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...experienced since the 1990s. The World Food Program (WFP) says it has launched a program to feed 6.2 million people in North Korea, or more than a quarter of the population. Yet in March, North Korea, without explanation, rejected all food aid from the United States, its largest official donor, and kicked five aid groups distributing the food out of the country. The step is potentially disastrous for the North Korean people. The WFP figures that last year's harvest, though slightly improved on 2007's, still fell about a third short of the population's needs. (See pictures...
...federal relations. Harvard College and Harvard Extension School have agreed to contribute $3,000, and the American Repertory Theater will contribute $1,500, Day said.HLS spokesman Robert L. J. London '79 wrote in an e-mailed statement that Acting Dean Howell E. Jackson had managed to secure some additional donor support specifically for HLS's Yellow Ribbon commitments, which allowed the school to participate fully even in the current tough financial times."I think [Harvard's Yellow Ribbon participation] is a typical case of 'every tub on its own bottom,'" said Seth W. Moulton '01, a Business School and Kennedy...
...poorest may or may not be cut as part of that process," Bill Gates told reporters in London on Thursday after the release of the DATA report. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation operates in numerous African countries, and its $27.5 billion endowment makes it a far more significant donor than foreign governments are in some countries...
...budget next year by $6 million, to $161.3 million. And in May he nominated a firecracker, the Broadway producer Rocco Landesman, to be the NEA's next chairman. But at the same time, arts groups are worried about what they see as a serious threat to their donor base: the White House proposal to reduce as much as 20% the tax deduction that higher-income families can take for charitable contributions...
...shell-shocked organizations that went to Kaiser for advice was the Beck Center for the Arts, a theater and arts-education group near Cleveland. In January ticket sales and donor money "fell off a cliff," says Lucinda Einhouse, the Beck Center's president. In April she traveled to Washington to meet with Kaiser. She went home and instituted some, if not all, of his gospel. Marketing will be maintained. But the theater will mount fewer shows next year, and some will be chestnuts like Fiddler on the Roof and Peter...