Where Most Needed

Private Philanthropy Puts Yale in the Drivers Seat in New Haven

Gleaming new campus buildings arise while the city's infrastructure crumbles around them. 

Boring Bus Ride Nets over $20,000 for Video Game Charity

A marathon online event using a mind-numbing simulation of a bus driving across the desert gets enough buzz to fuel four days of fundraising.  But your results may vary. 

GAO Tax Report Buys Into Charity Industry Myth

Thousands of nonprofit organizations owe nearly a billion in payroll taxes?  Truth is, a few multi-million-dollar scofflaws will account for most of the problem. 

Shriners: Bookkeeping for Clowns

New York Times finds lax controls in local Shrine clubs yielding little benefit overall for the Shriners Hospitals, which rely on a huge endowment and direct contributions. 

AT&T Classic: Charities Lost in the Rough

Federal filings leave doubts about how much charities benefit from this PGA tour golf tournament. 

Email Blasts Billion-Dollar IT Project at Nonprofit HMO

A project manager's rant focuses attention on problems with the conversion of the Kaiser system to electronic medical records. 

Big Charity Replaces Big Steel in Pittsburgh

Once the third-largest city for corporate headquarters, the change in Pittsburgh's economy to one dominated by charities has been confirmed.

Michigan Court Redefines Charity

High court rejected the idea of defining charity by the numbers, so health care facilities are charities even when they provide very little charity care.  What's important is access to all. 

Universities Want Pittsburgh to Beg For It

Eds and Meds (universities and hospitals) lobby to keep a system that shifts the burden of paying for city services to smaller charities (like the YMCA and the Little Sisters of the Poor).      

Homeless Dumping & The Wild World of LA Skid Row Charities

Proposals to criminalize the practice of discharging homeless hospital patients to the streets don't address the peculiar institutional structure of homeless support in Los Angeles.