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Even though Chicago is where Barack Obama got his start in politics, first lady Michelle Obama grew up and the Obamas still call their hometown, state and local officials aren't taking for granted that the Windy City will land the president's official library.

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has been appointed to advise New York on how to spend a proposed $2 billion for technology upgrades in schools.

The "Let's Give, Allen County" campaign celebrates the 100th anniversary of Community Foundations by helping five local nonprofit organizations make strides towards a specific dream.

Webster City Middle School has been approved as a Certified Common Sense School.

The lifetimes that brought a group of injured and wounded soldiers to a Joint Base Lewis-McChord writing program this spring contained the makings for many screenplays.

Newcastle firefighters participated in driver training for the recently purchased 2001 International 4700 rescue vehicle April 15. From left to right, firefighters Luke Velho, Zach Gilbert, Samantha Hatch, junior firefighter Miranda Meserve and firefighter Luke Kostenbader.

The donation follows Tutu's appearance as a special guest lecturer on a segment of ms The DTPF celebrates young people 17-22 who are changing the world as the next generation of peace makers in the U.S. The goal of the foundation is to teach one million young people the power of peace within, peace between, and peace among all people.

The association's name change and expansion comes after the recent closure of its Oklahoma City-based counterpart, the Mental Health Association of Central Oklahoma.

The Washington-based Tax Foundation says recent changes in New York law would raise the state's corporate tax climate ranking from 25th to fourth best in the nation, while inching its overall ranking from last place to 48th, ahead of New Jersey and California.

The former bookkeeper for a non-profit organization is accused of pocketing thousands of dollars after a two year investigation.

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."