Where Most Needed

Luking in the background is the obvious question: why not charge admission?

Execs struck gold with interests in for-profit marketing firms hired to promote the charities.

And we make our suggestions for really radical reporting reform. 

College students downloaded volumes of free music against the wishes of corporate copyright holders.  Now Wikipedia thrives by getting University Ph.D.s to upload content for free. 

Medical science is saving many more children's lives, but wish-granting charities go on raising as much as ever.

Audit of a small subgrant notes reporting flaws that lead to federal subpoenas from Defense, Health & Human Services, and the National Science Foundation. 

Food drives still sending the message that charity means giving the bare minimum. 

After a newspaper exposé and an FBI raid, a nonprofit strives to regain qualification for federal JWOD contracts to companies that employ severely disabled people. 

A 900 square foot workers home in Milwaukee becomes a university architecture project.

A number of other provisions potentially affecting charities are in a grab-bag tax reform bill. 

Bill Gates & Warren Buffett are countering a trend toward diminished charitable giving by America's wealthiest families. 

This Omaha story involving casino spending follows on the recent sentencing of a parish secreatry for gambling-related embezzlement.   Charities in states with legalized gambling need to take precautions.