Word: nonprofit
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...such products as toilet paper, light bulbs, laundry cleaners and facial tissues that meet the criteria established by a panel of scientists. "Our objective is to help American consumers vote with their pocketbooks on environmental issues," says former Earth Day chairman Denis Hayes, who is chief executive of the nonprofit, Washington-based Green Seal project...
...getting entangled in one of the most emotional issues of all: abortion. AT&T has become embroiled because of its annual donations to Planned Parenthood, which amounted to $50,000 last year. The company decided in March to stop funding the group, after 25 years of support, because the nonprofit group's "political advocacy" of abortion had grown. But at AT&T's annual meeting in Los Angeles last week, antiabortion shareholders lost a resolution that would have forbidden the telecommunications giant to give money to organizations "that endorse, counsel or perform abortions...
...hallway rumors, infighting, standoffs, bluffs and clashes between the fiercely independent editor and his predecessor, Gilbert Grosvenor, now president and chairman of the National Geographic Society. Scion of the founding family, Grosvenor follows in the footsteps of his great-grandfather, Alexander Graham Bell, in running the world's largest nonprofit scientific and educational institution...
...dilapidated garage in New York City's South Bronx would not be most people's idea of an office. But for Michael Schedler and his partners in Bronx 2000, a nonprofit development corporation, such an unlikely site became the first home eight years ago for a booming business: the R2B2 recycling plant...
...sponsor of the hamster hunt was Earthwatch, a nonprofit organization conceived in the early 1970s by Brian Rosborough, a lawyer. Since scientists always need more manpower for their studies and never have enough money, Rosborough reasoned that they would welcome paying "Earth patriots" eager to spend a week or two on scholarly expeditions in remote places. At first Earthwatch concentrated on the physical sciences, such as the study of volcanoes and eclipses, but as public interest grew in things natural, the organization acquired a strong environmental flavor. This year more than 3,000 EarthCorps volunteers will head...