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...find a new way around it." In Drayton's view, there is no difference between those who use their skills in business and those who use them in the pursuit of social goals. More and more people agree. As economic, social and political pressures blur the boundaries between the for-profit and not-for-profit worlds, a new breed of do-gooder is emerging, one that uses techniques and tools honed in the workplace to tackle social problems. In most cases, they start small. But taken together, they are changing the way nonprofit enterprises are conceived and run and bringing...
Ivey said that the NEA should fund popular culture and for-profit arts as well as traditional "high culture...
going to go. I also understand the Coop's fiscal responsibility to its members, however. Remember, the Coop is not a for-profit company," Dearing wrote...
...include many Harvard employees--will be turned over to other health-care providers. This reduced competition could result in higher premiums and poorer care. It would also mean the loss of what once was a premier non-profit HMO in the country, a valuable counter-balance to the powerful for-profit HMOs that dominate the health-care industry. Massachusetts Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly has rightly expressed a preference to keep the HMO a non-profit organization, so that premiums can be returned to doctors and hospitals...
...unclear whether HPHC, from a business perspective, is a sound investment. Other for-profit health management organizations have displayed a lack of interest in the financially shaky HMO. But HPHC is in debt to Harvard's teaching hospitals, as it is to health care providers across the state, and it is most likely in Harvard's interests to keep the HMO afloat...