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...Except that in most cases, there are no regular music classes. Sixty percent of students in grades K through 12 in the U.S. get no music at all in school, according to the Music Education Coalition, a group made up of instrument makers and music teachers. There are several for-profit programs that give lessons in rock music, including one that claims to have inspired the Jack Black movie. But Little Kids Rock's national scope and nonprofit status make it unique. Wish, more pedagogue than punk when class is out, makes the case for his approach to music education...
...panelists told roughly 40 students that for-profit management and marketing techniques were compatible with the objectives of non-profit organizations...
...profit international development organizations must learn to think like for-profit businesses in order to be effective in reducing poverty in the developing world, according to panelists that spoke yesterday at an event organized by the Social Enterprise Club...
...result, the WRC investigations are conducted and decisions about follow-up mediation are made independently of the brands involved. The FLA relies on the same corporations it’s supposed to monitor for much of its funding—seven out of the 11 monitors are for-profit, some with a history of doing business with the companies they’re monitoring. Especially given the recent record of failed corporate self-supervision and political sponsorship (think Enron), Harvard should know better than to let the fox guard the hen house...
Part of the hostility may come down to sour grapes. Last year the Beeb's for-profit operations, which are separate legal entities, brought in revenues of $1.9 billion--35% higher than in 2000--and returned $249 million to the BBC's not-for-profit side. That's remarkable, considering that during the same period, many of the world's major media firms struggled with slumping ad revenues, large debt loads and expensive mergers that blew up. But the Beeb more than muddled through, and one of its biggest success stories is right here in America...