DECATUR, Ala. (WHNT) — Homes in a Decatur neighborhood are taking on a new look after volunteers with the Community Action Partnership of North Alabama (CAPNA) spent this week helping revitalize the exterior of homes free of charge. CAPNA is dedicated to assisting low-income families. NWS Confirms EF-1 tornado in Franklin County Al. In a […]
A key advocacy group in conservative judicial activist Leonard Leo’s network paid millions to his consulting firm, a new filing shows, the latest example of Leo’s web of nonprofits sending money to his business amid government scrutiny of his dealings. The Concord Fund, a Virginia-based nonprofit, paid $6 million to Leo’s firm CRC Advisors between […]
For years, the expanding restaurant empire of Brian and Sarah Ingram became well-known for giving cash and food to people in need, including families of slain police officers or victims of catastrophes abroad, through their charitable arm: Give Hope. On Monday, Brian Ingram told the State Attorney General’s Office he’s dissolving Give Hope as a […]
GALLUP, N.M. (KRQE) – The family of a World War II Navajo veteran is getting a special gift. It’s all thanks to a local nonprofit and other service members. “I am so happy and blessed – blessed about this house I’m getting. It means a lot to me,” expressed Alvin Malone, a son of a WWII veteran. Alvin Malone […]
A new drug use recovery house is coming to a Dayton neighborhood early next year. OneFifteen, a nonprofit organization that focuses on helping people experiencing substance use disorders and combating the growing drug epidemic in America plans to build Hopeland House, its first recovery house in the Carillon neighborhood of Dayton. OneFifteen, founded in 2019, […]
Paul Fulton shown with a billboard the group Public Ed works has sponsored across the state. (Courtesy photo) For several decades in the late 20th and early 21st Centuries, North Carolina’s public education system was widely celebrated as an up-and-coming national model. And a key to that success was the deep and abiding support of […]
EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — Border Servant Corps (BSC) has announced through their Facebook account that their doors may close soon due to lack of federal funding. BSC, located in Las Cruces, New Mexico, is a faith-based nonprofit that provides temporary support for refugees and asylum seekers in Southern New Mexico and West Texas, according […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — In his bid to become North Carolina’s first Black governor, Republican Mark Robinson assails government safety net spending as a “plantation of welfare and victimhood” that has mired generations of Black people in “dependency” and poverty. But the lieutenant governor’s political rise wouldn’t have been possible without it. Over the past decade, […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — In his bid to become North Carolina’s first Black governor, Republican Mark Robinson assails government safety net spending as a “plantation of welfare and victimhood” that has mired generations of Black people in “dependency” and poverty. But the firebrand lieutenant governor’s political rise wouldn’t have been possible without it. Over the past […]
US gas utilities are partnering with one of the nation’s most trusted non-profits as part of a “cynical PR stunt” to combat efforts to curb fossil fuel usage, a Guardian investigation has found. Local Habitat for Humanity affiliates have teamed up with at least four utilities across 10 states to build “zero-net energy homes”, which […]
FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A Fresno community-based nonprofit organization has been awarded $9,000 from the Dollar General Literacy Foundation, a grant that aims to implement or expand new literacy initiatives, officials announced. The Fresno nonprofit that was awarded the grand is the SER-Jobs for Progress, Inc., San Joaquin Valley in Fresno, which aims to provide […]
The Des Moines Register dates its founding to July 26, 1849, when publisher Barlow Granger printed the first edition of the Iowa Star. We’ll be celebrating with special content throughout the month of July. We also want to recognize other longtime institutions that have contributed to the tapestry of life in Iowa, so we earlier […]