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Apart from its unprecedented success, A Chorus Line played a vital role in sustaining Papp's nonprofit New York Shakespeare Festival, the premier off- Broadway showcase. During its 15 years, the show generated some $277 million in revenues, of which $37.8 million was paid to N.Y.S.F. as producer. This year, however, it began losing almost $50,000 a week. "I don't know how we will replace the revenue from this show," said Papp, "but I know there will never be another A Chorus Line...
Street News is published on a nonprofit basis. Persons, who employs a staff of 19, began paying himself a modest annual salary of $35,000 in January. As for his salespeople, their earnings depend on the number of papers they can hawk. They buy copies for approximately 25 cents apiece, sell them for 75 cents and keep the difference. In addition, every paper sold earns the vendor an extra nickel that is deposited in a special savings account set aside for rent. So far, says Persons, 200 of the salespeople have saved enough money to secure cheap rooms or apartments...
...disks, thanks to a new wave of computer-literacy programs designed with the elderly user in mind. The largest of these is SeniorNet, the first national organization dedicated to bringing senior citizens into the information age. Since it was founded at the University of San Francisco in 1986, the nonprofit organization has trained nearly 4,000 of the elderly at 26 sites in the U.S. and Canada, including doctors' offices, retirement homes, senior centers, high schools and colleges. "We're evangelists for the idea that older adults are very capable users of computers," says Executive Director Mary Furlong, an associate...
...Turner the entrepreneur is increasingly being upstaged by Turner the political activist. In 1985 he founded the Better World Society, a nonprofit organization that produces and distributes programming on environmental issues. A year later, he launched the Goodwill Games to foster better relations between the superpowers following two Olympic boycotts. TNT has aired such advocacy films as Nightbreaker, an antinuclear drama starring Martin Sheen, and Incident at Dark River, in which Mike Farrell (who produced the movie) plays a man whose daughter is killed by toxic waste dumped by a local factory. Currently in production is Captain Planet, a cartoon...
...Hyde founded the nonprofit Institute for Range and the American Mustang in order to create sanctuaries -- retirement homes of sorts -- where unadoptable wild horses could once again roam freely. He convinced BLM that with foundation and public funds he could establish a self-sustaining sanctuary within three years. IRAM's first project was a 12,600-acre sanctuary in the Black Hills of South Dakota that opened last year. Tourists pay $15 to view 300 mustangs running on high plateaus of ponderosa pine. The project makes Hyde smile. "The horses are finally getting over their depression," he says. "They...