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...compete with the huge multi-screen complexes that are springing up across America. Therefore, running such a theater is an expensive undertaking. In order to help fund the theatre, Hinkle and Moylan have created the Brattle Film Foundation and are in the process of turning the Brattle into a non-profit organization. Ultimately, it is up to the public to keep the Brattle going, and Moylan and Hinkle are going to do everything they can to make the Brattle a place where the public wants...
Proceeds from ticket sales will go to Project HEALTH, a national non-profit service organization. Founded in 1996 by a Harvard undergraduate, the organization works to develop and implement projects that work to break the connection between poverty and poor health. Its numerous programs, both hospital and neighborhood-based, bring together the efforts of undergraduate volunteers with the expertise of professional health-care providers and inner-city community leaders. Originally based at sites in Dorchester and Roxbury, the program has since expanded to Providence, New York City and Washington, D.C. About 150 Harvard students currently volunteer; recruiting will begin anew...
...non-profit monitoring agency founded by unions, non-governmental organizations and universities to prevent overseas sweatshop labor...
Through an arrangement with the non-profit Historic Massachusetts, Inc., the club had sought to make alumni donations for the preservation of the building tax-exempt. Their efforts were certainly within the letter of the law, but not necessarily the spirit: the citizens of Cambridge derive no great benefits from the building’s presence, and the Fly shows no intention of conducting tours of its grounds or otherwise giving back to the community in exchange for its tax exemption...
...piece of paper on the wall that confers certain advantages when seeking future employment. The great question we face as students is not how we should conduct ourselves while here, but what to do once we have left—to go into I-banking or work for a non-profit, or maybe head to graduate school as a means of delaying the decision. The liberal education universities seek to provide is just an antiquated tradition, an activity (like croquet) once pursued by the leisured classes to occupy their time and no longer applicable to a changed, egalitarian world...