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...make the discovery available to millions, Harvard is partnering with Medicine in Need (MEND), a Cambridge nonprofit led by Edwards that seeks to improve drug delivery to the developing world...
Edwards and Gates are at the cutting edge of an effort to overcome that dilemma by providing universities with a third option: strings-attached grants from nonprofit organizations focused on developing-world diseases...
...Kelo decision awoke a sleeping tiger," says Leonard Gilroy, a senior policy analyst with the Reason Foundation, a public policy research nonprofit. "People realized their property rights weren"t fixed. When you look at what"s happened to property rights over the last 100 years there has been a fundamental erosion of property rights. That happens all the time, and the problem is that landowners are not compensated for those impacts...
...between them as much as anyone in public health,” said the school’s dean, Barry R. Bloom. Foege is a former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and a founding member of the Task Force for Child Survival and Development, a nonprofit group based in Atlanta, Ga. At the CDC, he devised the concept of “containment vaccination,” which contributed greatly to the eradication of smallpox. Fauci serves as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. His work has focused primarily...
...nonprofits is by looking for charities with low operating costs. Ask a nonprofit what percentage of the budget covers overhead and how much the CEO takes as salary. But you should be wary of smaller nonprofits that have been around a while and have grown tired or obsolete, says Robert Egger, author of Begging for Change, a book about nonprofits. Egger's advice: look for an organization with some turnover at the board level, a sign that new ideas are welcome. But you should probably avoid an organization with persistent turnover in management, a sign that the charity is ineffective...