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...Voices Louder Than Words," sponsor of the benefit, is a nonprofit organization inspired by the book of the same name. The $12,000 raised from last night's benefit will go to the Cambridge YWCA Homeless Family Residence Program, the Family-to-Family project, and the Somerville Homeless Coalition...
...struggled in vain to have children. "We tried everything from fertility treatments to laser surgery," recalls Ann. "Nothing worked." The avenue of adoption seemed blocked: Fred, 53, was considered too old for fatherhood by U.S. adoption agencies. Then the Redmans discovered Los Ninos International Adoption Center, a Houston-based, nonprofit organization that helps Americans adopt youngsters in Latin America. Within months the Redmans arrived in La Paz, Bolivia, where they were introduced to baby twin sisters and their Indian mother, who was offering the infants for adoption because she was too poor to take good care of them...
...search for adoptive children, they ask, when the same money could be dispensed as foreign aid to help keep Third World children at home? "We're exploiting poor countries' resources the same as we have exploited other resources," argues Chris Hammond, director of a British association of government and nonprofit adoption agencies. "In most developing countries a pair of hands is a significant resource. Removing them handicaps the country...
What is the perfect gift for a high-caliber woman? Perhaps a subscription to Women & Guns, a new publication put out by the nonprofit Second Amendment Foundation in Bellevue, Wash. Says Sonny Jones, editor of the female-staffed monthly: "I don't want to encourage women to buy guns but to promote training and education for those who already have them...
Such relationships need not be monogamous. In addition to its tie-in with MCI, the nonprofit Nature Conservancy recently established a partnership with the profit-seeking Nature Co., which sells art, maps and gadgets designed with ecological themes through 60 stores and a catalog with a circulation of 4 million. The National Wildlife Federation has licensed its logo for use on toys, T shirts and stuffed animals at K-Mart, Sears and other stores across the U.S. The N.W.F. also allows American Greetings Co. to sell a series of birthday cards made from recycled paper and sporting pictures of endangered...