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Norplant is essentially an old contraceptive in a new package. Developed by the Population Council, an international nonprofit research group, and Wyeth- Ayerst Laboratories, a division of American Home Products Corp. of Philadelphia, the method prevents pregnancy by using the hormone progestin, which with estrogen is the active ingredient in most birth-control pills. Norplant consists of six progestin-filled silicone tubes, each about the size of a matchstick. In a simple 15-minute procedure, a doctor inserts the tubes just beneath the skin in a woman's upper arm. Once in place, the tiny cylinders start releasing progestin into...
...city's Coalition for the Homeless. Even Washington's most ebullient convert to the cause -- Housing Secretary Jack Kemp -- is full of ideas but inevitably short of funds. His latest initiative, Homeownership and Opportunity for People Everywhere, would promote home ownership for low- income tenants and support local nonprofit groups. But its total funding is only $750 million next year. The 1987 McKinney Act allotted $596 million this year to states and cities for homeless programs. But even that amount pales next to what the cities are spending. New York City's human-resources administration will spend $146.4 million...
...Involve the private sector. Private corporations allied with pioneering charities can make public money stretch a long way. In 1986-87 some 460 nonprofit community groups created 23,120 units of low-income housing, compared with nearly...
Commercial and nonprofit direct mailers have to work much harder than members of Congress to address their pitches to specific audiences. To sing their siren songs effectively, they rely on a bewildering variety of list compilers, list brokers and list managers. In short, the mail-order industry is teeming with precisely the sort of people Montgomery Ward set out to eliminate: middlemen...
...name-trading game is now an estimated $3 billion business in itself. Rental lists, which cost anywhere from $50 to $150 per 1,000 names, are bartered not only by most mail-order houses and many nonprofit organizations but also by a few public utilities and telephone companies. List owners typically pay a 20% commission to a list broker and 10% to a list manager. Even with those overheads, some concerns make more money from the rental of their lists than from the sale of their products...