around earmarks made about as much sense as a lot of the rest of the political discourse in Washington lately.

Catholic Charities has now added a new provision to its personnel policies. It essentially tells all new employees—and existing employees as well in a way—that if they speak or act against the Catholic Church’s opposition to gay marriage, they risk being penalized or fired.

Legal scholar Laurence Tribe will lead an initiative under Attorney General Eric Holder that is charged with improving legal access for the poor.