The Salvation Army is distributing 3,000 jackets insulated with shredded newspapers to homeless people in Canada this winter.

One of the nation’s leading philanthropies, the Picower Foundation, announced that it was shutting down.

Around the country, nonprofits are reeling from the Madoff scandal.

Around the country, nonprofits are reeling from the Madoff scandal.

The work performed by the cleaning company Kärcher on the Space Needle in Seattle in only one of the many examples of corporate philanthropy.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. plans to give more than 90 million pounds of fresh food annually to the nation’s largest nonprofit organization addressing hunger, Feeding America.

The fallout from the financial crisis is striking nonprofit groups and charities fast and hard.

The Salvation Army is experimenting with a plastic alternative for people who do not have cash to throw in a holiday red kettle.

Bono, the activist, philanthropist and U2 front man, has been invited to write an Op-Ed page column for The New York Times.

Big foundations have been damaged by the turmoil on Wall Street, receiving fewer gifts or seeing some of their stock holdings lose value.