Non-Profit News

DECEMBER 9, 2013: Marla Williams, President and CEO of Community First Foundation, speaks during a Colorado Gives Day rally on the west steps of the Colorado State Capitol in Denver, Co on December 9, 2013.

A Purple Heart recipient from Prior Lake will get the 15,000th grant awarded by the Minnesotans' Military Appreciation Fund.

An ambitious project that aims to send volunteers on a one-way trip to Mars unveiled plans for the first private unmanned mission to the Red Planet Tuesday, a robotic vanguard to human colonization that will launch in 2018.

Sex between consenting homosexual partners is once again illegal in India after the country's Supreme Court overturned a lower court ruling Wednesday.

In the 1990s, a professor at a medical university in Stockholm decided to test his students' knowledge about the progress of global development.

Elizabeth Patty doesn't have a skeleton in her closet, but she does have something almost as vexing: a stash of party dresses she'll never wear again.

Washington state and Minnesota were the only states that got an A from the Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute.

"The growth in online giving during #GivingTuesday exceeded everyone's expectations," said Steve MacLaughlin, director of the Idea Lab at Charleston, S.C.-based Blackbaud.

Rob Cox of Sandy Hook Promise meets with The News-Times editorial board on Thursday, Nov. 21, 2013.

Victoria Choate, of Livermore, a former beneficiary of Tri-Valley Haven's services and now a volunteer at the Buena Vista Thrift Store, organizes donated clothing at the thrift store in Livermore on Nov. 22, 2013.

The Kronk Gym Foundation has announced plans to open a recreational facility in Detroit to honor the late Emanuel Steward.

The Indiana Chamber of Commerce said the state has already made progress on a set of long-range goals drawn up last year at a Chamber-coordinated economic development session.

A 1991 report tracked down by DeSmogBlog from the University of California-San Francisco's Legacy Tobacco Documents reveals that the State Policy Network was created by the American Legislative Exchange Council , raising additional questions over both organizations' Internal Revenue Service non-profit tax status.

The Educational Program Innovations Charity Society of North Sydney was recognized as one of the best-run non-profit social service agencies in the country.

As the new year draws closer, you are probably seeing an increase in requests for charitable donations.

FEELING FESTIVE AT GLORY COMMUNITY: Glory Community residents David Myers, right, and Mark Hembd make Christmas cards on Friday.

Trainer Jenny Nickelson, right, of Dogs for the Deaf, laughs with Linda Brown of Kennewick while working with Jojo, Brown's new aid dog.

For four years he's been running Good Karma Bikes, an innovative San Jose-based social enterprise that is empowering the homeless through bicycles.

Chris van der Honert, left, and Doug Vidulich, bring donated food up from the basement to the main floor at Boulder's Emergency Family Assistance Association.

Harmony At Home has received donations from the following: $15,000 from the Monterey Peninsula Foundation, $5,000 from the Ralph Knox Foundation and $1,500 from the Northern California Chapter of American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.