Thousands of Liberians took part in a June 2019 protest against President George Weah.
Reuters/James Giahyue
Depending on foreign aid to pay the bills makes moving on when it’s gone harder.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, center, signs a bill that creates a new voucher program for thousands of students to attend private schools using taxpayer dollars.
Lynne Sladky/AP
Research over the past few years has shown vouchers for private schools set back student learning. So why are advocates still pushing so hard to expand them?
Michael Bloomberg, Robert F. Smith and MacKenzie Bezos are among the big givers making headlines.
AP Photo/Elise Amendola; Reuters/Lucy Nicholson; AP Photo/Dennis Van Tine
As the debate over what ails philanthropy heats up, the questions are going beyond whether massive charitable donations help or hurt society.
Big charitable endeavors are bringing her priorities into focus.
Reuters/Danny Moloshok
Some, like Melinda Gates and Priscilla Chan, became affluent through marriage. Others, like Oprah Winfrey, earned fortunes on their own.
Throngs of Santa Barbara News-Press readers, rallying in 2006.
AP Photo/Michael A. Mariant
The health of American democracy could be at stake.
JFK shaking hands with one of the first Peace Corps volunteers in 1961.
P Photo/William J. Smith
No matter how well-intentioned, volunteers who may be inexperienced can’t solve the entrenched and complex social problems low-income communities endure.
Attorney General of New York Letitia James has launched a probe of the NRA.
AP Photo/Seth Wenig
More likely dangers include administrative hassles and fines.
Former NRA President Col. Oliver North.
AP Photo/Michael Conroy
The group’s bottom line has been shaky for years. And its board has been unwilling or unable to respond.
Migrants who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border near McAllen, Texas, in March 2019.
AP Photo/Eric Gay
Travel along the U.S.-Mexico border and meeting migrants can build empathy for people without papers.
Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo.
AP Photo/John McConnico
Congress can fix this by updating the tax code.
About a million Rohingya refugees are living in Bangladesh.
AP Photo/Dar Yasin
It’s not necessarily because of Islamophobia.
Assembling backpacks of food for students to take home in Flint, Mich.
Kathleen Payton/Food Bank of Eastern Michigan
Backpack programs that give students easily prepared foods, like boxed macaroni and cheese and canned beans, can make a difference.
A Special Olympics basketball clinic in Charlotte, N.C. in January 2019.
AP Photo/Chuck Burton
The White House proposed these cuts for three years in a row. That clashes with longstanding bipartisan leadership regarding rights for all people with disabilities.
US demonstrators who favor and oppose stricter gun laws, in 2018.
AP Photo/Steven Senne
Legislators in a growing number of democracies are clamping down on civil society. In the United States, it’s happening at the state level.
Habitat for Humanity homeowner Keosha Hendricks cuts a ceremonial ribbon, in La Vergne, Tenn.
Laura Roberts/Invision
A study that compared Habitat for Humanity affiliates found that what nonprofits are doing may matter more than how much they’re spending.
Anti-opioid protest at the Harvard Art Museums, which the Sackler family has supported with charitable gifts.
Jon Shaffer
There are limits to what charities can do now about past donors who are accused of morally reprehensible behavior.
Carol Folt, the next president of the University of Southern California.
AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes
New systems with stricter rules would make it easier to hold colleges and universities accountable on behalf of the taxpayers who support them.
Many people aided by the campus admissions scheme wanted to attend the University of Southern California.
AP Photo/Reed Saxon
There is no system in place to detect charitable fraud on the scale allegedly committed by a counseling company and its sham nonprofit.
Donald Trump spoke at AIPAC’s annual conference during his 2016 presidential campaign.
(AP Photo/Evan Vucci
The American Israeli Public Action Committee has managed to work with Democrats and Republicans alike. Will that change now that Israel has tacked to the right?
Tom Stewart fought to bring the sexual abuse that he endured as a Boy Scout to light.
AP Photo/Ted S. Warren
These reorganizations may provide roadmaps for other nonprofits to follow if they face abuse allegations in the #MeToo era.