Non-Profit News

From the time Nevada's namesake battleship, the USS Nevada, was launched in 1914, it has held a special place in the hearts of the state's residents.

The closure Wednesday is the first of an advocacy group by Correa's government, which has been criticized as hostile to free expression and has broadened state authority over nonprofits by decree this year.

Southwest Portland residents opposed to the sale of Water Bureau property to a developer are raising funds to hire an attorney.

The annual Holiday Express rides are underway again, thanks to the efforts of hundreds of volunteer train buffs.

Phil Collins, the former Genesis drummer whose earnest ballads made him a star in the 1980s, is penning songs again.

WGN Radio and its sister media - WGN and Chicago Tribune - raised some $800,000 for tornado relief for the Nov. 17 tornadoes.

The Sun Herald reports that the secretary of state's charity division found Gai Kaitlin Truong used the nonprofit's money to pay workers at her private, for-profit business and failed to justify at least part of her own nonprofit salary of $61,100 for 2012.

President Barack Obama prodded Congress to raise wages and secure the social safety as he issued an overarching appeal Wednesday to correct inequalities that he said make it harder for a child in the United States to escape poverty.

The British musician announced Wednesday in Miami Beach that his nonprofit will help South Florida children with artistic and athletic dreams to fulfill their potential.

An exhibit of photos taken by University of South Carolina students during a working visit to Africa is opening in Columbia.

The effort to get high-speed broadband in every school is getting a boost from the philanthropy of two technology gurus - Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg and Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates.

Marc Paulhus, program director of Pawsitive Service Dog Solutions, holds a chocolate lab puppy named Bosco, who is being trained to work with autistic children.

Walker founded the organization after witnessing deficiencies in local activations following the "With the passing of Paul, the world has lost a man who spent a great deal of his life in service to others.

Over the past few months, the New York Times has been running a series of articles investigating the rising cost of healthcare in U.S. hospitals .

Afghanistan, North Korea and Somalia are seen as the world's most corrupt countries while Denmark and New Zealand are nearly squeaky-clean, graft watchdog Transparency International has said in a survey.

Intelsat S.A. , the world's leading provider of satellite services, today provided an update on its satellite capacity and other critical connectivities being used in a number of restoration initiatives in the Philippines following Typhoon Haiyan.

TowerJazz , the global specialty foundry leader, today announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with Shanghai ICC, launching an exclusive partnership to offer Shanghai ICC's customers TowerJazz's technical and manufacturing capabilities using its mixed-signal CMOS and power technologies, while expanding TowerJazz's business ... (more)

JOHN FITZHUGH/SUN HERALD/FILEHabitat for Humanity volunteers work recently on a house.

With a healthy breakfast under his belt, Jon Underwood pulled out his smartphone to pay the cashier at River Cafe in Santa Cruz and in about a minute gets a text message saying he's just donated to his favorite local nonprofit organization.

As the holidays approach and our calendars become full, it can be hard to find time to give back to the causes you care about most.