Nonprofit news from around the country and the world. Today, TARP and community lending, house poor homeless shelters, new nonprofit journal’s bias is questioned, and more.

In Atlanta, one of the city’s biggest shelters, run by the Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless, is being foreclosed on by Ichthus Community Trust which just purchased the loan from two nonprofit lenders.

Last month saw the launch of The Fiscal Times, a nonprofit publication covering “U.S. fiscal, budgetary, and economic issues.” TFT is underwritten by Pete Peterson, the Wall Street mogul with a questionable agenda of his own.

Nonprofit homeless shelters may soon get a small break in Washington state as the House Revenue and Taxation Committee voted to waive the state’s 6% sales tax for these groups until 2012.

New legislation would allow taxpayers to write off charitable donations to Haiti earthquake relief efforts when they file their 2009 taxes this spring.

Call this the charitable deduction acceleration legislation. In late January President Obama signed into law legislation designed to encourage more giving to the relief effort in Haiti. This isn’t unprecedented. After the Southeast Asian tsunami in 2004 similar legislation was passed. Increasing charitable aid to Haiti is a noble goal, but is an accelerated charitable deduction for donations to earthquake relief efforts good public policy?

Yes, go right up to someone you don’t know. Introduce yourself. Say hi. Engage in conversation. This isn’t rocket science. And it isn’t a promo about your agency. It’s a conversation.

When things get heated, turn to Dr. Conflict. We do!

Nonprofit news from around the country and the world. Today, the aid industry in Haiti, stalking the nonprofit hospital, and Pepsi out of the Superbowl ads in favor of charity . . . and uh, marketing.

We look at the British Lancet‘s editorial take on the disaster relief NGOs functioning in Haiti.

There have been a number of articles recently that suggest that 2010 will not be an easy year for nonprofit hospitals—this one is particularly vivid.

Instead of spending the $33 million it spent last year on Superbowl ads, this year Pepsi has launched a social media campaign to give $20 million to nonprofits.