non-profits

A couple of years ago, 41-year-old Shine Adams, a recovering alcoholic, started a small nonprofit in Lawrence to help people down on their luck.Before…

When President Dwight Eisenhower started People to People International, he envisioned everyday people from around the world coming together to form…

Ord, Nebraska, with its population of 2,000, sits between corn fields and ranches on the North Loup River, in the middle of the state.Downtown, its…

Kansas City might be an unusual place to headquarter an international organization that helps bring clean water to people around the world. A chat with…

Attitudes about hospice and palliative care have changed dramatically over the last 40 years, and the number of patients who receive this type of…

Two sham cancer charities that allegedly scammed nearly $76 million from consumers will be dissolved, their president banned from charity fundraising and…

A majority of American veterans, both able-bodied and wounded, say they want to continue to serve after fighting overseas. TIME Magazine’s Joe Klein…

Charitable giving in the United States rose for the fifth consecutive year in 2014 and now exceeds $358 billion. Many individuals and organizations are…

On September 15, members of the Tiny House Collective KC, a non-profit that supports people building homes of less than 1,000 square feet, became…

Natasha Kirsch was volunteering at an alcoholic and addict recovery home when the idea—and a well-timed phone call — came to her.Sitting in the business…

Getting a job can be tough--even impossible-- when you've been in prison. On this edition of Up to Date, we talk with a Lawrence man who started the…

Officials with Guadalupe Centers, Inc. are lining up inspections and applications with an eye to converting the 19-acre St Paul School of Theology from an…