It’s getting harder and harder these days to figure out who are the real victims of the Madoff scam.

Small nonprofit theaters can ride a precipitous edge, staging productions that would be deemed far too experimental or disturbing for mainstream theaters. This story, though, nearly brought me to tears.

Conservative philanthropy’s counterpoint to the purportedly liberal-leaning Council on Foundations is the Philanthropy Roundtable, headed by Adam Meyerson. In an interview in the politically conservative magazine, Reason, Meyerson lays out his vision and concerns for the nonprofit sector.

The U.S. State Department is creating its own nonprofit.

Three California officials responsible for prescription-drug spending for low-income patients are under fire for letting nonprofit groups that receive money from pharmaceutical companies that do business with the state pay their travel to drug industry conventions and conferences.

It’s great that the U.S. Department of Agriculture is taking steps toward fixing some of the nation’s problems with moving stimulus funding.

A judge, acting on a 2003 petition by a legal services group, Disability Advocates, has ordered that people currently in the adult homes be transitioned to supported housing as quickly as possible.

Probably the only thing that’s surprising about a New York Times story about states and cities threatening to revoke tax exemptions for charities around the country is . . . what took them so long?

A Marquette law school professor reads the last rites to the idea of public campaign financing.

Family members who hold a minority interest in a San Diego-based company are suing founder Ernest Rady to stop him from giving $21 million in company funds to a hospital that now bears his name.