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...good news for small nonprofits is that more and more individuals are looking to find them. For one thing, there are preliminary signs that large donations, such as the $1.5 billion gift to the Salvation Army from the late Joan Kroc and the staggering $37.1 billion pledge from Warren Buffett to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, lead some folks to conclude that big charities don't need their support--although the huge gifts more than offset any loss of small donations...
...DIED. Sandy West, 47, pioneering rock drummer whose muscular riffs propelled the punk-metal sound of the Runaways, the all-girl band she co-founded in 1975 with Joan Jett; of lung cancer; in San Dimas, California. Although dismissed as a novelty act in the all-male world of rock, the Runaways influenced female-led punk bands from X-Ray Spex to the Go-Gos with raw, thumping anthems like Cherry Bomb, Born to be Bad and Is It Day or Night...
...Referencing your prodigious use of detail, Joan Didion wrote that you find "[nothing] too insignificant for inclusion." Might you include me in your next book...
...won’t sound the death knell for mainstream media, leaders of today’s news industry said Friday at a Kennedy School of Government panel that included blogger Arianna Huffington and Slate Magazine founder Michael Kinsley ’72. Around 200 spectators flocked to the Joan Shorenstein Center for the Press, Politics and Public Policy last week in celebration of the Harvard research center’s 20th anniversary. There, six panelists agreed that traditional forms of news can co-exist with online alternatives. “In the foreseeable future, while we and our children...
...medical community.Martin also launched the HCNR, which helped link 700 scientists in an effort to combat neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. Martin also pushed to increase the school’s diversity, promoting many women and minorities and appointing Joan Reede the school’s dean for diversity and community partnership—making her, according to Harvard, the first African-American female dean in the University’s history.The Medical School’s growth in cultural diversity was matched by physical enlargement, as Martin’s term...