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Richard G. Schneider, who publishes the nonprofit quarterly from his home in Boston, started the Review five years ago as a forum for gay and lesbian scholarship. The Review has garnered a national reputation and attracted contributors from Rep. Barney Frank '61-'62 (D-Mass.) to Camille Paglia...
Harvard left the ivory tower of academia for the street fighting world of Wall Street takeovers and won. Two weeks ago, Harvard finally outbid its competitor for White River Corporation in what is believed to be the largest acquisition ever by a nonprofit institution...
Paquette attributes Harvard's ability to continue upping its offer to its status as a nonprofit organization, which exempts it from paying taxes on its earnings--including profits from White River...
Inevitably, Brother Bill, whose small stipend of $20,000 is funded by the nonprofit Catholic Charities, has his critics. But not many. Some say he goes too easy on gangsters who recount their murderous acts to him without fear of betrayal, who borrow money from him and never pay him back, who curse, smoke and drink around him as if he were one of them. "He gives all his attention to the wrong people," gripes a Cabrini resident...
Backers of diversity are taking notice. Texas Appleseed, a nonprofit consortium of lawyers, provides 50 scholarships to minority undergraduates to attend a 16-session Kaplan LSAT course. Kaplan has set up a similar voucher program in California. The New York City-based Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund offers students at six historically black universities Princeton Review courses for $375--half the regular price. "In the short term," Sharlot says, "nothing could be more helpful in increasing the pool of competitive minority applicants than access to the prep courses." He may be right: last summer 16 students took a Princeton Review course...