Where Most Needed

Roger Clemens Foundation Could Use Some Juice

The pitcher's charity foundation stages a golf event and sells memorabilia, and a significant amount of grants go to places that aren't mentioned in the organization's web site.

UK's Version of the Charity Clothes Collection Scam

Gangs, often from Lithuania, use phony fliers or just boost clothes put out for collection, with impunity. 

Tvind's Planet Aid Making Inroads against Goodwill & Salvation Army

Their clothing collection boxes are popping up all over the country, along with local stories questioning where how the group operates and where the money goes.  To no avail. 

IRS Charts Charity Challenges

In response to a request by Sen. Charles Grassley, the IRS outline its efforts to deal with the changed landscape of charities (and charity abuses) in the United States. 

Voluntourists Are Considered Gawkers after Tahoe Fires

Every disaster site has to contend with the effects of convergence of people, of communications, and of material on an infrastructure that is already damaged by the disaster.   

Canvasback Missions Flips Gift Boats from Uncle Sam

Congress granted the Micronesia mission group a couple of Coast Guard cutters in 1999, but they quickly sold them.  We dive deep into the organization's tax filings and the authorizing legislation for more buried treasures. 

Corprate Thinking Pays Off for Executive of Winston-Salem Goodwill

IRS safe harbor rules enables the organization's board to award over a million to its retiring chief, who shut down charity projects while opening more retail stores.

Bridgespan Misses the Path to Greatness

Some major changes in the charity industry are revealed by data on 144 very successful start-ups since 1970. 

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. 

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.