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Herms founded the Student-Alumni Committee on Institutional Security Policy, a non-profit campus security consulting firm that has been critical of HUPD in the past...
...exemption policy for non-profit organizations, educational institutions included, is long standing and has maintained bi-partisan support since its inception. The rationale is simple: non-profit organizations provide a benefit to society that more than balances the taxes that they would otherwise pay. Some non-profits, such as homeless shelters, provide direct services to individuals, which benefit the broader community. Others act more indirectly by increasing property values or bringing money to an area’s economy. Simply because Harvard is wealthy doesn’t mean that it no longer brings these benefits to the Cambridge community?...
...appeal, filed by the conservative non-profit group Liberty Counsel, attempted to overturn the state Supreme Judicial Court (SJC)’s November 2003 ruling legalizing same-sex marriage in the Bay State. Since then, more than 3,000 same-sex couples in Massachusetts have filed for marriage licenses, according to the Associated Press...
...Planet Aid, clothes are shipped down in bulk from Canada, and employees pick through them on site to decide what stays and what goes. All of the clothes here are by donation, since Planet Aid is part of the non-profit Humana People to People, an aid organization that runs teaching, HIV/AIDS and sustainable development programs in Africa and Central America. What you’ll find here are quirky pieces mixed in with generally modern, basic items. This is a good place to go if you want clothes that are fairly straightforward and cheaper than new ones, particularly...
Though Harvard is Cambridge’s largest landowner, its non-profit status exempts the University from paying most property taxes. Under a payment-in-lieu-of-taxes (PILOT) agreement negotiated in 1990, Harvard is required to pay the city $1.7 million annually, in addition to $4.3 million in property taxes on non-tax-exempt land owned by the University...