Word: nonprofit
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...sorry state of birth control in America is underscored in a report prepared by the Population Crisis Committee, a nonprofit research group based in Washington. The committee found not only that Americans have fewer contraceptive options than their counterparts in most developed countries, but also that contraceptive devices are more expensive and more difficult to obtain in the U.S. than in some parts of the Third World...
That discussion goes on at colleges everywhere. "It seems like date and acquaintance rape is the rule rather than the exception on campuses today," says Frank Carrington, a consultant for Security on Campus, a nonprofit group based in Gulph Mills, Pa. "And the way the universities treat it is to cover up and protect their image while a tremendous outrage is building...
What convinced Scott was an article in Zillions, a consumer report for kids that evaluates everything from peanut butter to video games. The bimonthly magazine (circ. 250,000) is published by the nonprofit Consumers Union, which has been doling out advice to adults in its Consumer Reports for the past 55 years. The difference is that Zillions delivers buying tips with savvy humor and snazzy graphic designs and that the products are tested by an unusual group of experts: the kids themselves. Says Peggy Charren, president of Action for Children's Television: "Zillions figured out how to attract youngsters...
...teaching fellow employees how to separate their trash for recycling. More than eight tons of high-grade ^ white paper are now recovered every month from our headquarters building in New York City. About 11,000 bottles and cans -- each redeemable for 5 cents -- are collected for We Can, a nonprofit organization that aids the city's homeless. "This is a serious program," says Green Team leader Laura Conboy, TIME's opeations manager. "It is going to be part of how we work here forever...
...distinction between the two organizations is crucial. Federal law prohibits officials from accepting payment for travel, lodging and other expenses related to an official trip unless paid for by a charitable or educational organization. According to an official statement, the federation is a nonprofit trade group engaged in lobbying on "state and federal legislation." For such an organization to pay his wife's expenses, a White House counsel conceded, would be "tantamount to a gift...