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St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital promises not to bill families. But the cost of having a child at the hospital for cancer care leaves some families so strapped for money that parents share tips on spending nights in the parking lot.

The nonprofit, Uplift Solutions, reimbursed Brown's supermarket chain for scores of food donations, small grants to community groups and office space.

And there’s an investigation into two escaped Philly prisoners

Photo illustration by ProPublica; source image: Milton Hershey School, MHS 2018 IRS Form 990 Long ago, and to great fanfare, business tycoon Milton Hershey revealed that he had given away his world-famous chocolate company, a gift to the school for poor orphans that he had founded with his wife. “Well, I have no children — that is, no heirs,” he said in 1923. “So I decided to make the orphan boys of the United States my heirs.” Hershey died in 1945, leaving a huge estate and a compan...

Milton Hershey School often has "too much" money.

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Special Report They were home now, evacuated from the chaos at Lakeside Academy. About this project This story is a collaboration between The San Francisco Chronicle and The Imprint, an independent, nonprofit publication dedicated to covering child welfare, juvenile justice, mental health and educational issues faced by vulnerable youth. To report the story, Joaquin Palomino and Cynthia Dizikes of The Chronicle and Sara Tiano of The Imprint obtained hundreds of incident reports through ...