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...Cantabrigians.But Harvard had financial woes of its own. Even though it was Cambridge’s largest landlord, Harvard was charging rents below market value and was losing money on its real estate holdings.To address this problem, the University in 1978 formed Harvard Real Estate, Inc. (HRE), a non-profit company that would manage Harvard’s non-academic property holdings.Within three years, HRE, under the stewardship of Sally Zeckhauser, had angered tenants so much that they formed the Harvard Tenants Union (HTU) to protest allegedly unfair rent increases and negligent management.The tensions came to a head...
Volunteers and workers at non-profit charities do not consider themselves immune to criticism; in fact, those of us who volunteer our time at non-profits are eager to critically examine our own practices and to learn how to do our work more efficiently, quickly, and effectively...
There are times, however, when this criticism crosses the line. Case in point: the unfounded claim in this op-ed that large non-profit charities are “shoddy,” “nearly-fraudulent,” and “out of control.” The writer, Lucy M. Caldwell, begins by arguing that the American Cancer Society (ACS) spends “only 26 percent of its national multibillion-dollar budget on actual medical research.” The rest, she claims, is waste. Caldwell seems to be unaware that the cancer society...
Often, such involvement leads to a career working for non-profit firms, public schools, advocacy organizations, campaigns, or government offices, as graduates continue to try to serve the world by working directly to improve individual people’s lives or working indirectly to better the world by improving public policy...
...moral of this story, the reason not to forget technology, is that it really can solve problems. Not only comparatively little problems—computationally intense questions in theoretical physics—but really big ones as well: A non-profit organization called “One Laptop Per Child” started by an MIT professor aims to use today’s technology to distribute robust $100 laptops to the world’s poor as a step towards improved education. If we’re going to make progress on the difficult problems we?...