Where Most Needed

Canada Cans the UNICEF Trick-or-Treat Box

While the US keeps the boxes and also promotes corporate tie-ins, a celebrity spokesperson, competitive fund raising, and a new line of greeting cards. 

The NY Times Picks Up the Chill on Muslim Charities

Charity giving in the month of Ramadan is way down in Dearborn, one of the most Muslim cities in the US.

A Survey: Rate the ACLU's Dueling Web Sites

Critics and supporters of the ACLU leadership have each put up web sites.  Here's your chance to rate their effectiveness as advocacy tools.

Machismo and the Microfinanciers

Muhammad Yunis won the Nobel peace prize for transforming the business of loan sharks into microcredit for poor women.  A new generation of (male) market-oriented investors could be reversing the process. 

Hawaii Foundation Selling Off Affordable Housing to Benefit School

Tenants in the 857 units are suing because the nonprofit owner wants to prepay its HUD mortgage to release it from a commitment to affordable rents, and a board member (son of the founder) is speaking out against it. 

What You Missed at The Nonprofit Congress (the what?)

Small nonprofits gather in Washington to affirm with a single voice:  support ME!

Vermont Home Health Plan Forshadows Changes in Charity

New arrangements to care for the elderly will be a contest between for-profit and charity models of service delivery.

Universities Fib about Campus Crime

A cross check with FBI statistics show how institutions fudge data to make themselves look good. 

Dissecting the Charity That Runs the US Organ Transplant System

Report says that the organization operates in secrecy and takes too long to move against hospitals that break rules and violate standards.

Human Rights Charities: Russia Baffles 'Em with Bureaucracy

Amnesty International and Johns Hopkins University, among other, miss deadline for NGO registration.  Groups are hampered by devious rules, like a requirement that the forms be completed in Russian and not submitted at the last minute.