Where Most Needed

Kentucky Forces Charity Founders to Fulfill Tsunami Pledge

With One Heart, Inc. founders Kelly Knight and Shelia Bayes agree to personally pay some overhead expenses after the organization claimed that 100% of contributions would directly benefit children. 

Charity Restaurants Trade Work for Food

One World Everybody Eats in Salt Lake City and SAME Cafe in Denver try out different social venture models for feeding those in need. 

Harvard Researchers: Back to Bigness

A historian of charities and a lawyer revive interest in charity organizations that combine national and grassroots perspectives in a federated structure. 

Fighting Hunger: In-Kind Becomes Unkind

A newly available report tracks the history of private food assistance programs in the US and the emergence of a network of food banks distributing tax-subsidized donations from the processed food industry—that now seem to be contributing to the epidemic of obesity among the poor. 

Salvation Army Embraces Centralized, Corporate Marketing

The largest charity in the US (in terms of private suport) ventures outside its comfort zone in the new century's fundraising environment. 

Creation Museum: Let There Be Loot

Having freed themselves from the bonds of both theology and science, the promoters of the museum (which is organized as a charity) seem mostly to be singing from the Walt Disney marketing hymnal.   

Serial Embezzler Burns Nonprofit on the Rebound

Less than six months after pleading guilty to forgery and receiving a suspended sentence, she went to work for a nonprofit and picked up where she left off. 

Museum in Transition Hit with Embezzlement

Turn-around plan hits a pothole but the new leadership maintains a confident air and are conducting an internal investigation without involving the police. 

Palm Springs Crisis Center Locked Out

Hand-to-mouth operation suffers the consequences of bouncing a rent check because a donation hadn't cleared the bank. 

Arts Advocates Angle for a Bigger Slice of the Pie

Report from a conference held last fall lays out a strategy for turning around the decline in private giving, but it could be that the arts and culture have become less dependent upon philanthropy.  And the first communication effort coming out of the conference may have backfired, if press reports are any indication.