Many people in South Sudan live in camps for the internally displaced after years of war.
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On top of boosting South Sudan’s development, these groups are showcasing what refugees can accomplish in the US.
American and Israeli flags above Jerusalem rooftops prior to President Trump’s May 2017 visit.
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Israel’s increasingly conservative policies on social and religious issues appears to be playing a role.
Overcrowding is harder to define than it may appear.
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New nonprofits don’t make the same impact everywhere. In most places, there’s enough money to go around to support new ones.
President Trump signed an executive order related to the Johnson Amendment in 2017.
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Deactivating the tax provision known as the Johnson Amendment could increase the flow of dark money, reducing accountability in campaign finance.
Students and community activists at Northeastern University called on the school to nix an ICE contract.
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Even when federal contractors stir public outrage, the government probably should be under fire.
Maria Butina, founder of a Russian gun group, allegedly infiltrated the Republican Party.
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The NRA may fund political candidates but only with cash from U.S. donors. The group could face serious consequences if, as news reports allege, it broke laws and rules.
H.F. ‘Gerry’ Lenfest, left, donated tens of millions of dollars to sustain Philadelphia’s newspapers.
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Without credible news and information, a healthy democracy is not possible.
Some U.S. nonprofits are praising China’s anti-pollution efforts.
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Just like with Cold War-era red-baiting, there’s an apparent effort to discredit and undermine critics of the US government.
Charitable giving hit record levels in 2017.
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Total gifts from individual donors are rising, at least for now.
Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin, front, after she signed a law that allows pay-for-success funding for projects aiming to reduce female incarceration rates.
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These partnerships between investors, governments and nonprofits are a new way to pay for programs and services that help people in need and address intractable problems like mass incarceration.
Great minds don’t always think alike.
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Thinking about philanthropy in a more complex way may help donors do more good.
Few shelters will accommodate homeless people with pets.
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People may not have a criminal record before they become homeless, but they likely will afterward due to laws intended to keep people with nowhere to go out of sight.
Eric, Don Jr., Ivanka and Donald Trump.
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The Donald J. Trump Foundation allegedly violated charitable norms and laws.
Women with children in their arms protested the separation of families seeking protection at U.S. borders, as DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen addressed a Senate subcommittee.
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Simply based on how they are housed, forcibly separating immigrant kids from their families is bound to make a bad situation worse.
Salvadorans have been fleeing violence in their communities for years.
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As a pediatrician, I’m not letting State Department warnings stop me from leading surgical missions.
Charitable gifts may do double duty when politics is in the picture.
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Big business influences politicians in many ways. One little-recognized channel is the money companies and their foundations give the nonprofits politicians like.
Riot police drill outside Saint Petersburg’s new soccer stadium ahead of the 2018 World Cup in Russia.
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After a series of debacles, many metropolitan areas no longer want their leaders to vie for these opportunities.
Members of the tea party movement seen rallying outside the Capitol in 2013.
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The tax agency, as it happens, singled out both conservative and liberal groups seeking tax-exempt status for extra scrutiny. But the myth that it picked on the tea party movement hasn’t gone away.
The late Sen. Ted Kennedy, reading from “A Nation of Immigrants,” a book by his brother, President John F. Kennedy.
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Changes to the official mandates guiding nonprofits and government agencies might be less significant than they appear.
Dogs can become as close to you as any other person – but are they ‘legal persons’?
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Most Americans identify as animal lovers and support either full or partial legal rights for animals.