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...donate or volunteer, those hours can sometimes be better spent making an organization more efficient overall,” Eldridge says. Money is pouring into non-profit organizations, and Eldridge says consultants can give vital advice on managing it. “Organizations like the [Bill and Melinda] Gates Foundation are moving non-profits towards a more corporate model,” Eldridge says. Museums and other cultural institutions having been adopting ideas from the business world for decades. Eldridge says she has trouble getting excited about for-profit consulting projects, but she finds the non-profit niche very appealing...
...Skilling's sentencing, meanwhile, brought some cause for celebration for Enron victims, and not just because of the prospect of him behind bars for a long, long time. A criminal forfeiture and restitution agreement was announced the same day - about $45 million will be dispersed by U.S. District Judge Melinda Harmon to victims in pending civil lawsuits. Judge Sim Lake originally ordered a $5 million fine to be paid to the U.S. Government, but then changed his mind. "No fine - it will all go to the victims," he said. Seattle attorney Lynn Sarko, who represents employees in Enron retirement fund...
...field research center southeast of Dhaka, children who were given a 10-day course of zinc tablets after developing diarrhea had 30% fewer relapses, and 20% fewer developed pneumonia, reducing overall deaths by 50%. The cost of a course of zinc: about 25?. With funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and support from the U.S. Agency for International Development, an ICDDR program now aims to provide zinc tablets to every child under 5 in Bangladesh. Vaccines also hold promise for preventing some types of diarrhea. The most common cause of diarrhea in children is rotavirus, which leads...
...really impressed by his decision to donate 85 percent of his wealth to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation,” said WIB member Elizabeth K. Stahl ’08. “I thought it was a noble act and I want to hear from him why he wanted to give his money away...
...migration in philanthropy from historic preservation to social causes is leaving museums behind. Colonial Williamsburg was born as a historical site in 1926 with funding from John D. Rockefeller Jr. But when a modern Rockefeller equivalent, Warren Buffett, recently made his big gift, it was to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's disease hunters, not to museums...