The New York Times

May 13, 2009, The New York Times — Grilled shrimp and chicken Milanese for 3,200. Music by the Black Eyed Peas.

May 9, 2009, The New York Times — Despite hard times, many nonprofit groups are proceeding with the charity benefits that are an annual rite of spring. But they are looking for new ways to save money, like scheduling events in donors’ homes and joining forces to cut costs.

May 10, 2009, The New York Times — The opportunities for nonprofit groups to win money through contests are proliferating, adding yet another weapon to charities’ fund-raising arsenal.

New York, NY - May 5, 2009 - The award-winning Do Something (www.DoSomething.org), the largest national organization in America for young people and social change, can now add the 2009 Webby People's Voice Award in the category of Youth to its list of "awesome things we've done."

April 26, 2009, The New York Times — Here's the job description: You spend a few hours a day, up to 20 a week, at your computer, supplying answers online to customer questions about technical matters like how to set up an Internet home network or how to program a new high-definition television.

BRONXVILLE, N.Y., April 28, 2009, The New York Times — At 25 cents a job, or more, the children of Bronxville are laboring at home, some for the first time: cleaning their rooms, unloading the dishwasher, replacing toilet paper, pulling weeds.

April 22, 2009, The New York Times — Even as arts groups around the country are cutting back because of declining endowments and donations, a new foundation to support the work of American Indian, Native Hawaiian and Alaska Native artists is being established with an initial $10 million from the Ford Foundation.

April 21, 2009, The New York Times — Heeding President Obama’s call for boosting Americans’ engagement in civic service, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced on Monday a sweeping plan to encourage volunteerism among city residents.

April 19, 2009, The New York Times — Nonprofit work, from fund-raising for local charities to leading international aid organizations, is popular with career changers who, after years in business or feeling disaffected in their jobs, want to give back or infuse their work with meaning. Leaders advise retraining, or at least ­readjusting your for-profit worldview.

April 19, 2009, The New York Times — On Friday, March 14, 2008, Kip Schaefer was at his job at Bear Stearns, fielding call after call from agitated investors who, in one cataclysmic day, canceled billions of dollars in trades, creating a run on the nation’s fifth-largest investment bank and shuttering it by weekend’s end. Mr. Schaefer, who worked at the firm for 12 years, likened the trauma of that day to the death of a family member.