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Health officials are changing how they assess the regional nonprofits that find organs to transplant. The goal is to understand, and eventually fix, the geographic disparities in organ availability.

Think "grass-roots politics," and what's the first thing that comes to mind? How about two dozen multimillionaires with open checkbooks? An NPR analysis of annual IRS filings by Crossroads Grassroots Policy Strategies shows most of its first $77 million came from donors who gave at least $1 million.

"Depending on the outcome, it will either be viewed as genius or the dumbest political move in history," political science professor Patricia Crouse told NPR.

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, donated more than $400 million to nonprofits that in turn distributed grants last year to state and local election officials.

In response to the devastating fires raging in LA, a small restaurant in Surf City USA has become a channel for big help — from locals to people across the country — to support their neighbors up north.

Many dental offices in Florida donated personal protective equipment like masks to frontline medical care workers when state orders limited them to just...

A GoFundMe account set up by Pieper Lewis' former math teacher has surpassed the amount of the court-ordered restitution — and people are still giving.

The Grammy-winning artist was sentenced on Thursday to 14 years in prison for a case in which he was convicted of illegally funneling foreign contributions to former President Obama's 2012 campaign.

A new report on global giving shows there has been a big shift in recent years in who is giving and receiving international aid. The U.S. remains the largest donor, giving out more than $30 billion each year. But now large sums of money are coming from private foundations and corporations and even countries who only a few years ago were recipients themselves.

Las Vegas residents fight through the shock and fear of the mass shootings from the Mandalay Bay hotel Sunday night. Despite being traumatized, many showed up in long lines to give blood.