Word: nonprofit
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Already, across the country nonprofit Christian legal groups funded by televangelists and direct-mail appeals are pursuing a broad range of cases, pioneering a savvy brand of First Amendment fundamentalism. "Christians from the 1960s on have taken a major beating in the legal arena and have lost a lot of their liberties," argues Mathew Staver, president of the six-year-old Liberty Counsel in Orlando, Florida. "In the '80s we discovered we must enter the mainstream to assert those liberties." Along with a number of school-prayer cases, the Liberty Counsel has advocated free speech in an amicus Supreme Court...
...behind a sliding glass window who hands her a clipboard with forms to fill out. In the bathroom, a chrome-and-glass cart holds a medicine jar full of cotton. But this is no doctor's office. The center--affiliated with the Christian Action Council's Care Net, a nonprofit organization based in Sterling, Virginia--has no staff members with medical training. Rather, any woman who drops by is offered a free over-the-counter pregnancy test and a good dose of antiabortion counseling using plastic fetuses, pamphlets and videos...
Schweitzer, who collaborated with McConnell on the book, stumbled into being an intelligence operative. From his librarian's job he moved to the U.N., serving as a relief official in Indochina until 1983, when he organized a nonprofit charity to aid Vietnamese boat people. Six years later, during a trip to Hanoi to arrange a hospital visit, he asked his Vietnamese hosts on a whim if he could tour the Central Military Museum, which housed the Defense Ministry's war artifacts. The Vietnamese agreed, permitting him to browse through displays of uniforms and equipment taken from members...
...Nonprofit Centers for Learning in L.A. and New York; books like A Return to Love...
...conservative sponsors like the Coors Brewing Co. and advertisers who run the gamut from Magnavox to a firm that sells Rush Limbaugh commemorative beer steins. In addition, most organizations sponsor their own shows. The weekly Gingrich hour, which costs $125,000 a year, is paid for by his nonprofit Progress & Freedom Foundation...