Thousands of dollars were willed to an animal shelter in Collinsville. Which one? Now that’s the doggone problem.

Massachusetts Senate candidate Gabriel Gomez has a lot going for him. But he stands accused of trying to avoid tax payments using a pretty shady trick.

Criminals are increasingly using the “famously opaque art market” to launder and transfer illegally obtained cash around the world.

The IRS’s inquiry into higher education has compliance implications for all nonprofits.

Bad choice of words, or unguarded and exuberant misogyny?

Louisiana Governor Jindal’s plan to use public dollars to send students to private schools has been ruled unconstitutional.

In Frederick, MD, says one advocate, money is being shifted from need to need, leaving problems to pop up again and again as funding is advanced and withdrawn.

Can there be greater strength in fewer numbers for Jewish communities that are no longer able to support separate houses of worship for each of their sharply divided denominations?

Even though the budget deficit makes the General Assembly hungry for revenue, this solution is wrong for the people and for the state.

The General Manager Charities at the NZ Department of Internal Affairs declares that advocacy of “a controversial point of view is a political purpose.”

Sara Blakely, the Founder of Spanx, joins the billionaire charity club, and vows to invest in other women.

The IRS increased estimates of unrelated business income for 90 percent of the institutions, totaling an additional $90 million in income, while disallowing over $170 million in claimed unrelated business losses.

NPQ would love to hear what its readers who know mental health treatment think about this new development.

If you’re not in the mood to pore over a 568-page tome from the Ways and Means Committee on alternative approaches to tax reform, Nonprofit Quarterly hits the highlights. There aren’t many. 

A recent Washington Post – ABC News poll suggests that most Americans think the ban on gays in scouting should be lifted altogether, reflecting rapidly shifting public opinion on gay rights issues overall.

Joan Hecht’s work with the Lost Boys of Sudan reminds us of the continuing tragedy of the Darfur region of the Sudan and the inadequate responses of other countries—including our own. 

The administrator of One Fund Boston faces the impossible task of deciding who among those injured by the Boston Marathon bombing will receive money.

How much would you give for a portrait of your favorite Pokémon?

PBS is making the sequester more accessible through its regular coverage. Nonprofit Quarterly supplements their efforts with other sources beginning to report on sequestration’s real-life, human impact.

Billionaire philanthropy is all the rage but where might we look for this exotic but elusive breed of super-rich folk? NYC is still the most favored habitat but Moscow is close behind. 

Our fingers were singed from this remarkable piece of investigative reporting about the Adelaide L. Sanford Charter School in Newark, New Jersey, and its founder, Fredrica Bey.

A clever advertisement sends two different messages to the viewer based on their height, aiming to reach youth impacted by child abuse.

Health Care for America Now takes drug firms and the U.S. government to task for failing to rein in costs while their executives took home salaries comparable in size to whole nonprofits.

Did Nancy Brinker’s leadership performance merit increased income? And what’s her role in Susan G. Komen for the Cure, anyway? Wasn’t she supposed to be stepping down?

Under the leadership of its new CEO, the Heritage Foundation issued a hardline report against immigration reform. Heritage’s allies on the right think the report stinks.

One BSA-chartered group does not accept the compromise position proposed to allow gay young people to remain involved in scouting.

Howard Husock says that preventing future calamities like the Rana Plaza collapse in Bangladesh should be addressed by improving government, rather than corporate manufacturers. We say he’s half-right.

Although they showed a surplus last year and their revenue has increased quite significantly, leadership instability, continued demerits from audits and problems in meeting publicized goals have added to the troubles of this controversial organization.

Nonprofit Quarterly was present for a donors-only discussion of the pressing topic of philanthropic programs addressing veteran’s issues We present our impressions of the event.

Nonprofit Quarterly continues its coverage of the Sanford Health/Fairview Health Services merger attempt, investigating the potentially improper linkage between Sanford and the entity that bears his name.