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Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino announced on Tuesday the formation of a task force intended to reexamine the amount of voluntary payments made by universities and other non-profit institutions to the city...
...What the mayor is looking to do is to broaden and deepen the relationship with the colleges and universities, and other non-profit organizations within the city,” McCluskey said...
...non-profit institution with a long-term horizon, Harvard can afford to take relatively low-impact steps to address its budget shortfall. So far, Harvard has not had to follow the lead of the market in issuing a shower of pink slips. However, Harvard is far from immune to the market downturn, and, while we would ideally want to avoid cutbacks altogether, restricting salary increases and new hires is a reasonable decision that will minimize impact to our community, while hopefully helping to ease a significant portion of the $100 million shortfall...
...looking for people dedicated to our mission.”Biber also said he thought that increased interest in Teach for America might be due to people looking for “meaningful work” in a time of crisis.THE HISTORYTeach for America is a non-profit organization that, according to its mission statement, works to “eliminate educational inequality by enlisting our nations most promising future leaders in the effort.”TFA trains and oversees a core of high-achieving recent college graduates to work as public school teachers in under-served rural...
...increasingly seen as a distinct asset class and a profitable business opportunity. The numbers are truly staggering. In 2006, over $2 billion in commercial capital poured into the microfinance industry. In 2007, this investment was over $3 billion. At the same time, MFIs themselves are increasingly transforming from non-profit organizations to regulated, for-profit institutions. They are doing so even as many microfinance institutions still rely on a guy keeping a big book with a ledger rather than a computer system. But there is a delicate balancing act that we have to maintain, because while commercialization holds tremendous promise...