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...work in enriching young women through the non-profit organization Strong Women, Strong Girls, the American Institute of Public Service honored Hyde with the Samuel S. Beard Award for Greatest Public Service by an Individual 35 Years or Younger, one of four national public service awards given out at Tuesday’s annual Jefferson Awards for Public Service ceremony...
...very least some bulletproof vests. Robert Stellingworth, president of the non-profit New Orleans Police and Justice Foundation, told the panel how private funds were needed to replace police body armor lost in the floods since the city-whose tax base has fallen off precipitously since the disaster-couldn't afford it and FEMA couldn't guarantee that it could reimburse the city to replace the waterlogged vests. It's not exactly what an officer in one of the nation's most gun-ridden cities wants to hear. "You just cannot ask officers to worry about whether FEMA's going...
Gates is a major Harvard donor and primary benefactor of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the largest philanthropic organization in the world. With $33.4 billion, the foundation oversees the largest endowment any non-profit organization, surpassing even Harvard?...
...since come to embrace her name and the cultural identity attached to it. Leng, known as “Tech” among her friends, will travel to Cambodia next year under the George Peabody Gardner fellowship. Her tentative plans involve working for a non-profit to provide urban women the “entrepreneurial tools” to market the silk-weaving they produce, Leng says. Her post-graduate goals reflect two interests deepened at Harvard: her Cambodian heritage and public service. Leng, whose family—parents and 40 relatives—moved to Massachusetts a year before...
...fall of 2003, at a joint event between Harvard-Radcliffe Christian Fellowship (HCRF) and the Harvard-Radcliffe Asian American Christian Fellowship (HRAACF). Their brief conversation about medical missions inspired Huang to email the freshman an article about Harvard medical professor Paul Farmer, the founder of international non-profit Partners in Health. Lee appreciated the gesture—but couldn’t quite connect the e-mail address to a face.That summer, she volunteered at an orphanage in China and Huang ended up on her update mass-e-mail list. Upon returning to Harvard, she e-mailed...