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...privately, to contribute to charitable, religious, scientific and educational activities of their choice. Such giving supports the American pluralism that allows all kinds of people to take the initiative in all kinds of activities. In reality, the tradition that has produced the innumerable institutions that are sometimes called the nonprofit sector lies at the very heart of our intellectual and spiritual strivings. The deductibility of charitable donations has been only an expression of that larger philosophy...
...that old bird for years," said Andrus as he removed his battered stetson and stooped to peer through a telescope at a golden eagle perched like a gargoyle on a precipice. The eagle was not the only acquaintance Andrus renewed on the trip, which was organized by a private, nonprofit group called the Nature Conservancy to bring attention to the encroachments of civilization on the Snake. Earlier that day, the Secretary and Actor-Conservationist Robert Redford, a longtime ally who joined Andrus on the trip, had watched as a pair of prairie falcons performed aerobatics against a background of vertical...
...project for 25 fifth-and sixth-graders at Houston's Luther Burbank elementary school, parents clamored successfully for their own afterschool classes. Louisiana State University is offering a full-time course in the medium for undergraduates. At North Adams, Mass., an institute sponsored by the Hoosuck Corporation, a nonprofit organization that promotes design-oriented manufacturing businesses, has just completed a two-week, $330 class in rudimentary technique; it was sold out. Another course in April will teach painting on glass; in June under Albinas Elskus, there will be a course in design. At the Rhode Island School of Design...
Sister Ruth Carter Stapleton, 47, is doing very well as an author. Sales of her two books, The Gift of Inner Healing and The Experience of Inner Healing, amount to some 185,000 hard-cover copies. Her estimated $160,000 income is turned over to Stapleton's nonprofit religious corporation, Behold, Inc. Jimmy's other sister, Gloria Carter Spann, 51, reportedly received a $50,000 advance to compile a book of her mother's letters from India, Away from Home: Letters to My Family...
...months ago, then promised refinancing and resuscitation for the magazine in 1978. WomenSports, founded by Tennis Queen Billie Jean King and Husband Larry in 1974, was bought by Charter two years ago. The Kings may now reclaim ownership and publish a less ambitious version, perhaps as a deliberately nonprofit venture under their Women's Sports Foundation...