Three of the biggest names in U.S. pharmaceuticals are joining together to create an Asian-based nonprofit that aims to develop new medicines to treat the growing incidence of gastric and lung cancers in that part of the world.

A rose by another name still smells the same, but what about an ACORN?

Some nonprofits are handling the increase in health care costs by collectively purchasing insurance through the California Association of Nonprofits.

This month, the Obama Administration settled Pigford, the case that attempted to rectify decades of overt and documented systematic discrimination by the U.S. Department of Agriculture against black farmers.

Nonprofit news from around the country and the world. Today, the state of the states and nonprofit capacity, trucking deal fuels investigation into Oregon nonprofit, nonprofit network exposes mortgage scams and more.

Thanks to the United Way of Pennsylvania which released findings from their study on the lasting effects on state-contracted nonprofits of the state’s 101 day budget impasse of last year.

Officials are fuming over allegations that an Oregon-based nonprofit that promotes green energy helped a Texas trucking company win millions of dollars of tax credits to cut its fuel consumption but so far has failed to return any benefits to the state or its residents.

The Nonprofit Quarterly has long lauded the excellent work of many national and local nonprofits on the subprime mortgage foreclosure crisis.

According to Time magazine, a few books recently published in the UK described Prime Minister Gordon Brown as prone to “volcanic rages,” “lobbing mobile phones,” and “choice epithets.”

New York’s Governor David Patterson is proposing massive cuts to the public hospital system in his 2011 budget.

It’s no surprise that a British charity that promotes environmentally friendly burials is a big proponent of recycling.

The newswires are awash with reports that ACORN has gone under and dissolved, but ACORN itself says something somewhat different. ACORN has suffered some significant financial challenges in the wake of the pimp-and-prostitute video sting, the organization’s image and reputation took body blows that were not helped by unrelenting negative coverage on Fox News, and ACORN’s hard-to-find announcement of a positive and forthright plan for implementing independent recommendations left some observers hanging. It seems ACORN is down, but not officially out.