It is that time of the decade, the decennial Census. If households don’t get counted accurately, federal funds tied to population-based distribution formulas won’t go to the communities where they are most needed.

Usually when you mention that something fishy is going on with nonprofits, it’s bad news. But that’s not the case this time.

In conjunction with the Obama Administration’s infusion of significant federal government capital into public school systems, it appears that one of the most vibrant components of the nonprofit sector is the collection of public foundations that have been created to solicit funds to supplement public school programs.

It’s not that unusual for a series of wise investments to keep paying off for some lucky charity after the death of a benefactor—like shares of stock that continue to rise and pay healthy dividends..

When a Minneapolis construction firm won contracts last June to weatherize homes with stimulus money it was thrilled, until it realized it couldn’t get a loan from a traditional bank to begin work.

On one hand, the outpouring aid for victims of the Haitian earthquake has been steady and generous. On the other hand, a number of the country’s leaders are unhappy with how the aid is being delivered and angry that they have little or no say how it is being used.

Continuing coverage of the Catholic Charities decision to deny spousal benefits for new employees in its DC operations is not a matter of picking on the agency, but identifying a particularly reprehensible action that nonprofits ought to say something about.

In response to the “More for Mission Campaign,” launched by the F. B. Heron Foundation of New York City and the Meyer Memorial Trust based in Oregon, the Annie E. Casey Foundation is going to pledge five percent of its assets for investment in mission-related social investments.

Judging from her modest—some say frugal—lifestyle, little did anyone expect that when she died last January, Alice Groner’s bequest to Lake Forest College would be worth $7 million.

Why should anyone be surprised that sex workers at Nevada’s Chicken Ranch, are planning to donate what the brothel’s Web site calls “items of a personal nature” for a charity auction?