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...from it. This fall Mihaly moved to Mozambique and dedicated himself to fighting poverty. But he carried a new weapon in his battle against social ills: aggressive business skills, taught in a new program at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College that deals specifically with nonprofits. "There are a lot of really well-intentioned, good-hearted people working in nonprofits," says Mihaly, "but they're not always the best-run organizations. The nonprofit world could benefit from better management...
...host institution just to offer personal observations...of the gift,” said Cole. “They know perfectly well what a wonderful donation has been made....They deeply appreciate the act of giving,” she said. While HCL typically gives deaccessioned books to a nonprofit organization that redistributes them to organizations and institutions, HCL librarians realized that the value of this collection came not from the individual books, but from the collection as a whole, according to Beth S. Brainard, HCL’s director of communications. Cheng was aware of the need for such...
...says, “all the House masters were skeptical. But after he went in there and made his report, everyone went for it. He did such an amazing job convincing the committee.”Supporters say that Riley, who is the director of Harvard Best Buddies, a nonprofit organization that serves individuals with intellectual disabilities, also has a reputation for being a strong leader. “Annie activates people. I never doubt Annie’s sincerity and earnestness. Whether it be disability issues or the UC, Annie means every word she says,” says...
...pioneering as the lab work is the business triangle Keasling has forged linking the university; Amyris Biotechnologies, a company he co-founded; and OneWorld Health, a nonprofit drug company. "This is one of those 'only in Berkeley' stories," says Keasling, laughing. "No one is going to make any profit out of this." Berkeley, which owns the rights to Keasling's technology, has agreed to give it away for nonprofit use. The Amyris staff is working to commercialize the technology. OneWorld Health hopes to be manufacturing the drug within five years...
Over the past year, a team of lawyers, approached by the nonprofit Innocence Project, spent thousands of pro bono hours conducting interviews, gathering documents and asking experts to compare the confessions of the sailors with the crime-scene evidence. What the team compiled was a laundry list of inconsistencies that it hopes will be enough to sway Warner just as the Governor is about to leave office and possibly make a run for the Democratic presidential nomination. Warner just last week spared the life of death-row inmate Robin Lovitt, citing the destruction of DNA evidence that might have cleared...