Word: nonprofit
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Despite initial setbacks, the nonprofit ICIC now appears to have begun bridging the cultural gap separating the Harvard Business School's (HBS) leafy Allston campus from the struggling Roxbury start-ups it seeks to help...
...There's such a housing shortage [in Cambridge] that they're still setting limits," says Maureen Spofford, director of Cambridge Cares, a nonprofit organization that offers daycare services, educational outreach and case management to HIV-positive Cambridge and Somerville residents...
Besides, Ickes may have good reason to limit his legal exposure in the fund-raising mess. One of the most damaging documents in his trove was the one he reportedly faxed to a Florida businessman listing accounts to which more than $1 million could be wired, including three nonprofit groups and the Democratic National Committee. Although he could engage in political activities, Ickes was barred, like all other federal employees, from soliciting contributions. The fax reads more like an order than a solicitation, but even Ickes told the New York Times the memo was "just blind-pig stupid...
...combination of many enemies, a flamboyant life-style and a nonprofit tax exemption inevitably resulted in charges of impropriety similar to ones she launched against religious institutions. "Madalyn was sort of the Jimmy Swaggart of the movement," says Gaylor's daughter Annie Laurie Gaylor, who is editor of Freethought Today. "I'm not implying criminal activity, but they were always bragging about silk suits and Cadillacs. At the same time the roof was always leaking--and 'Please send money.'" Madalyn, critics claim, like many charismatic movement leaders, had utterly lost the ability to distinguish between herself and her cause...
Psychiatrists and educators have long recognized the value of early experience. But their observations have until now been largely anecdotal. What's so exciting, says Matthew Melmed, executive director of Zero to Three, a nonprofit organization devoted to highlighting the importance of the first three years of life, is that modern neuroscience is providing the hard, quantifiable evidence that was missing earlier. "Because you can see the results under a microscope or in a PET scan," he observes, "it's become that much more convincing...