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...tons of bottles from neighborhood collections. In the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, haulers have run out of storage space and are incinerating some recyclable goods. "It's like having your suitcase all packed with no place to go," laments Amy Perry, solid-waste program director for the nonprofit Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group...
...Responsive Fathers Program is part of a study being conducted by Public/ Private Ventures, a nonprofit public-policy research organization that focuses on youth development. Using five other similar programs from across the country, PPV launched the study last year to try to discover whether it could get young unwed fathers to come forward and seek help, identify their needs, and direct them to the services they require. The group aims to provide information to policymakers responsible for family welfare programs so that as they debate decisions concerning young mothers, they will keep young fathers in mind as well...
...boomer producers who are responsible for Big River, Into the Woods, The Secret Garden and the hit revival of that epitome of old Broadway, Guys and Dolls. The canny group and some partners quietly funneled $500,000 in "enhancement funds" into a seven- week run at Southern California's nonprofit La Jolla Playhouse of a new version of Tommy, the original and still champion rock opera...
...meantime, creative black entrepreneurs like John Bryant are filling the gap. Just days after the riots, Bryant formed Operation Hope, a nonprofit community-development organization. The next day he secured the $370,000 needed to rebuild a South Central landmark, a pharmacy owned by Gilbert Mathieu, destroyed in the riots. Bryant's goal for the next year is to finance similar deals for 100 businesses with average loans of $200,000. "If we don't create other Gil Mathieus, then we shouldn't be around," he says. Jenkins, for one, is confident they will. "In the '60s," he says...
Laws governing the actions of nonprofit organizations forbid the University from endorsing individual candidates...