Plans to build the $15 million school have been abandoned amid criticism of what auditors called $3.8 million in outlandish expenditures.

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Madonna’s Charity Fails in Bid to Finance School

The Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation has been so slow in paying for the upkeep of horses that scores have wound up neglected, according to interviews and inspection reports.

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Ex-Racehorses Starve as Charity Fails in Mission to Care for Them

Since 2005, the average amount of time PBS member stations devote to on-air pledge drives has increased by 9 percent, with some stations running the special shows for 10 weeks a year.

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In Tight Times, PBS Leans on Pledge Drives

Corporations are restricted in making contributions to Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. But they can give whatever they like to the foundation set up by his wife.

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Wife’s Charity Offers Corporate Tie to a Governor

Board members of Smile Train have complained to the New York attorney general about an unusual financial structure that will come from the merger.

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Opposition Arises to Charities’ Merger

More readers responded than in the year before, with 10,457 donors giving $6,061,024 to the 99th campaign.

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The Neediest Cases: A Season of Giving Motivates Donors in Greater Numbers

More readers responded than in the year before, with 10,457 donors giving $6,061,024 to the 99th campaign.

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The Neediest Cases: A Season of Giving Motivates Donors in Greater Numbers

A project is trying to change how students are taught and tested in a country where rote memorization is the norm.

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Skipping Rote Memorization in Indian Schools

The Internal Revenue Service is cracking down on a category of tax-exempt organizations.

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I.R.S. Attacks Abuses by Charity Support Groups

Just like billionaires who donate to public schools, donors want transparency and accountability from educators.

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Donors Demanding a Bigger Voice in Catholic Schools

A Brooklyn man who endured an eight-year descent into crack cocaine addiction has been sober for four years.

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Kicking Cocaine, and Reconnecting With Life

Alex Bebeshko, a former refugee, overcame the challenges of immigrant life to graduate from Fordham University. He now wants to work with the Russian-speaking Jewish community.

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The Neediest Cases: A Ukrainian Immigrant Reconnects With His Roots

Patricia Walsh, 58, augments her $720 monthly disability benefit with the meager money she makes collecting bottles and cans.

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The Neediest Cases: Recycling, as a Means to Survive

Donations to the Salvation Army in the Washington area have fallen 15 percent below last year’s in the first two weeks of its Christmas season bell-ringing campaign, group officials said.

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Giant Limits Salvation Army Ringing

Michael Kallon fled Sierra Leone and Liberia and received citizenship and asylum in the United States. But his troubles did not end in West Africa.

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The Neediest Cases: Survivor of African Rebel Raids Struggles in New Life