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...summer of 1988, nine years after they met as freshman year roommates, Alan A.A. Khazei ’83 and Michael H. Brown ’83 launched City Year, a non-profit community service organization that currently operates in 17 U.S. locations and in Johannesburg, South Africa. City Year began as a nine-week program for 50 volunteers, but by the next fall it was enlisting young people for a full year of service...

Author: By Peter R. Raymond, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Alan Khazei and Michael Brown | 6/1/2008 | See Source »

...Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute, a non-profit that studies and provides education on adoption, examined national statistics and studies on transracial adoptions - those in which adoptive parents and adopted children are of different races - in the U.S. over the past two decades. In its report, "Finding Families for African American Children," the institute argues that race should be a factor in adoption placement, and that agencies should be allowed to screen non-black families who want to adopt black children - for their ability to teach self-esteem and defense against racism, and for their level of interaction with other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should Race Be a Factor in Adoptions? | 5/27/2008 | See Source »

...well have been rooted in another kind of unease. Locke, long an academic underperformer, will come under new management in just a few weeks. After a protracted battle, L.A. Unified School District's board voted in the fall to turn it over to Green Dot Public Schools, a private non-profit that plans to turn the campus into a cluster of charter schools. Come July 1, many of Locke's teachers will be out of work. And students, worried about new policies like required uniforms, wonder whether there will still be a football team or a school band...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Black vs. Brown at LA School | 5/15/2008 | See Source »

...said that the improved site provides the average consumer with basic recommendations and tips. The site also includes references to scientific journals for more in-depth information. Kalin said that with approximately 2.2 million visitors a year, “we reach an awful lot of people for a non-profit education Web site.” The updated pyramid, which is based on data from the Nurses’ Health Study and the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study, differs from the 2005 recommendation of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). For example, Harvard recommends 1,000 IUs of Vitamin...

Author: By June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Nutrition Site Relaunched | 5/14/2008 | See Source »

...little press coverage, it merits a great deal of praise since not all roads should lead to lucrative private sector jobs. Programs like these are an important step towards eliminating a socioeconomic barrier to entry for public service. Significantly, it also incentivizes the best and the brightest to consider non-profit options right out of school...

Author: By Katherine C Harris | Title: Shutting the Money Trap | 5/12/2008 | See Source »

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