Word: affordability
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...Young Professionals Network of the Rocky Mountain Multiple Sclerosis Center raised $8,000 running drag queen bingo. "We're trying to get younger people involved, the 20- and 30-something-year-olds," says Kathryn Buckley, development coordinator of the Englewood, Colo. center. "A lot of us can't afford to do the big black-tie dinners and golf tournaments, and this is just so much...
...Martin Fisher, 48, and Nick Moon, 51, a simple pump could be the solution to poverty for millions of Africans. They're the co-founders of KickStart, a San Francisco--based nonprofit that encourages rural entrepreneurship by providing tools that Africa's poor can afford. Since the group was founded in Nairobi in 1991 under the name ApproTEC, it has developed a machine to make building blocks, a press that extracts cooking oil from seeds, a hay baler and a series of hand-operated micro-irrigation pumps. Their latest, the MoneyMaker Hip Pump, retails in Africa...
...lack of affiliation with the Harvard Varsity Club, the organization that fundraises for Varsity sports. For individuals (especially those on financial aid), personal costs are prohibitively expensive. Assumptions that the members of “ritzy” teams like skiing and horseback riding are sufficiently moneyed to afford participation are often false. According to equestrian dressage captain Olivia A. Benowitz ’09, many team members “come from parts of the country where it’s not as expensive to ride horses. Since the beginning of this year, we have lost about 75 percent...
...This same issue of access to scholarship hits even harder on people outside of our well-funded elite universities. Most universities cannot begin to afford the journal prices for which even Harvard strains to pay. Individuals seeking to navigate with their loved ones the bewildering complexity of treatments for serious disease are shut out from the sources their doctors read, and those looking to learn about public-policy issues like global warming are denied access to critical research. Most urgently, for researchers and policymakers in the developing world, access to knowledge can mean life or death for millions suffering from...
...Cardullo’s Gourmet Shoppe, located adjacent to the Greenhouse, said he thought it was “very unfortunate that there are a lot of independent shops that can’t manage to stay in business right now because they can’t afford to pay the high rent...