Word: nonprofit
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Leaders of the nonprofit Commission for the Creation of the Yanomami Park were jubilant, praising Collor for his courage. "This is the best news of my life," Claudia Andujar, the commission's coordinator, said last week. The Yanomami, the largest tribe still living in a primitive state in the Americas, offered no comment...
...rate of inflation. What used to be upheld as things of beauty or objects of veneration are increasingly traded like zero- coupon bonds or pork-belly futures. According to U.S. government estimates, "art theft is a $2 billion-a-year business," says Constance Lowenthal, executive director of the nonprofit New York-based International Foundation for Art Research. "But it could be much larger." Trace, a three-year-old British magazine that tracks art crimes, reckons the value worldwide at $6 billion a year...
...Voices Louder Than Words," sponsor of the benefit, is a nonprofit organization inspired by the book of the same name. The $12,000 raised from last night's benefit will go to the Cambridge YWCA Homeless Family Residence Program, the Family-to-Family project, and the Somerville Homeless Coalition...
...struggled in vain to have children. "We tried everything from fertility treatments to laser surgery," recalls Ann. "Nothing worked." The avenue of adoption seemed blocked: Fred, 53, was considered too old for fatherhood by U.S. adoption agencies. Then the Redmans discovered Los Ninos International Adoption Center, a Houston-based, nonprofit organization that helps Americans adopt youngsters in Latin America. Within months the Redmans arrived in La Paz, Bolivia, where they were introduced to baby twin sisters and their Indian mother, who was offering the infants for adoption because she was too poor to take good care of them...
...search for adoptive children, they ask, when the same money could be dispensed as foreign aid to help keep Third World children at home? "We're exploiting poor countries' resources the same as we have exploited other resources," argues Chris Hammond, director of a British association of government and nonprofit adoption agencies. "In most developing countries a pair of hands is a significant resource. Removing them handicaps the country...