Non-Profit News

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.

Whistler may have had sub-zero temperatures this week, but the stars didn't mind, and still strutted their stuff for the cameras at the Whistler Film Festival.

Craig Witcher is no longer looking to help save on taxes -- he's looking to help save lives.

A receptionist who answered the phone at the foundation said Cooper had resigned Friday morning.

A former top aide to President Barack Obama is returning to the White House to co-ordinate policy aspects of the health care law.

Julio Arellano, right, and others participate in a tai chi class at the Asian Counseling and Referral Service in Rainier Valley.

Tana Hogan, Elijah Family Homes program administrator, right, talks with client Jenny Vasquez and her daughter, Eryn Nofiger, 18, during a recent visit to her Vasquez' Kennewick apartment.

Devon Liscum and brother Jeremy pose at a school in Mexico while helping out in the School of Champions program.

The fundraiser welcomes people who write a check of at least $75 to the charity of their choice.

"The hardest thing is coming up with the title of my major," Trawick, 19, told Ruth De Jesus, associate dean of intercultural advancement at Gettysburg College.

A mother and her pups awaits her flight. Volunteers at Van Nuys airport loaded over 400 animals onto 14 private planes so that they could go to new homes all over the Pacific Northwest.