Non-Profit News

Maddie's Fund, a foundation that aims to save dogs and cats, scrapped its plan to build a state-of-art, 90,000-square-foot animal shelter in a Pleasanton office building.

Good music x a good cause! Country star Jerrod Niemann has unveiled his new nonprofit charity, Free the Music USA , dedicated to collecting used instruments and giving them to children in need.

A Habitat for Humanity official says that gunfire and gang graffiti are hurting the nonprofit's efforts to build homes for people in a central Georgia city.

CARS Inc. and others in the CDFI industry hope that making financial data easier to obtain will spur more people to invest in the sector.

The survey found that a vast majority of Americans, 84 percent, mistakenly base their life or death evacuation decisions on the hurricane category and/or wind speed.

The appeals court says the requirement violates the free speech rights of companies that must inform the Securities and Exchange Commission and publicize on their websites that any of their products have not been found to be free of mineral conflicts.

Restaurants across Rhode Island will be participating in Dining Out for Life, Thursday, April 24, benefitting AIDS Project Rhode Island.

The Internal Revenue Service is prepared to rewrite a proposed rule regulating the political activities of nonprofit groups to address complaints from the right and left that it goes too far, IRS Commissioner John Koskinen said Monday.

National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden says giving the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service to those who reported on the U.S. government's sweeping surveillance efforts is "vindication."

Hazel Donnelly was taking her husband to the doctor when they got a call that their apartment building was on fire.

JC AMBERLYN/Miner Fire Prevention Specialist Mac Nelson and Battalion Chief Bill Johnston, both of the Kingman Fire Department, demonstrate the use of FIDO equipment with a reluctant participant.

The National Endowment for the Humanities recently announced that they will provide a three-year grant to enable archaeologists at Monticello - the home of Thomas Jefferson, near Charlottesville, Virginia - to collaborate with the home of Andrew Jackson, called The Hermitage , near Nashville, Tennessee.

Within hours of the U.S. government's unprecedented release last week of a trove of Medicare billing data, a small fraternity of lawyers who specialize in representing whistleblowers in healthcare fraud cases began to mobilize.

Ever had an opinion about Muslim women ? I bet you did! Well here is another example of Muslim women that shaped history.

I attended the Tallahassee Democrat's celebration of the 25 Women You Need to Know for 2014 and at some point in the evening became almost completely speechless.

Twenty-two nonprofit groups in eastern Nebraska and western Iowa are benefiting from $4.2 million in grants from the Iowa West Foundation.

The founders of a Miami-based tech company have been chosen by the global nonprofit group Endeavor to be on their list of high-impact entrepreneurs.

All Breed Rescue founded in 1996 is a 501c3 non profit organization. They are located in South Burlington, VT and are dedicated to saving dogs regardless of age, breed, health or behavioral condition from high-kill shelters in the South and placing them in loving homes in Vermont.

On the islands of Hawaii, public officials face a unique problem in maintaining the tsunami sirens.

After legislation controlling privately funded travel for members of Congress was passed in 2007, in the wake of an influence-peddling scandal, the number of such trips dropped by two-thirds.