Jay Hancock

WHAT'S BEHIND the surprising spurt in Maryland tax collections and what Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. calculates is a billion-dollar budget surplus? It's not something just for the politicians to...

FAITHFUL READERS know about a $2 billion federal boondoggle called the Javits-Wagner- O'Day program, which pays peanuts to disabled people working on no-bid government contracts, enriches nonprofit executives and operates...

RIIIING. IT'S the National Federation of the Blind of Oregon, calling across that state. They want money "to help the blind of the area," according to a fund-raising script from...

The nonprofit-industrial complex knows it has a problem. Impropriety and opacity at multiple charities involving millions of dollars have tarnished the reputation of all nonprofits and probably prompted more than...

FEDERAL authorities have launched a tax probe of Baltimore-based Chimes Inc. and have proposed sweeping governance standards, including executive salary limits, for Chimes and other nonprofit groups that get $2...

The Chimes, a large Baltimore charity serving the mentally disabled, pays chief executive Terry Allen Perl far more than it disclosed last fall when it came under fire for oversight...

The Chimes, a Baltimore nonprofit group strongly criticized by charity experts for nondisclosure of business deals with board members and millions in executive pay, said yesterday that it is asking...

The Chimes, a highly respected, Baltimore-based nonprofit group that provides jobs and care for the disabled, paid three top executives $2.44 million over three years that it failed to disclose...

In two decades as a government administrator, Roy Lafontaine figures he has dealt with dozens of nonprofit agencies delivering services to the disabled. Few, if any, he said, have been...