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...for-profit college-savings network called Upromise hopes to add even more savers with a unique twist on the 529 program. It offers parents ways to save even as they spend. A few cents of each dollar they pay for gas, a car or even a home can go into a special college-savings account set up through Upromise. "People are stuck. They're not saving, and they feel guilty. This allows them to get started," says Upromise founder Michael Bronner...
Group president and founder Thomas “Mackie” Dougherty ’03 said the program is the nation’s first community service group geared toward online tutoring, although for-profit organizations offer similar services...
...impetus behind the change has come from the Boston Sports Club, a for-profit company that has been managing the MAC since last spring...
NURSING NIGHTMARE For-profit nursing homes give worse care than public and not-for-profit ones, the first large-scale comparative study finds. Investor-owned homes provided 27% fewer nursing hours per patient and were almost 50% more likely to be cited for deficiencies in administration and care...
...youth. By his 20s he had moved to Los Angeles and founded Bright's California Confections. But he fell into the circle of legendary Christian youth worker Henrietta Mears, and under her influence drafted a contract with the Lord stipulating, in part, "I am your slave." His for-profit work tailed off; but his entrepreneurial bent flourished. In the 1950's, conservative Christian youth had begun an exodus from small bible colleges into liberal arts schools, wildernesses of secularism. Sensing a market, Bright founded Campus Crusade's first branch, at UCLA...