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...program is not without its powerful supporters, both in and out of the classroom. Silicon Valley, whose executives Gore is ardently courting, is particularly enthusiastic about the idea of wiring the vast, untapped market that Andrew Blau of the Benton Foundation, a nonprofit group that studies the social impact of technology, describes as "like China within our borders." To enlarge this new customer base, companies have offered seminars, free software and help with the applications that schools must make to receive the funding. Industry sources have estimated that $2 billion spent on wiring schools produces as much as $6 billion...
...president of her family's foundation,Hauser and her husband Gustave provided Harvardwith $10 million to establish the interfacultyHauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations lastyear. The Hausers gave $13 million to the LawSchool...
...groups that allowed her to communicate directly with people around the world who have the same condition. "I've talked to people from Japan, Sweden, Germany, England and Israel," Denhardt says. Emboldened by her online contacts, Denhardt has decided to get a business degree and plans to start a nonprofit group to act as a liaison between patients and doctors. Says Teresa, who now e-mails her mom from a new home in Paris: "The Internet changed her life. I'm very proud...
...although the newest angiogenesis inhibitors have relatively few side effects, at least compared with radiation or chemotherapy, they are not risk free. "Lack of toxicity in animals does not mean there is no toxicity to humans," says Dr. William Li, medical director of the Boston-based Angiogenesis Foundation, a nonprofit clearinghouse for information on the latest research...
...Mohan Sawhney of Northwestern University, "you'll begin to see far more targeted commerce." Sites that are community centered, he says, will eventually attract clients "that will be the Procter & Gambles of the world." In some cases that is already happening. Last summer Mary Furlong, the founder of the nonprofit Senior Net educational centers, created the definitely-for-profit Third Age and thinks of it as "my grandmother's front porch," a place where people gather to hear news and swap information. With a database of more than 5,000 pages of free and discounted products and services and sponsors...