Word: nonprofit
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...younger Kennedy has demonstrated such credentials through the Citizens Energy Corp., a successful nonprofit firm he founded in 1979 to provide low- cost heating oil to the state's poor. If he persuades Boston-area voters to send him to Washington, he just might help give Congress its first brother- sister act. His sister Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, 34, a public interest lawyer on leave from her job in the Maryland attorney general's office, is said to be considering running for the Second District in suburban Baltimore, where she has lived for about two years...
...magazine, co-edited by Robert Tucker and Owen Harries, has a press run of 5,000. But Executive Editor Tod Lindberg predicts circulation will reach 12,000 within two years. The nonprofit magazine is supported by several conservative groups, including the John Olin Foundation, which contributed $600,000. Kristol is already optimistic enough about the journal's potential influence to label it part of a new "trinity," along with Foreign Affairs (circ. 90,000) and Foreign Policy...
...bespeaks merely "a craze for charity," then Sun City represents a step toward outright activism. The accustomed structure for all such undertakings is present: participating musicians worked free, recording studios donated facilities, Van Zandt covered his own expenses, and Manhattan Records will donate all of the profits to the nonprofit Africa Fund...
...growing number of harried borrowers are showing up regularly at credit counselors' doors. "We've got more business than we can respond to," says Andrew McGehee, executive director of the Consumer Credit Counseling Service of South Florida. "Obviously, the problem is getting worse." McGehee's nonprofit service advised 2,244 families last year, up 17% from 1983. He expects to surpass that this year. The National Foundation for Consumer Credit, which operates 245 offices around the U.S., said consumers are now arriving for advice in greater numbers than at any time in the past five years...
...more and more American children are living in poverty. A recent study by the Congressional Budget Office estimated that 13.8 million children were in poverty in 1983, an increase of more than 4 million since 1973. The CBO findings were reinforced last week by a report from the nonprofit Children's Defense Fund. According to C.D.F. President Marian Edelman, the plight of black children has worsened dramatically compared with that of whites since 1980. Black children, said Edelman, are now twice as likely as whites to die before their first birthday, three times as likely to live in an impoverished...