Word: nonprofit
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Some of the critics have suggested that Harvardconsider investing in a firm like the widelyrespected Common Fund for Nonprofit Organizations,a Connecticut-based cooperative that manages thepooled endowments of several hundred colleges,universities and independent schools...
...growers nor plant workers had found much success in organizing or in finding powerful advocates. "The workers didn't feel they could organize and maintain their jobs, because many plants have an economic stranglehold on their towns," says Kelly Mitchell-Clark, an official of the Women's Project, a nonprofit group in Little Rock that conducted a study of the state's poultry belt. "Sometimes it's a big deal for these people just to be able to get off the processing line to go to the bathroom...
...tons of bottles from neighborhood collections. In the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, haulers have run out of storage space and are incinerating some recyclable goods. "It's like having your suitcase all packed with no place to go," laments Amy Perry, solid-waste program director for the nonprofit Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group...
...Responsive Fathers Program is part of a study being conducted by Public/ Private Ventures, a nonprofit public-policy research organization that focuses on youth development. Using five other similar programs from across the country, PPV launched the study last year to try to discover whether it could get young unwed fathers to come forward and seek help, identify their needs, and direct them to the services they require. The group aims to provide information to policymakers responsible for family welfare programs so that as they debate decisions concerning young mothers, they will keep young fathers in mind as well...
...boomer producers who are responsible for Big River, Into the Woods, The Secret Garden and the hit revival of that epitome of old Broadway, Guys and Dolls. The canny group and some partners quietly funneled $500,000 in "enhancement funds" into a seven- week run at Southern California's nonprofit La Jolla Playhouse of a new version of Tommy, the original and still champion rock opera...