Non-Profit News

Federal bus safety regulators said Thursday that they shut down 49 companies -- including one from Bridgeport -- in what they describe as a major nationwide crackdown on unsafe carriers.

A nonprofit organization is bringing live Christmas trees to some Marines at the New River Air Station.

Valerie Ervin, who became the first African American woman to serve on the Montgomery County Council when she was elected in 2006, is resigning to head a New York-based nonprofit group.

For those who've resolved to only spend their tourist cash in up-and-coming destinations with strong environmental and human rights records in 2014, nonprofit Ethical Traveler has taken care of the research for you.

Twelve months after this quiet, bucolic western Connecticut town was shattered by a gunman's bullets, it is struggling - but determined - to move forward.

Patrons of the Garden Home Community Library can revel in knowing their hyper-local source of knowledge and learning resources is considered at least on par with the largest library in the state.

Fifteen Long Term Recovery Groups have been set up throughout the state to assist survivors of Hurricane Sandy who have remaining unmet needs and limited options, the New Jersey Office of Emergency Management announced on Wednesday.

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.