Word: nonprofit
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...McNamara. Because the techniques have often been applied without sufficient judgment and discrimination, they have attracted their fair share of criticism. Yet the use of methods such as program budgeting, cost-benefit analysis and simulation models has continued to spread beyond the Defense Department to other government agencies and nonprofit institutions. As a result, even the critics must acknowledge that key policymakers should be acquainted with these methods if only to appreciate their pitfalls and avoid becoming captive to elaborate staff studies which they cannot adequately comprehend...
Jobless managers aged 40 or over have been seeking help from a nonprofit organization called Forty Plus that has branches in eleven cities. Staffed and directed entirely by volunteers, the organization keeps lists of the "right people" to contact at local companies and instructs new members in job-interview tactics and in the art of writing a competent resume. Some resume tips: eliminate all references to age-including college class and dates of employment-and stress accomplishment in describing previous jobs rather than simply listing the job title...
...dying bequests made to a companion will automatically go to a nonprofit corporation that Threshold is setting up to pay for companions to the indigent. The company is also branching out to sponsor workshops on dying for hospital personnel, the terminally ill and the general public. There may be more services to come. "Dying is spectacular," says Roberts. "I've even thought of making some kind of production out of it -like having the Mormon Tabernacle Choir come sing at your bedside, if you could afford...
Though researched and written by Digest editorial people, each page of each "message" will be clearly labeled ADVERTISEMENT. The advertiser is the Business Roundtable, a nonprofit group of 150 corporate executives organized to educate the public in the free-enterprise system. The Roundtable raised $1.2 million to buy 36 pages in twelve consecutive Digest issues at the magazine's regular advertising rate. Though the preface mentions the Roundtable's participation, it omits interesting details of that organization's role. For instance, the Roundtable's 15-member public-information committee is empowered to kill an installment...
...struck a blow for the poor, pawed-at, imposed-upon American. Recently, it threw out an IRS decision to tax the John D. Rockefeller Cemetery Corp., which was endowed with $200,000 by John D. Rockefeller Jr. to ensure his descendants as much comfort below ground as above. The nonprofit corporation met with all the law's requirements concerning tax exemption. Still, claimed the IRS, with visions of laying hands on just a little more of the living Rockefellers' estimated $1,033,988,000 wealth, Congress had intended only public necropolises to be taxexempt. "Grasping at straws...