Word: nonprofit
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...mark an unconventional, if modest, political comeback for Brown, now 60. In 1995, after three failed bids for the presidency, he sold his mansion in San Francisco's posh Pacific Heights and moved across the bay to Oakland's gritty waterfront. There he started up We the People, a nonprofit community center for grass-roots activism, and hectored his old rival Bill Clinton and other politicians on a national radio call-in show. Last fall, to the horror of other would-be mayors, he announced his candidacy...
Dole is today's Class Day speaker for the Kennedy School of Government (KSG), chosen because she leads one of the world's largest nonprofit organizations and thus serves as a model for a new wave of KSG graduates aiming for careers in community service...
...program is not without its powerful supporters, both in and out of the classroom. Silicon Valley, whose executives Gore is ardently courting, is particularly enthusiastic about the idea of wiring the vast, untapped market that Andrew Blau of the Benton Foundation, a nonprofit group that studies the social impact of technology, describes as "like China within our borders." To enlarge this new customer base, companies have offered seminars, free software and help with the applications that schools must make to receive the funding. Industry sources have estimated that $2 billion spent on wiring schools produces as much as $6 billion...
...although the newest angiogenesis inhibitors have relatively few side effects, at least compared with radiation or chemotherapy, they are not risk free. "Lack of toxicity in animals does not mean there is no toxicity to humans," says Dr. William Li, medical director of the Boston-based Angiogenesis Foundation, a nonprofit clearinghouse for information on the latest research...
...Mohan Sawhney of Northwestern University, "you'll begin to see far more targeted commerce." Sites that are community centered, he says, will eventually attract clients "that will be the Procter & Gambles of the world." In some cases that is already happening. Last summer Mary Furlong, the founder of the nonprofit Senior Net educational centers, created the definitely-for-profit Third Age and thinks of it as "my grandmother's front porch," a place where people gather to hear news and swap information. With a database of more than 5,000 pages of free and discounted products and services and sponsors...