The University of Michigan’s Bentley Library will be making a collection of Dr. Jack Kevorkian’s documents available for public viewing in an attempt to help people understand the contentious assisted-suicide advocate, “Dr. Death.”
Local community and neighborhood groups face a Goliath-like political landscape—yet, according to Berry, there is reason for optimism in city politics.
The news this week that the Indian charity founded by Mother Teresa will no longer offer adoption services mirrors actions taken by many faith-based U.S. adoption agencies in light of the recent Supreme Court decision upholding gay marriage.
Temporary art exhibits are popping up in a variety of nontraditional places, including airports, street corners, and sports stadiums.
So much bad news in the world today: mass shootings, refugee crises, poverty. But many ordinary people are responding in extraordinary ways to some of the big problems around them. They choose to help complete strangers, even at great cost to themselves. Their stories are part of Larissa MacFarquhar’s new book, Strangers Drowning: Grappling with Impossible
A union and a conservative nonprofit are both being sued by the Washington state attorney general for campaign finance violations in a battle over “Right to Work” campaigns. The AG even used identical language to describe his reasons for suing the various parties, albeit in different press conferences.
Investment in artists is key to how rural regions grow and attract people.
The Salvation Army has partnered with the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy to create the Human Needs Index, an online resource allowing nonprofits and policymakers to track changes in need across the country.
Eight Philadelphia area funders unite to create a pooled fund to support nonprofit collaboration and shared services, with the goal of enhancing mission delivery and eliminating duplication of efforts.
This week, Tennessee’s nonprofit health insurance CO-OP joined five others in going out of business this year due to constraints in the federal administration of the Affordable Care Act and to competitive challenges in the marketplace.
Not only is the Ebola crisis not yet over, the international response to Ebola revealed problems among many of the major institutional players, notably the World Health Organization.
Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson just issued a report that finds that the largest car donation enterprise in the country is little more than a self-dealing, profit-making enterprise.