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Homeboy Industries, the storied Los Angeles jobs program for gang members founded by Catholic priest Gregory Boyle, has received funding from the Los Angeles City Council to temporarily ease a recession-caused cash crunch at the charity. Homeboy, top-ranked by the nonprofit analyst Charity Navigator, has stepped up its drive for donations on its Web site, frozen new hiring and extended café hours on weekends, according to the Associated Press. On August 14, the city council voted to have the city’s gang prevention program negotiate a $340,000 contract with the organization.

Two Episcopal dioceses have nominated gay and lesbian priests in same-sex relationships to become bishops, testing a weeks-old policy and the Episcopal Church’s place within the global Anglican Communion.

The Diocese of Minnesota nominated three candidates for bishop on August 1, including Bonnie Perry, a Chicago priest who has been in a same-sex relationship with another Episcopal priest for more than 20 years. If Perry is elected October 31 at the Minnesota diocesan convention, she will become the second openly gay, partnered bishop in the Episcopal Church.