Social Service/Public Welfare/Human Services

After millions of dollars poured in for survivors of the Pulse shooting, some nonprofit groups in Central Florida are struggling to collect donations they need to operate. "We're grateful for Pulse recovery efforts," said Robyn Maynard, founder of Libby's Legacy Breast Cancer Foundation. "We were part of it ourselves, but now we're struggling." Libby's Legacy…

Tragedy has hit Haiti—again. Local officials put the death toll from Hurricane Matthew above 1,000, and a cholera epidemic is likely to drive that number higher. At the center of the devastation, in the rural western part of the country, homes have been shredded by fierce winds and crops have been wiped out. Residents, who…

You might think it sounds impossibly hard to do, but a man from Charlotte, N.C., managed to donate all his clothes to charity by mistake. Matthew Hager was trying to rid his clothes of possible bed bugs by putting them in black trash bags and placing them on his porch in the heat. However, when he…

“Neither food nor people should ever go to waste.” This is the motto that Robert Egger has fully lived up to at LA Kitchen, his self-sustaining social enterprise that was built around the premise of transforming bruised, overripe fruits and vegetables into amazing, balanced meals for the elderly and other people in need. In the…

This idea may just hold water. Art Agnos, who served as mayor of San Francisco during the late '80s and '90s, offered up an unconventional solution to homelessness in an op-ed in SF Gate on Thursday. He suggested retrofitting an old Navy ship into a temporary shelter until enough permanent housing is made available for…

While Baton Rouge, La., nonprofit organizations scramble to help meet the needs of flood victims, they also are grappling with a longer term problem: How to raise the money that is so critical to their sustainability in a community that has been devastated by the recent disaster? So far, there is no clear-cut solution. But…

Amber Heard is donating the entirety of her settlement money from Johnny Depp to charity, the actress said in a statement on Thursday. "As described in the restraining order and divorce settlement, money played no role for me personally and never has, except to the extent that I could donate it to charity and, in…

Bill Gates is the most generous man in the world. As of 2015, his lifetime giving total stood at $27 billion, more than the individual gross domestic products of 88 different countries and $6.5 billion more than the next highest individual giver, Warren Buffett. So when Bill Gates wants to give your impoverished country a whole bunch of chickens, you take them. Unless you're Bolivia. Bolivia is having none of that chicken business...

Not long ago, the African country Malawi was a donor darling. Being dirt poor and ravaged by AIDS, it was needy; with just 17 million inhabitants, a dollop of aid might visibly improve it. Better still, it was more-or-less democratic, and its leader, Joyce Banda, was welcome at Westminster and the White House. In 2012,…

At first glance, the National Vietnam Veterans Foundation is a roaring success. According to its tax filings, the charity has received more than $29 million in donations from generous Americans from 2010 to 2014 for what it calls on its website "aiding, supporting and benefiting America's veterans and their families." But look a little closer…