Word: nonprofit
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Companies donating school supplies get more than warm feelings in return. Most corporations that give merchandise to nonprofit organizations are allowed tax deductions on the donated goods. That is not to say the donors lack heart. Donations in 1997 totaled $3 million; they have jumped to $4 million so far this year. "Many businessmen simply want to help their community," says Walters. "Getting school supplies to needy kids is a good...
Clinton--or, more accurately, the Clinton team--is very clever to shift the American people's attention to scribblers, paparazzi and all the professionals who make their living off of buzz. Members of the media--involved in a business, not a nonprofit service--are always tempted to slant the story to further their own purposes. Consider, for example, that the person who encouraged Linda S. Tripp to bring Monica Lewinsky's story into the open was Lucianne Goldberg, a New York book agent. (Though her Republican sympathies no doubt had a large role in her desire to expose Clinton...
...learning for the rest of their lives. "If they're not getting the nurturing they need in the earliest years, their synaptic development shuts down, which in turn shuts down the foundations for learning and being a human being," says Matthew Melmed, executive director of Zero to Three, a nonprofit group focusing on the importance of the first three years of life...
...Lewinsky scandal: AmeriCorps. The national service program is a favorite of President Clinton?s, and its supporters were worried that it might be a target for his congressional critics. But the four-year-old program has won over skeptics by emphasizing its grassroots structure and its alliance with respected nonprofit organizations around the country. Members are selected by and work for such groups as Boys and Girls Clubs of America and Habitat for Humanity. AmeriCorps prevailed on a key Senate funding vote in July by 58 to 37, winning over such former Republican critics as Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania...
...Remaining nonprofit. As such, the Duke University Health System's 4% return is plowed back into the medical center rather than being paid out in dividends to shareholders...