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...have the FBI and NASA soon. Mount says that Harvard is a “target School for the CIA, FBI, and State Department because of its in-depth language programs and strong writing programs.” Renee M. Ragin ’10, a member of the non-profit “Partnership for Public Service,” a D.C.-based organization that aims to educate students about ways they can get involved in public service, also said that she had detected an increased interest in the public sector in the last year. With fewer career options...
...nation, according to the Princeton Review’s “2010 Green Rating Honor Roll” published this past July. Along with 14 other schools, Harvard received the top score of 99 according to green-rating criteria developed by the Princeton Review and ecoAmerica, a non-profit environmental organization. That recognition has drawn much deserved attention to the abundance of green initiatives taking off at the university...
...unit subsidized housing complex, owned by Charlesview, Inc., an interdenominational faith-based, non-profit organization, was constructed in 1971 but has not been adequately maintained. Yet initial offers from the University for a land swap were rebuffed by the board and the residents. Even when the board voted in 2006 to accept an offer from Harvard for 6.25 acres of land where the Brighton Mills shopping center is currently located, residents remained dissatisfied, staging protests and charging that they were being excluded from the decision-making process...
...mentioned the private sector. There have been studies that have shown that corporate philanthropy is down, corporate giving is down. Corporate social responsibility investment funds are up, but one of the consequences of corporate giving being down is that the non-profit sector, which depends on it so much, is being hurt...
...there anything that government can do to help that sort of leg of the stool, to help the kind of private sector of the corporate world become more involved in the non-profit sector? The President: Well, it's not surprising that when you've had the worst recession since the Great Depression, that businesses are cutting back across the board, and that includes their philanthropic efforts. What that also means is it's going to bounce back once businesses themselves bounce back. So I'm not so much worried about the long-term trends. I think that this...