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Both the AIDS bike rides and the Avon Breast Cancer Walks, which together netted $69 million last year, are produced for charitable causes by a for-profit firm called Pallotta Teamworks. In the 1990s, Pallotta elevated the folksy fund-raising trend to a well-marketed mass movement with glossy brochures and inspirational videos. But that kind of approach is turning off do-gooders like Carol Peeples, 44, a teacher in Salida, Colo., who raised $2,500 for a Pallotta-run Avon Breast Cancer Walk last year. Peeples and other walkers received a coffee-table-book-size color catalog promoting various...
...ANDREA JUNG When AVON needed a makeover two years ago, Jung practically reinvented the company. She united its disconnected international operations into what she called a global "company for women." For the first time in its 115-year history, she placed in stores products that were competitive with other big brands. She enlisted as an Avon lady, listening to customers and developing incentive and recruiting programs that revitalized the sales force. And as China opens wider to trade, Jung, 42, has a big advantage: though born in Toronto, she learned Mandarin from her parents...
...Times covered their every move. Presidents, the real ones, sought their counsel. For Woodrow Wilson and Dwight Eisenhower, being head of Princeton and Columbia, respectively, was a stepping-stone to the White House. Today, though, the job of college president is less and less removed from that of the Avon lady (except the house calls are made to the doorsteps of wealthy alums...
While the National struggles to satisfy its critics and find new audiences, British theater?s other flagship is planning some modernizations of its own. The 41-year-old Royal Shakespeare Company, currently in dual residency at Stratford-Upon-Avon and London?s Barbican Centre, has announced an ambitious agenda of relocation and innovation for the coming year...
...volunteers who come to the rescue. Women on both sides have taken up a common crusade known as promotoras. With help from government agencies like Mexico's Health and Development Federation, they are creating community banks and lending trees for small businesses; they circulate in poor neighborhoods like Avon ladies, teaching health care and selling condoms; they even dig trenches for colonia septic systems...