Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Hungary's parliament approved on Tuesday strict new rules for non-government organisations with foreign funding in a further escalation of the government's conflict with Hungarian-American billionaire George Soros.

The New York Community Trust recently approved more than $12.3 million in grants to support 65 nonprofits that will help domestic violence victims find housing, strengthen arts groups, feed the hungry, and more.

A rumpled 60-something legal scholar who has taught animal-rights law at Harvard and Stanford, Steven Wise founded of the Nonhuman Rights Project, which calls itself “the only civil rights organization in the United States working through litigation...