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During the final week of May, four HBS students will head to Minneapolis to meet with leaders of the Homeownership Preservation Foundation, a nonprofit organization that provides counseling to those who may be faced with foreclosure. The group will work with leaders of the foundation, which currently has a small staff, to analyze its operations and to create a low-budget marketing plan aimed at removing the stigma of foreclosure...
...concentrated under the auspices of any single force. Google Book Search really does not change the game. It merely translates the outdated paradigm of musty tomes and card catalogs to the internet age. The library we want is not a public library funded by the government or a benevolent nonprofit, but rather a decentralized network of peer-to-peer sharing, with works freely copied, perhaps even illegally copied. So file your objections, bibliophiles! For the sake of libraries, for the sake of books, for freedom’s sake.—Staff Writer Sanders I. Bernstein can be reached...
...participate in processes similar to e-recruiting. In light of this problem, the college can be instrumental in helping students learn about them anyway. The Center for Public Interest Careers at Harvard does just that. CPIC offers students the opportunity to secure internships at a broad spectrum of nonprofit and public-service organizations in many major cities throughout America. Many of the organizations with which CPIC is involved are small, and students would not hear of them otherwise. Last year, 76 Harvard students found summer internships through CPIC, and there is no sign that interest in CPIC?...
...student working for his local congressman. Commendably, Harvard has taken great steps to address this inequality. The IOP’s Summer Stipend Program offers a stipend to students working in low- or non-paying summer jobs in government, public interest groups, non-governmental organizations, political organizations, campaigns, and nonprofit groups. In addition, CPIC pays the students for whom it finds employment. Such financial assistance means that students are able to work where they want, and they need not feel they have to take a higher-paying job in which they are less interested...
...Cambridge residents cannot vote in Boston elections, he thought last night’s event was important because it reached a student population that sends many volunteers to Boston through the Phillips Brooks House Association. Yoon, who moved to Boston in the 1990s, served as housing director for the nonprofit Asian Community Development Corporation before running for office in 2005. —Staff writer Sarah J. Howland can be reached at showland@fas.harvard.edu...