Egypt is my second home.  I have walked Tahrir and its streets so many times as a student and then as a professional. I know every building I have seen on television. So many memories …

Nonprofits represent $1.1 trillion in annual economic spending, the third-largest portion of the economy after the wholesale and the retail trades. Nonprofits of all types represent about 10 percent of national employment, a portion that …

This week, Giving USA Foundation released its 2007 report on philanthropy in America. The bottom line appears to be that, relative to 2005, giving in 2006 was stable in inflation adjusted terms, but up 4.2% if 2005 disasters are netted out (fairness aside, since one would need to do that for all disaster years if comparisons would be accurate, this does not seem all that striking since year-over-year rates of growth have exceeded 4% in 5 of the last ten years anyway).