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...missions that commit them to serve and better the community, callings that shouldn’t be reduced to assuage the problems the state government can’t handle. Perhaps this proposal would have been more amenable if the money taken by the state went directly to struggling non-profit organizations around the Commonwealth or other salutary areas. The fact that this revenue mechanism would have only been one of many recent ploys to help the government’s economic problems (like casinos are) then the justification loses all merit. Universities across the country, regardless of endowment size...
Harvard Medical School formally transferred ownership of Harvard Medical International (HMI)—the school’s non-profit consulting subsidiary—on Friday to Partners HealthCare, a company that owns several major Massachusetts hospitals. The new entity will be known as Partners Harvard Medical International until 2012, after which the Harvard name will be dropped. News of the deal was first reported in January, with word that it would close by mid-March. “The transfer of HMI to Partners HealthCare will help Harvard Medical School in focusing its international activities on its central...
...well the college prepares students to live in an environmentally conscious world—will be applied to 600 schools this year. The rating, produced on a scale of 60 to 90, is formulated from 28 survey questions designed to judge these three environmental factors. EcoAmerica, a non-profit environmental organization, helped develop the questionnaire for the Princeton Review and collect the data from the 2007-2008 academic year. “It’s in everybody’s best interest to be more committed to ecology,” Director of Public Relations for the Princeton Review...
...Kevin J. Feeney ’08, personal instruction from Dave Eggers was a regular occurrence that sparked a passion for literature and eventually led him to found a volunteer-supported writing center for high school students. As a sophomore in high school, Feeney heard about 826, a non-profit organization started by Dave Eggers with the aim of providing free after-school writing programs and seminars to high school students. Feeney’s emerging interest in creative writing led him to volunteer before the opening of 826 Valencia, the program’s first writing center, in Feeney?...
Partners In Health founder Paul E. Farmer discussed his non-profit healthcare organization’s involvement in the developing world yesterday afternoon at the Harvard School of Public Health. Farmer, a professor of social medicine at Harvard Medical School, spoke alongside two other medical experts about the intimate connection between poverty and disease and the need for intervention at a much broader scope. “It’s not fair for people to be able to starve in the 21st century when there’s such affluence,” said Farmer. During the two-hour...