Non-Profit News

Since his daughter Jessica was raped and murdered in 2005, Mark Lunsford has become one of America's best-known child advocates.

The reported success of gene therapy in treating two children with adrenoleukodystrophy brings hope to patients with the potentially crippling and fatal brain disorder and their families, says a nonprofit group that supports ALD research.

A wave of aging baby boomers is coming, and the Older Dominion Partnership is making sure Virginia is prepared.

Proposed charter high school campus plans at Marco's Mackle Park. - Proponents of a charter high school on Island are attempting to break new ground as they seek Marco's Mackle Park as the site of a new campus.

It's been 10 years since the Apache Software Foundation hung out its feather, creating what has become a series of communities filled with focused project entrepreneurs working on a laundry list of innovative efforts, one of which landed in the White House just a few weeks ago.

Texas billionaire and two-time presidential candidate Ross Perot has pledged $6.1 million to a private foundation to pay for programs at Fort Leavenworth's Command and General Staff College.

One New Jersey charity will cash in on a state lawmaker's plan to have residents collect his campaign signs.

Africans "should dare to imagine an African world not defined by the World Bank or the International Monetary Fund but one that comes out of Africa". This is necessary for Africans to grow out of dependence and become the agents of their own development.

For the past five years, the growing number of dead harbor porpoises washing up on California shores has puzzled biologists - until now.

When gynecologist Vishwas Yevale consigned his mother's ashes to India's Mutha River according to tradition, his family was more than unusually upset.

Hawaii would be allowed to opt out of key requirements of national health care reform legislation, the only state given such a privilege because it already has its own comprehensive health insurance law.

Environmentalists expressed outrage Thursday after a Mexican judge upheld a requirement that they post a $1.1 million bond to pursue a suit against a project to rebuild Cancun beaches with tons of sand extracted from the Caribbean.

Internet doesn't socially isolate users, study finds Submitted by SHNS on Thu, 11/05/2009 - 15:29 The study comes to the opposite conclusion: that people who use the Internet, instant messaging, mobile phones, photo sharing sites and social networks benefit from being more likely to have a larger, more diverse core of close confidants.

Helping Paws is a non profit organization placing service dogs with people with disabilities.

Share + Nov 4, 2009 9:32 pm US/Pacific SAN FRANCISCO A federal judge in San Francisco Wednesday temporarily blocked a planned 10 percent cut in state payments to group homes for foster children.

Marina Strauss M ountain Equipment Co-op, which has built its retailing reputation on a feel-good image of environmental and social responsibility, has ignited anger in an unlikely place the bicycle industry.

A nonprofit group that coordinates services to Maryland's developmentally disabled says state budget cuts have forced it to slash 74 jobs and scale back its work.

Write mm_head Write mm_summary Write byline Write byline ANDREW ZAJAC Reporting from Washington Write body In an effort to reduce the annual toll of deaths and serious problems caused by mistakes and misuse of prescription drugs and over-the-counter medications, the Food and Drug Administration is launching a new effort to identify the most serious ...

During these tough economic times, budget cuts are an unfortunate reality. That means important kids' programs everywhere, despite dedication and hard work, are getting scaled back or even eliminated.

The director of the non-profit organization Junior Achievement of Oklahoma has been arrested for child pornography.